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.
No es que muchos pensaran que era una gran idea gastarnos USD 10 billones  para volarnos por los aires, pero los incentivos eran tales que nos encontrábamos... podría haber sido mucho peor. Imagina que hubiera habido un primer ataque seguro.