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Originally Posted by Downthestretch55
To me, it's ok to ask questions. If you don't know the answers, that's ok too.
The answers are easily found.
In a way, it seems that our country wouldn't be in the situation that it's currently facing had not those that brought them to the fore been branded as "unpatriotic".
At this point in time, since I've used up most of the plastic sheeting and duct tape that I bought a few years ago, and since we've had the "regime change" and "mission accomplished" on the flight deck of the Abraham Lincoln, and there are no WMD's...only a few questions remain.
One is:
Have the actions initated by the administration created more or fewer terrorists?
Follow up:
Are American citzens "safer" now?
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Unfortunately, I would probably say that more terrorists have been created. I thought about this long and hard a few years ago and I thought the result would be the opposite. I was wrong.
By the same token, I still think we are safer here in the US. You may think it is paradoxical that I think that more terrorists have been created yet I still think we are safer, but I can explain why I think this. I basically think that there are definitely more angry Muslims in the Middle East right now than there were a few years ago. However, just because you have some angry people in the streets in the Middle East, that doesn't necessarily put us at greater risk. Most of these people don't have the means to hurt us. A guy like Bin Laden can hurt us because he has the money, his group is well organized, etc.
I think the biggest threat to us was always from someone like Bin Laden. But I think that all the things we've done since 9/11 like improving and totally revamping our intelligence(CIA, FBI, informants, etc.), being more careful who we give visas to, putting Bin Laden on the run, and all the other things we've done have made us safer. Although we may not be safer from small isolated attacks from lone people acting on their own such as the guy who shot a few people at the ticket counter at Los Angels Airport. We actually are probably at greater risk when it comes to lone people acting out on their own.