Why no more terrorist attacks in US?

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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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conservative answer: Becuase GWB is a great leader who prevented additional attacks.

liberal answer: Because the right-wing manufactured the threat of further terrorist attacks to promote their foriegn policy.

next question.

[Utah]

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Because the right-wing manufactured the threat of further terrorist attacks to promote their foriegn policy

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I never understood how people could be so absolutely stupid to think that the conservatives manufactured the threat of future attacks. The threat was/is real and it was/is obvious. Were we to think that 9/11 was a purely isolated attack and we had no fear of future attacks?

[andyfox]

Not manufactured, but it would be reasonable for leaders to accentuate or exaggerate the threat both for political reasons and because since they would be open criticism (not just political attack) if something happened because they had been either lax or "lax," I don't doubt they pushed the envelope a bit. This is SOP in such situations, as, for example, after WWII when the Repulbicans told Truman they would go along with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan but only if he "scared the hell" out of the country with his rhetoric. The threat from the Soviets was real, but not as dire or all-encompassing as Truman made it sound.

So my take is that the answer is a bit of both: our homeland security measures have worked, and the threat was probably not as great as it was made out to be. But we'll not know the truth for many years, until classified documents are made public. In that sense, revisionist history is often the more accurate history.

Regards,
Andy

[Utah]

I agree with most of your analysis. It is quite possible and probable that politicians exploited 9/11 and the ensuing fear to push their agenda or to make political gain. It is even possible that the Bush team has failed miserably in its attempt to fight the war of terror (although I would disagree).

I am simply saying that anyway you slice it the threat is very real and obvious. The crashing of multiple U.S. Airplanes is prima facia evidence of that.

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For what's it is worth I tend to agree that the threat was exaggerated somewhat for Political gain but mostly just out of fear and a desire to not see something similar happen again. That is I think people were geniuly afraid. Also I think the media had much to gain by also exaggerating the threat.

IMO it is pretty obvious that if the Democrates were in power they to would have exaggerated the threat for Political purposes. However, I think Politicians (Dems & Reps) do this not out of some evil intentions but because they believe what they are doing is best for the country. T

[ChristinaB]

We decided to make it easy for the terrorists. We brought US targets to their backyard, so that our people could be killed off quick and easy.

And it worked, thousands of Americans have been killed since 9/11. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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We decided to make it easy for the terrorists. We brought US targets to their backyard, so that our people could be killed off quick and easy.

And it worked, thousands of Americans have been killed since 9/11. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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So you are saying terrorist are really dumb and that going into Iraq was + EV.

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Perhaps it was not clear but I am not trying to bait the idealogues here but rather looking for serious answers to a question I was thinking about today.

[sirio11]

I wonder also what is the answer.

For example, there should be already in the US some terrorists, or crazy people that hates the US for that matter. What stop them to go to the local Mall and kill 20, 30 people? or 10 of them to do this at the same time in 10 large cities to create a national histeria?

Don't know how this administration policies can stop attacks like these.

I don't know the answer why nothing has happened, but maybe they are not that crazy.