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*There have been no new major terrorist attacks in the U.S. But that doesn't mean anything one way or another. It was seven years from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing until 9/11/2001. You can't tell whether what's been done was effective or whether we've just been lucky. (I don't even want to think about Poisson distributions and how many terrorist incidents you'd need to have per year to have statistical significance as to whether things were getting better or not).

*There have been no new major terrorist attacks in the U.S. But that doesn't mean anything one way or another. It was seven years from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing until 9/11/2001. You can't tell whether what's been done was effective or whether we've just been lucky. (I don't even want to think about Poisson distributions and how many terrorist incidents you'd need to have per year to have statistical significance as to whether things were getting better or not).

*On December 17, 2001, Bush said "Osama bin Laden is going to be brought to justice.  It may happen tomorrow, it may happen in a month, it may happen in a year. But he is going to be brought to justice.  He's on the run.  He thinks he can hide, but he can't.  We've been at this operation now for about two and a half months, and we've made incredible progress."[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/text/20011217-4.html] The administration's has always stated its war aims so vaguely that you can never prove that they've shifted, but bringing bin Laden to justice was, absolutely, a major goals of the war on terror, and as nearly as I can tell the adminstration has successfully managed to change the subject.

*On December 17, 2001, Bush said "Osama bin Laden is going to be brought to justice.  It may happen tomorrow, it may happen in a month, it may happen in a year. But he is going to be brought to justice.  He's on the run.  He thinks he can hide, but he can't.  We've been at this operation now for about two and a half months, and we've made incredible progress."[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/text/20011217-4.html] The administration's has always stated its war aims so vaguely that you can never prove that they've shifted, but bringing bin Laden to justice was, absolutely, a goal of the "war on terror," and as nearly as I can tell the adminstration has successfully managed to change the subject.

*Homeland Security's response to Katrina was a reasonable test of the effectiveness of that organization.  

*Homeland Security's response to Katrina was a reasonable test of the effectiveness of that organization.  

*The 2006 National Intelligence estimate, as characterized by the Christian Science Monitor, "contends that the war in Iraq has increased Islamic radicalism, and has made the terror threat around the world worse."[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0925/dailyUpdate.html]

*The 2006 National Intelligence estimate, as characterized by the Christian Science Monitor, "contends that the war in Iraq has increased Islamic radicalism, and has made the terror threat around the world worse."[http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0925/dailyUpdate.html]

Do I know what to do about terrorism? No. Do the Democrats? No. Do the Republicans? No, and they've had the chance to deal with it from 9/11 through the elections in 2006 with control of Congress and pretty much a free hand. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 08:37, 23 April 2007 (EDT)

Do I know what to do about terrorism? No. Do the Democrats? No. Do the Republicans? No, and they've had the chance to deal with it from 9/11 through the elections in 2006 with control of Congress and pretty much a free hand. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 08:37, 23 April 2007 (EDT)