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Agreed, things are often not what they seem, most especially when any kind of intelligence operation is involved.

You can be sure that over the years some things have been stopped that we'll never hear about, possibly even over the past couple of weeks. Not merely temporarily averted by going on high alert, but with the individuals involved and/or their physical weapons put out of action (hopefully permanently).

I don't know if dropping to yellow is a huge gamble or not - it depends on how much they know about what was averted, what had caused the orange alert in the first place, and what kind of elevated alert the remaining sectors are still under. (Note that we probably don't know all of the details of what remains on elevated alert!).

However all intelligence is always a gamble to some extent - and it's unlikely we'd be able to prevent everything even if we're on Red. Hopefully whatever does get through isn't on the scale of some of what's been discussed with entire cities being destroyed etc.

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Yep I agree brucecw and to tell you the truth I'm amazed we have made it this far without getting hit. There's no way I can believe that they haven't tried to hit us again. Anyone who fights a war and has that many people following them wouldn't give us a breather for this long.

If your gonna show you are a formitable force then after an attack like 9/11 they would at least have to hit us (even in a number of small ways) again in a decent period of time to show they are that powerful.

Judging from all the chest beating that the al-jerky boys have been doing the past few months and nothing has seemed to happen I'm pretty sure 1 of 2 things have happened.

1.) The people they sent to hit us got scared and quit the op they were ordered to carry out.

2.) Most of the ones who were to carry out the ops are either in a jail cell or they are dead and are now one of the devils many gf's ;)

I'd much prefer #2 but I'll settle for #1 right now as well.