Dudley Henriques wrote:
Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

Did we get all of them? No. But we did pretty well. And last time I
checked there hasn't been a terrorist attack on US soil since.


One thing I've always found interesting when someone puts out the "we
haven't been attacked since" card is that no one in the national media
to my knowledge anyway, has even come close to suggesting something so
basic to common sense that it defies explanation.

Anyone with half a strategic brain has to at least consider the fact
that the reason could very well be that they don't WANT to attack us
again...at least not yet.

Attacking us again would be counter productive to the gains they have to
be seeing happening as we speak through the splitting up of the country
into war and anti-war factions with politicians from both sides fighting
with each other for "control" of the government.

Even the common man in the street can see if they just open their brains
up and THINK, that attacking us again while all this is going on would
serve to UNITE the country rather than divide it!

I could be wrong, but this seems plausible to me. Why do something that
nails a few thousand people and really ****es off the rest of the people
, when you can sit back and let the idiot politicians divide and destroy
the country for you?



If you believe AQ their goal with the 9/11 attack, the attack on the USS
Cole and their other actions was to get us and other western nations out
of the Mid-East. They failed, in fact the outcome was exactly the
opposite. And I can understand why they thought the way they did. During
the Clinton administration they attacked the WTC, the Cole and other
targets and the only response from the US was to launch a few cruise
missiles. They had no reason to think that 9/11 would have been any
different. Let's face it, there is no way in hell they thought those
towers would have fallen the way they did.

Please keep in mind that my post was about Afghanistan not Iraq. 20/20
hindsight is great and using it, attacking Iraq was probably a mistake.
The bigger mistake though was not putting enough boots on the ground to
keep AQ and other non-Iraqis out of Iraq once we did go in.