Well, I for one, ALSO don't believe there will be any attack on American soil. The initial attack by Al Qaeda operatives on 9-11 was to get the ball rolling. Then the existing political organizations are exploited, and instinctively figure out that they have to find their own place in the overall long-term future of Islam in America, then the multi-layered infiltration slowly takes shape and perfects itself, then Islam as a way of life becomes politically influential, and , well, you can well imagine the rest of the scenario. An attack on American soil by Jihadists would IMMEDIATELY undo ALL that other , distinctly "political" work. And while I acknowledge there are possibly DOZENS of warring factions of radical Islam, I think all of them are canny enough to know they are not going to be allowed to fight their "civil wars" on our soil, either, like they are presumably doing in Iraq/ NO. I am convinced the more serious threat is the political one. Bombs anywhere on American soil would turn the country upside down, and half the mosques would be burned down within 48 hours.
I guess I don't understand the logic. If Al Qaeda operatives are looking to infiltrate our political apparatus, then 9-11 was a catastrophic mistake. The number of Al Qaeda and their sympathizers arrested or deported since 9-11 pretty much destroyed that strategy, if it ever existed.
Incredibly, in spite of 9-11 - and with the help of C.A.I.R. and President Bush's love affair with "the religion of peace" - infiltration is no longer necessary. Islam is going to be as American as apple pie before these idiots are through, and how dare anyone question the loyalties of a politician just because he's Islamic. We're already there today, so...
IMHO, there are two different fields of play: 1) Al Qaeda, the terrorist group, which has no use for political systems and no sympathy for fellow Muslims who may die because of their actions, and 2) domestic groups that are sanitizing Islam through the press, and a political/social system that has been cowered into a fatal kind of moral relativism which dares not call a spade a spade, and expects no accountability from those peacable Muslims who have the grave responsibility of silencing the demonic clerics who preach death and destruction.
It's my belief that these two phenomena are acting independently of each other, but benefiting from each other's actions, just the same. So, color me skeptical of the notion that there won't be any more attacks on American soil. Bin Laden and Zawahiri are not receiving their marching orders from C.A.I.R. and al-Jazeera.
My brain only gives me this thought process: I want my president to have the authority to do what he can to make sure that there are no more attacks in America. The fact that we keep hearing about attacks being thwarted tends to make me not follow your line of thinking, but who knows? I also don't think the members of the religion of pieces really care where they fight jihad, just as long as infidels die.