Why no more terrorist attacks in US?

[bholdr]

i enjoyed our exchanges. congrats on the kid. i'm considering becoming an hour/week lurker too. i keep losing poker time to this forum, and even more to OOT. GL.

[Zeno]

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no, that's a massive oversimplification.

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Indeed. I agree. Thanks.

-Zeno

[Phat Mack]

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I remember after the World Trade Center attacks it was considered a virtual certainty by both conservative and liberal pundits that there would be additional attacks in US. Yet there have been none. Why?

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As Zeno pointed out, there have been terrorist attacks since the WTC, and there likely will be more. But if you are asking why no more from Al Qaeda, we'd have to know:

a) what they hoped to accomplish by the first attack;
b) if these goals were successful; and,
c) what would be accomplished by further attacks.

Al Qaeda has proven their ability to strike dramatically within the US, proven their ability to provoke a reaction, and proven that the US is, so far, unable, or too distracted, to bring them to justice. I'm not sure what Al Qaeda would gain from further strikes now, although that is not to say that some other organization won't jump on the terrorist bandwagon. I'm not even sure whether Al Qaeda is one of the major players in the terrorist scene, or whether the major players have anything to gain from striking the US.