To: Mase
"We have not been attacked by terrorists within our borders since 9-11. If you had been asked on September 12, 2001 if we could go 3 1/2 years without another domestic terrorist attack, what would your answer have been?"
It's hard to determine since 9/11 has been the only major attack on the US in many years whether the terrorist organizations were very strong prior to 9/11 and have been weakened since or whether the terrorists got "lucky" on their initial strike and never had much of a power base.
You say that it is an easy question to answer and yet you didn't answer a single question about whether fewer or more terrorist attacks have occurred since the beginning of the war, how many terrorists exist, etc. These are not easy questions to answer and even have our top intelligence experts in a quandry as to the strength of al-qaeda, the number of forces arrayed against us etc. I am very glad the Bush administration has done a good job protecting america since 9/11. I do not (of course) know if this is a false sense of security or whether are borders and cities are really as protected as this long pause of terrorist activity implies. Since terrorist attacks are few and far between both prior and post 9/11 it is hard to determine.
To: Clorinox
You wrote:
"It's hard to determine since 9/11 has been the only major attack on the US in many years whether the terrorist organizations were very strong prior to 9/11 and have been weakened since or whether the terrorists got "lucky" on their initial strike and never had much of a power base."
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Pretty safe bet that they have been weakened considering they don't have their own country to plan and launch attacks from anymore and their leader lives in a cave. This speaks only to Al Qiada. There are many other terrorist organizations but their fate will be no different.
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You wrote:
"You say that it is an easy question to answer and yet you didn't answer a single question about whether fewer or more terrorist attacks have occurred since the beginning of the war, how many terrorists exist, etc. These are not easy questions to answer and even have our top intelligence experts in a quandry as to the strength of al-qaeda, the number of forces arrayed against us etc."
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It really does not matter how many terrorist attacks there are at this point in the war and I wouldn't draw any conclusions by comparing the number of attacks to the relative strength or weakness of the terrorists. I suspect, as they get more desperate, that they will do more desperate things. I do know that their communications and financing have been disrupted and that we are killing them every day. I also know that our intelligence is catching up from decades of abuse by liberals and will be of greater service as the war continues. As for how many of them there are out there.....well, there are a lot less than there were before 9-11 and I firmly believe that the call to jihad will draw a lesser response as more terrorists die and we finally stop the schools that supply the miscreants.
358 posted on
01/11/2005 3:49:20 PM PST by
Mase
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