Legal Commentary

Odds I would have given, and odds I won't take, on future terrorist attacks on American soil

By Beldar

There could be another one tomorrow. Or in three months and a few days, to commemorate the anniversary of the first one.

But there has not been a major terrorist attack, by al Qaeda or otherwise, on American soil during the roughly six and a three-quarter years since 9/11/01.

When Barack Obama and the Democrats tell you, again and again, as if it's an indisputable truism, that "George W. Bush's foreign policy and national security policy have been unmitigated disasters," that rather important fact ? almost seven years since the last major terrorist attack on American soil! ? is enough all by itself to refute their argument.

Indeed, if you had asked me in late September 2001 what the odds were that we could survive two full years without another major terrorist attack on American soil, I'd have given you poor odds (at least 10 to 1 that another attack would occur). If you'd asked what the odds were that we could survive another five full years without one, I'd have given you overwhelmingly grim odds (at least 50 to 1). Turns out, I would have been wrong.

Full post as published by BeldarBlog on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).