Does the average person even think about Terrorist attacks against the US anymore?
126671
The government can't even respond to things when it has 3 days advance notice. Bush was advised that Katrina was going to hit the Gulf coast and what did he do? Go on vacation. The National Guard, usually the first responders to disasters like Katrina, has been decimated by deployments to Iraq. We are not prepared for another terrorist attack, aside from more of us having duct tape and plastic sheeting in our homes.\n\nIn response to your second question: Does anyone know what color we are today? Are we at orange or yellow?
634759
Well, considering how secure many Americans are in their smaill-mindedness and exclusionary behaviour, I guess so. The greatest risk that an increase of Muslims presents to the USA is the risk that you might be forced to open your minds and accept Muslims as people just the same as you instead of live bombs...
295332
not all people call them terrorists... only the ignorant ones.
90886
No matter which side you are on - there is a problem with militant muslims.  It started in 1983, and just grew.  The 1993 WTC bombings should've a wake up call for all americans.  We went to Afghanistan & Iraq to defend ourselves because terrorist don't have homeland.  I don't like seeing our troops, ally troops, or iraqis dying, but I'd rather have the battle fought on their land not ours.  911 was the worst attack on our soil ever.
22896
That's too general a question.  I never gave it much thought until 9/11 because it just isn't a part  of my world at all, there are very few muslims where I live and they are no different than anyone else around.  Then the terrorism was brought to our attention and all we heard was "Muslim extremist", so all over the news, and in government paid commericals on TV we heard over and over that this isn't reflective of Muslims in general, that Islam is based on peace, etc. etc.  At the same time we also hear that Muslims are being trained from birth to hate Americans.  It's a mixed signal, as far as my own opinion I don't have a problem with it.  People are people no matter what their religion and I don't hate any of them.  But I wonder what is really happening with the future.  While the US government is very careful about telling us that nothing is to be blamed on Muslims, other governments are training their kids to hate and our kids no that.  So another upcoming generation is being trained to hate each other.\n\nIt would help a lot to get the world together on their ways, and open up knowledge rather than preach love and hate.  If people know each other as people it doesn't really matter what religion they are, they should be free to follow whichever they choose with no one hating them for it.
109277
Yes, it seems that most Americans have forgotten the attacks on our nation, and the thousands who have died. It seems  most are willing to let  Islam take control of Ameerica. Almost no one is worried that iran will have nukes, and will be able to launch an attack on a Major American city.  It seems that all these people have become liberals who worry about the rights of criminals and aliens, than our own rights.  It seems that we have put restrictions of  Freedom of the Press and Free Speech when  they call for punishng  cartoonists who draw satiric pictures of   Mohammad. yet, it is ok to draw satiric pictures of Jesus.   Yes, most of us have forgotten, and do not care anymore. The thousands who died in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pensylvania are gone, and no one cares anymore.
490322
It is, and it is sad. The terrorists know that they are off the hook now. Democrats are far more interested in prosecuting those who engaged in the war on terror, than actually engaging terrorists. remember clinton had 8 chances to kill bin laden, and chose not to too. Out of fear of the innocent civilian casualties, well, on 9-11 we had those civilian casualties, and they were ours. \n \nDemocrats find it impossible to define terrorism, let alone fight a war against it. they would rather apologize to the global community, and seek reparations for those poor terrorists, er i mean freedom fighters whom those mean neo-cons fought a war against.\n\neven one of the democrats elected is a muslim,  great win for the terrorists, especially since he is endorsed by CAIR, an organization with strong ties to Hamas and Palestinian terror organizations, and their support for sami al arian. and a strong dislike for billboards casting bin laden in a bad light.\n\nIn their headlong uneducated rush to end the war on terror, the democrats will end up prolonging the war, giving comfort and aid to our enemies, and putting those few people in the world, who were most capable of eliminating terrorists, behind bars. this is a dark day for democracy, and world peace.\n\nwhere will the alqaeda democrat victory rallies be held? just wait for the fireworks. atleast we gave it a shot. now our children will pay for our failure to finish the job. democrats have turned back the clock to september 10th. Terrorists, will arm, train, and finance, just as they did under the clinton administration, under our noses, and anyone who raises an eyebrow of suspicion, will be called a racist for profiling that poor immigrant, working to get his pilots license and worship his god the way he sees fit.\n\nGod Help us, Europe has already lost the battle, We now have Eurabia. We are next for dhimmitude.
