Why has U.S. been spared?

Orlando Sentinel ^ | 08 July 2005 | Peter A. Brown

[Lando Lincoln]

The London bombing once again begs the question: Why haven't terrorists struck the United States in the past four years?

Certainly the effects of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are still felt by Americans.

Unfortunately, terrorists have succeeded in changing how we live our daily lives.

Americans worry more about being blown up now than when thousands of Soviet ICBMs with multiple nuclear warheads were pointed at the United States.

These days, we live under the constant fear of being the next victim of a random act, a mentality that makes us more fearful and less generous to strangers and forces changes in behavior that cost us all time and money.

Nonetheless, it is useful to ponder why the bad guys haven't struck within the United States itself since 9-11.

It certainly is not because Osama & Co. hate us less than they once did.

[Alberta's Child]

If I were a Canadian you might have a point.

[Alberta's Child]

On another thread you implied that you believe that the WOT is being prolonged by us for corporate purposes.

Not just "corporate purposes," mind you -- but any number of purposes (public and private sectors alike). Do you think the law enforcement industry in this country would ever allow the U.S. to "win" the "war on drugs?"

I think that you can take the girl out of Canada but it is clear that you can't take Canada out of the girl.

I ain't a Canadian, and I ain't a girl. ;-)

[trisham]

I don't think the notion of a "deal" between the U.S. and Osama bin laden is too far-fetched. Remember that his primary complaint against the U.S. was that our military presence on the "sacred soil" of the Arabian Peninsula amounted to some kind of outrageous sacrilege against Islam. Fast forward from 9/11 to July of 2005 . . . in less than four years, we have a situation where our military forces are being removed from Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden has never been found. I'm not suggesting that this is exactly what has transpired, BTW -- I just presented as a very realistic possibility

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If you have any proof of your "notion", feel free to present it.

[airborne]

To ask "Why have we been spared?" implies that the fight is over.

It isn't. So we haven't.

[wtc911]

Canadian to the core, must suck. Too bad for you.

MacArthur got money in 1942 so Bush cut a deal with OBL, something you call a "very realistic possibility". I ask again, where do people like you come from? I ask now, what the heck are you doing here?

[wtc911]

I ain't a Canadian, and I ain't a girl. ;-)

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Had me fooled on both counts.

[Alberta's Child]

In his memoirs, General Giap admitted that the North Vietnamese Army could have never beaten the US and ARVN forces on the battlefield. He simply had to hold out until the American left and war protestors forced political change, and for the US to abandon the war.

After the war General Giap also pointed out that the North Vietnamese were planning to fight a war against the U.S. that would last for 35 years. The eyes of U.S. officials popped out of their heads when they heard that one -- they knew that the short attention span of the American public (even back then) would never allow for that kind of ordeal.

[longtermmemmory]

(s)Michael Moore told him so and you can prove the negative wrong.(/s)

[Final Authority]

Read the word "may"? That is a problem for many on these threads, they can't read English.

Now if you are saying that GWB doesn't have the 'nads to do what many of us are calling for him to do in a situation of that premise, then just say so, if you aren't, then explain.

[durasell]

My neighbor's cousin's friend had an uncle who used to tinker in his garage all the time. One day he invented an engine that ran on chicken fat and toe nail clipppings. A few months later he was never seen again...

[Alberta's Child]

If you were paying attention, you might have noticed the smoke was jet black, not the paler steam diluted color that you get when water actually makes it to a fire. Interesting coincidence isn't it? A common laborer shows up a day or two before a major terrorist event, and the emergency equipment malfunctions right on cue?

That's not exactly correct. If you were paying attention, you might have noticed that the smoke from the first tower actually had turned to the pale steam-diluted color you mentioned. The smoke turned black again when the second tower was hit -- which indicates to me that the water pressure simply wasn't sufficient to support the sprinkler systems in BOTH buildings at the same time.

[MarMema]

Because they are quietly invading US politics instead.

[Stashiu]

The jihadists themselves, have no real hope in winning a fighting war against the West. For sure, those who are rabidly islamist are being used to do some damage. The realistic goals are to achieve with limited engagements to change public opinion and hence policy in the target countries.

As has been mentioned before, the North Vietnamese used this strategy well with the help of the US leftists. Our enemies have learned that lesson well. Some of our own citizens have not.

Al Qaeda and its assorted gangs can just wait until a Democrat gets back in the White House, and it will be back to appeasement as usual.

[null and void]

That's not what I recall. I could be wrong, though.

[oh8eleven]

If I were a Canadian you might have a point.
I have a point, regardless of where you were born. Your thinking blather is clearly unAmerican.

[Alberta's Child]

If you have any proof of your "notion", feel free to present it.

1. Osama bin Laden masterminds the 9/11 attacks against the U.S., on the grounds that our military presence in Saudi Arabia is a religious outrage against Islam.

2. Within a year of 9/11, the U.S. has a plan in place to remove our military forces from Saudi Arabia.

3. Osama bin Laden makes his infamous prime-time television appearance during the 2004 presidential campaign -- in a setting that appears to be a far cry from a dark cave along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, mind you.

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

 "Possibly because the Islamicists have realized that attacking the US was counterproductive to their cause."

        MOAB


Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com

[fire and forget]

Bush has secretly informed OBL that he will ship every liberal in Congress to Gitmo if another attack occurs, effectively killing AQ and the insurgency.

[Stashiu]

Col. Bui Tin's remarks are that the Tet 68 combined efforts were considered an absolute failure. They were looking for a general uprising to take hold. They lost all ground that they had gained.

However, when Walter Cronkite and MSM were playing up that Tet 68 was a sign that 'the war is lost', they decided to wait it out. When the anti-war movement took off with the help of Fonda and Kerry, well, they new it was in the bag.

Public opinion, manipulated by the MSM and leftists, impacted policy. We walked away. Then came the bloodbath in SE Asia that the left said would not happen.

[trisham]

That's it?