I look at the numbers and can come to no other conclusion. 2,996 dead on 9/11 = 4,474 US soldiers killed in Iraq, 1,762 US soldiers killed in Afghanistan, 111,983 Iraqi civilians killed, 8,813 Afghan civilians killed, hundreds of thousands of more maimed, over $1 trillion dollars spent. On the day I watched the towers fall I prayed we would be calm and rational. We were not. We cried out for blood, a gallon of their’s for a drop of ours. Today, for the first time, I am ashamed to be an American.