Can anyone provide proof that if we hadn't invaded Iraq, the terrorists would have attacked us since 9/11?

Question

Gunslinger: so... no? I don't live my life based on assumptions. After all, after the '93 attacks, we weren't attacked again while Clinton was in office... so according to your logic, we must assume that his being in office kept us safe. See how faulty that is?

Answer 1

Of course not. Somthing like that is all subjective. It is all in the mind of a radical group of whom we cannot relate to subsequently predict their actions.

Answer 2

Does anyone have proof that if the hadn't invaded Iraq, the terrorists would NOT have attacked us?

All I know is, it is May 21, 2007, 5 years 8 months and 10 days since we were attacked, and we have not been attacked on US soil since.

So as long as we are safe here, I can only argue that whatever we are doing, agree or disagree with it, is working

Answer 3

Can't prove a negative. Sorry, but the question is unanswerable, so not being able to prove this doesn't mean anything.

But one can look at the escalation of terrorist attacks when there was a complete failure to do anything about them. Clinton did nothing about terrorists, no programs in place, no attacks against them (lobbing a few missiles doesn't do anything), and letting the person who did them parade around freely in public as a guest of an intolerant regime (bin Laden in Afghanistan). 9/11 was the culmination of the failure to do anything about terrorists and terrorism.

Answer 4

Ok then! You are such a humanitarian!!So, a great solution would be to invade into every single country in the world!!You don't even care for killing people! You only care for American troops! Get a life and try to think at last; you started a war and you have to expect casualties!THIS IS THE WAR YOU CHOSENYou are not the one that public opinion sympathisies for! Because according to your perspective, americans should invade Belgium for example because some day Belgians might attack your country!@!
I hope you start thinking for other people...
This is why so many countries have anti-american feelings..I feel sorry for you..

Answer 5

Two things in your question are completely bogus.

1 - No one can "prove" with probability 1.0, the outcome of a future event, or a past hypothetical. Thus your question cannot be answered.

2 - Your claim that we were not attacked after the 1993 WTC bombing is bogus.

March 1995: American employees of the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan killed in response to arrest of World Trade Center bombing suspect.

November 1995: U.S. troops attacked in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; five Americans killed.

1996 A truck bomb explodes outside a US military barracks in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, killing 19 US airmen.

1997 Egyptian Islamic Group massacres 62 people, mostly foreign tourists, in Luxor, Egypt. The group claims it is retaliation for US imprisonment of Sheikh Omar Abdel al-Rahman, who is later convicted in 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

1998 Bombs explode outside US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people.

1999 Islamic militants, traced to bin Laden, are arrested for plot to bomb tourist sites during millennium celebrations.

2000 Islamic militants attack the USS Cole, killing 17.

Answer 6

They have, the VA tech shooter said in a clip from his video that was only televised once, "I am doing this for all of my brothers and sisters you (The US) have f#cked over!" The media an the government did not want this publicized as a terror attack because it would project the image of failure in the War on Terror.

Answer 7

sorry but you´re wrong in your response to gunslinger....

there were many attacks on U.S. soil by al Qaeda, during the clinton administration.
they bombed/attacked US embassies in: Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, (remember embassies count as u.s. soil) killed over 200, wounded over 5000....

not too mention the attack of USS Cole, navy ship.... those were all under clinton, and after the first WTC attack......


bring the fight to the enemy so they cannot bring it to us... do you not agree? they are too busy running, hiding, and getting killed to be thinking of new plans to attack us... because they have made thier agenda clear..... "death to america" it doesn´t matter if we are in Iraq, Iran or New Guinea, they want to kill us....

Answer 8

How are you supposed to get proof? Iraq was complicated and it had a numerous amount of reasons for being attacked. so No no one can povide proof, but no one cannot provide proof....

Answer 9

All I know is we should have withdrew from Iraq as soon as we discovered they did not have WMD'S.....

Answer 10

Your looking for a straw man so you can knock it down and say I told you so. No one can answer this question, because no one can ever prove it one way or another.