102033
i don't know. personally I have always been against it and have believed from the beginning that this has been handled the wrong way. i'm no politician, but i don't see how you can handle terrorism by waging war on a country that now we are saying we are liberating. what kind of hipocrits are we? look what we did to their country and families. Do you think those individuals were responsible for a maniacs choices? They had no more control over the situation then you and I  and the men in charge of it is in hiding and the countymen are still suffering as are our boys and girls.
521695
Things changed after 9/11 and can you honestly blame people for the fear they have?
664731
I don't agree with the US not branding them as terrorists, but consider this. You said the IRA has been doing the exact same thing . Well, not entirely. I don't think the IRA has killed 3,000 people in one day. I understand what your saying and I think any number of people lost is bad, but that was a pretty massive number.
536724
It seems strange to me that you believe that there are only a "handful" of Muslims terrorists or extremists.  They have committed bombings and massacres all over the word!  There are people suffering in these countries because of their own countries governments!  America cannot and should not take all the blame for these countries problems.  There are too many lazy ass American's who do nothing and bitch about how horrible our country is.  I am so tired of it!  If America is really that bad, maybe you should just go to one of the extremists countries and see if you like it better there!
400225
You're kidding right?  The US has lost more Int'l. crediblity than at any other time in it's history and it will take decades to repair it and it will make fighting the war on terror that much harder because foreign govts. have little if any trust in the US.  The US has become isolationists not by choice but by default (most of the rest of the world, except Israel, can't stand the US diplomatically).
97532
To answer your question, yes. If other countries were attacked by lets say "U.S. terrorist", why shouldn't they be able to do what the U.S. is doing in the name of "War Against Terrorism." Would it be a wise choice, no, but I don't see a difference, they want to protect their territory, just like we want to protect ours.  They have their beliefs and live their lives accordingly, just like the U.S. have their beliefs and we live our lives accordingly.  We (U.S) will not let anyone dictate how we should live, so how dare the U.S. dictate how another country should live!\n\nAND I still want to know WHERE THE HELL IS BIN LADEN!  That's who we were going after, that's who I was told was responsible for Sept 11th; here we are almost five years later and NO Bin Laden, and he's still making tapes! What a damn joke!...The so call plan was to go after Bin Laden and his crew, at least that's what I heard from Mr. President, but now we (U.S.) seem to have shifted priorities.
19672
Unfortunatly/fortunatly the US has been so sheltered geographicly and culturaly that the bulk of the population doesn't understand the situation we're in. Consider the level of terrorist activity that exists in Europe, Asia, or Israel. Bombings in England, 3 weeks of COORDINATED rioting in France, rioting in Denmark by muslim extremists too, multiple bombings in Idonesia, Abu sayaf group in phillipines regularly beheading christian missionaries, etc etc etc. Americans being 'sheltered' haven't found the balance between national safety and freedom.\n\n"domestic" spying in this case was on groups and individuals specificly communicating with or tied to acknowledged terrorits organizations. In addition there was a documented authorization process in order to get the 'taps' in the first place. The controvesy is entirely domestic politics. The same people who are outraged by the "spying" will be the same people outraged that the gov't didn't do enough WHEN the next attack occurs on US soil.\n\nTheres a cliche saying "don't confuse the argument with facts". It's all too true. The issue is only debatable when you think with your heart instead of your head. I guess 9/11 wasn't enough to wake them up.
262744
You are right and wrong with this question.  \n\nI believe that MOST Americans care, they just have place their personal life ahead of the news.  They are bombarded on a daily basis about people getting killed in Iraq and Afganistan, and they have learned to tune it out.  \n\nSad, but true.
635868
First of all, you have to make sure the people you're going to kill actually are terrorists. The War on Terror is a sham. The US isn't going after terrorism all over the world. If this was true then terrorist attacks wouldn't be at an all time high. Don't believe the hype of the talking head in Washington DC.
281318
... I agree... we're Americans and have a long history of not letting fear take what we hold most dear... our Freedoms... yet Bush is totally taking the opposite approach... everything is through fear... all actions are excused by "do you want another attack"... that's not a justification... \n\nI would rather be attacked again than loose what America stands for... we can stand another attack, we can't stand a loss of our freedom...\n\nAnd the other thing is... he talks about terror attacks, yet the man that was behind the first one is, odds are, in Pakistan and we're not doing anything about it..