You completely misunderstood my post. Maybe I wasn't clear enough, so that's my fault. But come back in 3 years and then tell me how much of an accomplishment this "no attack on our soil since 9/11" thing is.
OK...fair enough, let's look at it your way.
- January 1993: two CIA staff killed outside agency headquarters in Langley, Va.
- February 1993: Six people killed at the World Trade Center.
- March 1994: an Orthodox Jewish boy killed on the Brooklyn Bridge.
- February 1997: a Danish tourist killed on the Empire State building.
- October 1999: 217 passengers killed on an EgyptAir flight near New York City.
That's 227 people killed on our soil by terrorists between 1993 and 2001; I include the EgyptAir flight because it originated on US soil, and carried American citizens who boarded the flight on American soil.
Now, discounting the war casualties in Iraq (that IS a war after all), and not taking into account the attack on September 11, I'd say that the Bush years are free of attacks while the Clinton years were full of them, so we HAVE been safer these past six years than we were the previous thirteen.
P.S. I'm not even mentioning that USS Cole or attacks on Americans and/or American interests outside the US during the same period of time.
Good morning.
"...come back in 3 years and then tell me how much of an accomplishment this "no attack on our soil since 9/11" thing is."
It won't mean squat if the DemocRATs replay the sad end of Vietnam by ending or limiting funding for the war
Embolden the Jihadists and we will be attacked. Jimmah Cahtuh must be beaming this morning.
Michael Frazier