Why has'nt the USA been attacked?

[Sandman]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Giving Bush kudos for this is like patting me on the back for keeping alligators out of the Staples Center. Can't really draw any correlation between my actions and the alligator free environment.

Regarding terrorists, we are not sure whether doing nothing (other than Afghanistan) would have been as successful... are we?

My thoughts exactly. I have a can of elephant repellent in the garage. It works great, 100% effective.

[AKIron]

The only thing we can be sure of is that the can of terrorist repellent used for 8 years prior to Bush was impotent.

[ravells]

I'm actually with lada on this one:

Gotta know your enemy's motivation to not create more enemy

Ravs

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by Horn
Afghanistan. No more Taliban support. Leadership scattered. Fear of the big U.S. boot coming down. Roaches scattering when the light is turned on.

Unfortunately, we chose to invade Iraq and we're actively recruiting for them after our bonehead moves in the prisons so the danger is probably greater than it ws before.
h

Careful...any deviation whatsoever from the GOP groupthink, and you'll be vilified as some pot-smoking, gay-marriage touting, pinko-commie leftist liberal pacifist...

[Red Tail 444]

Originally posted by ravells
I think it was 'Wired' magazine that wrote a really good article on 'nexus points' that people who mean a nation harm will hit. As we get more urbanised, we build up more and more of them - it's the downside of centralisation of resources. Be they water supplies, nuclear power plants, mass transport systems or whatever.

Even now these people are probably probing the weakspots of a nexus point that we don't expect or havn't thought of.

Ravs

Hmmm....Isint the nexus where Guinan told Picard they could find Captain Kir.....oops nevermind...wrong thread...

[Saintaw]

I have to agree with Iron on this one (*world falls appart*). No one in a plane now will let them try anything.

Oh, and Toad, technicaly they were terrorists too, not only Muslims

[muckmaw]

Sandman, MT and AKSWulfe...

How could the president have done a better job in the past 3 years?

I mean, could we have had -1 terrorist attacks in the US?

We've had ZERO!

Sandman, you are completely off base.

Doing nothing gave us 9/11.

You want to try that strategy again?

Some of you people are so full of blind hate, it is frightening.

[lada]

Originally posted by muckmaw

We've had ZERO!

 

well this could mean other things

for example here described terrorist as a bit overmodeled to you

if im not wrong, terrorist claimed to cause black out in NY

nobody deny it, nobody said hows possible that it happen....


naaah but prehistorical power lines in US are diferent story

[ravells]

Be patient, Muck.

They are.

Ravs

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

Doesn't matter, its all a rediculous guessing game that you want to turn into giving credit to someone or some administration because there has been an absence of something.

Like I said, after 1993 there were ZERO attacks on American soil until 9/11/2001. Thats NINE years, more than three times the length of time as the current absence of attacks on American soil.

Just because theres an absence of something, doesn't mean its been nullified by someone or a group of people... it just hasn't been repeated, YET.
-SW

[midnight Target]

Would you be just as willing to give Clinton credit in 1996? I mean why not? 3 years ZERO hits on our soil!

1997?
1998?
1999?

hmmmmmm?

[Sandman]

Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
Like I said, after 1993 there were ZERO attacks on American soil until 9/11/2001. Thats NINE years, more than three times the length of time as the current absence of attacks on American soil.

Not entirely true... Don't forget Oklahoma.

As for the lack of attacks on U.S. soil, I would hesitate to read too much into that one. Afterall, there has been no lack of attacks in Afghanistan or Iraq.

[AKS\/\/ulfe]

Right, but I'm presuming that the terrorist attacks on American soil thats being referred to are of the foreign type.

Otherwise, technically - there has been a terrorist strike within the US that lasted for damn near 30 days. Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad.
-SW

[Glasses]

I think that like it was said attacking the US in a scale of 9/11 would be much more difficult and more complicated, while in Europe and elsewhere there are softer targets to hit while the bigger plan develops, though I don't think people even with their PCennes in the US are being tolerant to suspicious behaviour from middle eastern  people, they know now people are more alert and are more pissy about it. It wouldn't be smart for them anyhow to attack now.

Like I said I predict we will see another coalition partner like Italy  for example get hit than the US ,though the Italians are being proactive about it and searching for these kinds of people before they strike .

[strk]

I think the current government should get props for preventing any more attacks.  Bush* included.  

after the 9-11 attacks I was franky expecting more from AQ.  I figured if they were able to mastermind the planes into the buildings then they would probably follow up with something really nasty - suitcase nukes in lower Manhattan during the confusion, for instance.  

But it never materialized and later I sort of felt like AQ were rutabagas - one trick wonders.  

But You can bet that US intelligence, law enforcement and military have been working their tails off to keep anything from happening again.  All the way up to the top - Dick Cheney himself hehe.  Seriously though that is probably the one thing Bush* hasn't screwed up (yet).