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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.

You're either being selectively forgetful or deliberately misleading.

For every Danish tourist killed at the Empire State Building in 1997 there was a shooting at the El Al counter at LAX in 2002.

For every crash of an EgyptAir flight in 1999 there are two homosexual black men (a Muslim and ~~an illegal immigrant~~ a foreign invader) shooting people at random in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. in 2002.

And for every Jewish kid killed on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994 there is an Iranian-born college student driving his car onto a crowded sidewalk on the campus of UNC Chapel Hill in 2006 while shouting "Allah Akbar!," "Osama is great!," "Rove, you ~~magnificent~~ bastard!" or something like that.

Oddly enough . . . the one thing just about all of these attacks (the ones you mentioned as well as mine) have in common is that the U.S. government -- under Democrat and Republican administrations alike -- has steadfastly refused to call them "acts of terrorism" under any circumstances.

Now you tell me just how effective this government has REALLY been in "fighting terrorism."