Has there been another successful attack on the USA since 9/11?

Question

Well if (no) Then that Bush you hate so much must be doing something right for that not to be the case.

Answer 1

nope and yep he has been doin a good job

Answer 2

The fact that there have been no large scale or successful attacks does not imply that George W Bush is doing a good job. The US has rarely ever been attacked (only two serious threats in the past two centuries, the Invasion of Pearl Harbor and the Attack on The WTC), so with your same reasoning Richard Nixon was a superb president, when in fact he threatened the Constitution of the US. Just a week after 9/11 an anthrax scare occurred, with the case never being solved (but not pointing to any outside source).
Basically, just because no serious attacks have occurred against the US since the attack of 9/11/01 does not mean anything.
If you want to look at it another way, since then we have nearly equaled the amount of death in the WTC disaster with soldiers fighting in Iraq (not including those in Afghanistan, the source of militants most likely to have created the attacks of 9/11), the national debt is intensifying at a rate much higher than ever before, and yet ANOTHER war is on the brinks, as the Bush Administration is looking for more and more reasons to attack the nation of Iran.

Answer 3

1. There were NO attacks on that scale between 12/7/41 and 9/11/01 so that Clinton you hate so much must have done something right by your logic.

2. In fact, there have been plenty of attacks on U.S. INTERESTS and ALLIES around the world.

3. 3000 Soldiers killed in Iraq is NOT "something right".

4. The Clinton you hate so much presided over a Government that FOUND, CAUGHT, TRIED and PUNISHED the people responsible for the first WTC Bombing and the Oklahoma City Bombing.

5. Bush has NOT found Osama Bin Laden, and apparently does not care to.

6. Putting 1-5 aside for the sake of argument, I'd like to know what the "something right" is. More U.S. soldiers lost than on 9-11, a record deficit, alienating nearly every Country in the world, an ineffective Government in Iraq that can't account for Billions of dollars....I just don't see where the "something right" is. Feel free to enlighten me.

Answer 4

To sum up several other answers, your "question" is a logical fallacy. Just because there haven't been the attacks you're speaking of does not mean Bush has done something right. Two things that happen at the same time are not necessarily connected. Coca-Cola sales are up and birth rates are down, but that doesn't mean drinking Coke keeps you from having a baby.

There are way too many variables and causes involved in whether a certain organization decides to create a certain kind of attack for you to pinpoint one single person as getting the credit--especially when we have spent so much time, money and lives in Iraq instead of strenghtening our own country.

Answer 5

well... that's not exactly the best logic you're using there...

I've got my keys in my pocket and I haven't been mugged today... is it because I have my keys in my pocket?

probably not... it's probably because I live in a small town where no one ever gets mugged...

frankly... odds are the "paranoia" factor after 9-11 has stopped many more attacks than anything Bush has done... everyone is looking for terrorists and the slightest odd action rasies tons of alarms...

if everyone had this same sense of urgency over security before, there is NO WAY IN THE WORLD that the terrorists could have pulled off 9-11...

but we weren't really paying that much attention, which is all they needed...

now some things that Bush has done has helped... Afghanistan helped... parts of the patriot act helped... granted...

Iraq hasn't done much from what I can tell though...

Answer 6

Now cut that out! Anyone would have done the same things and more, but not a day late and a trillion dollars short bubba! Stop pushing this crap on us! He is a very inept man and president! It was not him that stopped the men at the bridge with the bombs?
Do you have a clue on how many a day we have stopped in terrorism since God knows when? Duh? Until you research that I suggest you stop talking about it! Besides that was just to wake us up that we needed to go and attack Iraq? Did you ever think of that bubba? Why are you people so gung ho and deaf dumb and blind? Look around it is the 21st century we have knowledge of many things from our Satellites duh? And just think about the power America has? We have Shuttles? Duh? Stealths? This was all a game of Risk? Get it and you are being stupified with this and you need to open your mind to all those dirty rotten politicians from all governments right now? They are all greedy and power hungry? And they will sign with the devil for power! Covert activities is this guy Dubya's game and that is cuz Daddy showed him how to play? Look at the right hand and the left hand is hidden doing something else, it is called diversionary tactics in politics to gain control over people, very elementary Watson!

Answer 7

Anthrax Scare

2002 June 14, Karachi, Pakistan: bomb exploded outside American consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 12. Linked to al Qaeda.
2003 May 12, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: suicide bombers killed 34, including 8 Americans, at housing compounds for Westerners. Al-Qaeda suspected.
2004 May 29–31, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: terrorists attack the offices of a Saudi oil company in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, take foreign oil workers hostage in a nearby residential compound, leaving 22 people dead including one American.
June 11–19, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: terrorists kidnap and execute Paul Johnson Jr., an American, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 2 other Americans and BBC cameraman killed by gun attacks.
Dec. 6, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: terrorists storm the U.S. consulate, killing 5 consulate employees. 4 terrorists were killed by Saudi security.
2005
Nov. 9, Amman, Jordan: Suicide bombers hit 3 American hotels, Radisson, Grand Hyatt, and Days Inn, in Amman, Jordan, killing 57. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.
2006
Sept. 13, Damascus, Syria: an attack by four gunman on the American embassy was foiled.
2007
Jan. 12, Athens, Greece: the U.S. embassy was fired on by an anti-tank missile causing damage but no injuries.

US Embassies are American Sovereign Territories!!!!

Answer 8

The culture of terrorism is very patient. There's very little chance of another major attack until complacency reasserts itself. It is a stretch to say the color coded alerts have been anything but annoying, and the pre-9/11 record of this administration on terror is truly terrifying.

Answer 9

The anthrax attacks and I have trouble believing that the tail section of an airliner simply fell off over Long Island.

Answer 10

No they just bombed your allies instead:Madrid,London and Bali and I wouldn't count your chickens before they are hatched,also why would they bother going there to kill Americans they are doing a pretty good job of that in Iraq.Bush has not made the world safer he has put it on the brink of WW3 yes he has done a wonderful job.

Answer 11

If you give Bush credit for preventing attacks after 9/11, then you must also give him credit for allowing the attacks on 9/11.