It's not because a lot of people felt this would be a great idea, let's all spend 10 trillion dollars to blow ourselves up, but the incentives were such that we were finding ourselves -- this could have been worse.
E non perché tanta gente ritenesse  una grande idea spendere 10 mila miliardi di dollari  per saltare tutti in aria, ma gli incentivi erano tali  che ci siamo ritrovati a farlo. Sarebbe potuta andare peggio.