A couple of times in response to the “Bush kept us safe” people, I have said that we have no idea whether Bush kept us safe or not because we have no idea how many terrorists entered our nation legally and illegally during Bush’s eight years. And we have no idea what plans they might have been working on for years, as the 9/11 hijackers prepared for years.
Nothing can be said about who kept us safe since Bush and at least his two predecessors deliberately refused to enforce our borders or our immigration laws beyond some token level for PR purposes.
We don’t know who kept us safe, or not. And it’ll be more years before we can say with any confidence.
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