The terrorist attack on US soil already happened at Fort Hood, by a muslim of course.
True, but when I think terrorist attack I think something long the lines of Mumbai, except in a mall or school (completely surprised it hasn’t happened yet, it’s too easy). Another kamikaze attack using our airliners to hit a city. Gassing subways, blowing up a train. Several simultaneous car bombs in pizza parlors. Something that actually makes people afraid to go about their every day life everywhere in the US because it could happen to them at any given moment (right now it could, but most are asleep and living back on 9/10).
Or worse...a small nuke or dirty bomb anywhere in a populated area on continental US soil.
A lone nut that targets a military base and deserves to be hung, and shot, without a trial, doesn’t strike fear and anger enough in the regular civilians to start screaming at the administration enough to warrant martial law against said civilians. That wouldn’t be enough.
Neither is a moron that couldn’t get his bomb to work right and just ended up burning off his pecker and getting his arse kicked by the other passengers. People laugh at that, not get scared and angry. Besides that, one plane? We’ve seen it before. We’re jaded.
Unless it’s really really bad regular civilians will watch on the evening news, then go back to their business in a day or so.
Obama needs something big to justify going to martial law, and have a good portion of the country, and politicians, to support him in it.