This sounds like 100% BS to me. The US didn’t do — and still doesn’t do — anything to stop either the planning or the execution of terrorist acts. Planning can take place anywhere in the world and can be done on the back of a paper towel with a sharpie. Not much of an exxageration. And how possibly could US forces chasing people in the Afghan wilderness disrupt execution of a terror attack in the US? It is an absurd premise.
This is 100% propaganda. A dirty neocon warmonger lie.
Truth is that no operation can disrupt the planning and execution of acts of terror. Anyone with the brains of an average high school sophomore who could get a few thousand in funding and recruit a dozen or so volunteers could shut the US down. Literally. Shooting up malls full of Christmas shoppers in the Midwest and high school gyms in basketball season in the winter and starting forest fires all summer woujd get ‘er done. And no, you could easily avoid being arrested beforehand. Just avoid texting and emailing. Terrorists did just fine planning and executing attacks before electronic communications became all that.
Either this Sheik is too retarded to see this or this is neocon propaganda. Seems obvious to me which one it is.
What we didn’t do to prevent the terrorists from fighting us here instead of there was to secure the border and have ‘extreme vetting’ of the so-called ‘religion of peace’
Agree. This sounds like fake news, a psy-ops by those that want an endless war on terror so that they can get more security contracts for useless X Ray machines and more TSA perverts at the airports.
Are we supposed to believe these muzzies?
> Planning can take place anywhere in the world and can be done on the back of a paper towel with a sharpie.
I agree. Still I think it’s quite possible that the post-9-11 retaliation disrupted Al-Qaeda plans, those coming from the top. Actually it’s surprising how ineffective attacks in the United States have been since then, quite a drop-off from 2,996 dead. As you say, a handful of people making plans on the back of a paper towel could carry out most of the attacks that have taken place. The 9-11 attacks took training and coordination. Most lower level attacks don’t. The real danger, in my opinion, is nuclear terrorism, or something on that scale.
Independently of disrupting plans, though, I think it’s a good policy to make terrorists or those they support (and those who support them) pay a price for attacks against the United States. Al-Qaeda didn’t want the Taliban to be overthrown. We may not be able to protect ourselves, but we can let our enemies know that when they hurt us, we’ll hurt them, and we have more power than they do. If we go (through nuclear wars incited by nuclear terrorism), we’ll take everything they value with us (provided we don’t disarm ourselves so much that we can’t).