Number of attempted attacks at an all time high

[JPD]

Originally Posted by VMH2507

That's a funny one in view of the fact that 2 of the failed attempts were only "thwarted" by the ineptitude of the would be terrorists. It was clear that in those two cases homeland security had no knowledge of the would be terrorists. I guess we can continue to hope that the next ones are similarly inept.

And yet he was caught and taken into custody extremely quickly.

No government agency or police force, no matter how big or how well trained, is going to be able to prevent every single attempted attack.

[tb4000]

And we still ain't found Bin Laden yet. That **** up was on Bush's watch.

[AeroGuyDC]

Originally Posted by tb4000

And we still ain't found Bin Laden yet. That **** up was on Bush's watch.

We don't want to find Bin Laden. Finding him would put the President (any President) in the precarious position of explaining why combat operations in Afghanistan are still necessary. By not finding, we always have a back-burner reason to stay engaged in the Middle East.