gator80, I haven’t noticed anybody saying why they thought the continental USA hasn’t been attacked since 9/11.
Here are three possibilities:
1. In the days after 9/11 we rolled up the AQ network, that we had been watching before but not doing much about since after all they weren’t doing much and the ones we let run sometimes led us to new agents and such. Once we eliminated the ones in the USA and our allies eliminated the ones in their own countries, new ones haven’t really gotten a foothold.
2. AQ is following Napoleon’s maxim which goes “Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake.”. They did 9/11 and we did what they wanted us to. If they attack us again we might stop doing what they want and do something else instead. It makes sense for them not to hit us again unless our will to be stupid starts to lapse.
3. It was an inside job and our own administration or their supporters or Mossad or whoever did it to get us to attack iraq and to get support for the Bush administration. They achieved their objectives. But after all the spending and chickenguano we’ve endured for the administration to stop terrorism, if we got an effective attack now the US public would decide that the current administration is a bunch of stumblebums who can’t protect us from AQ no matter how much money they spend or civil rights they revoke. The first time we banded together behind Bush. The second time we wouldn’t. So it would be stupid to pull the same trick again.
Our government might have information that would tend to disprove one or more of these alternative possibilities. But if they do, they’re keeping it secret. I have no reason beyond sheer prejudice to discredit any of them.
gator80, I haven’t noticed anybody saying why they thought the continental USA hasn’t been attacked since 9/11.
Here are three possibilities:
1. In the days after 9/11 we rolled up the AQ network, that we had been watching before but not doing much about since after all they weren’t doing much and the ones we let run sometimes led us to new agents and such. Once we eliminated the ones in the USA and our allies eliminated the ones in their own countries, new ones haven’t really gotten a foothold.
2. AQ is following Napoleon’s maxim which goes “Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake.”. They did 9/11 and we did what they wanted us to. If they attack us again we might stop doing what they want and do something else instead. It makes sense for them not to hit us again unless our will to be stupid starts to lapse.
3. It was an inside job and our own administration or their supporters or Mossad or whoever did it to get us to attack iraq and to get support for the Bush administration. They achieved their objectives. But after all the spending and chickenguano we’ve endured for the administration to stop terrorism, if we got an effective attack now the US public would decide that the current administration is a bunch of stumblebums who can’t protect us from AQ no matter how much money they spend or civil rights they revoke. The first time we banded together behind Bush. The second time we wouldn’t. So it would be stupid to pull the same trick again.
Our government might have information that would tend to disprove one or more of these alternative possibilities. But if they do, they’re keeping it secret. I have no reason beyond sheer prejudice to discredit any of them.