Reply #10: Granting the premise that 9/11 WAS an attack by Al Queda...

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what this soon-to-be-former administration did to prevent further such attacks was to respond exactly as desired: wage war on two Muslim countries, vastly increasing the animosity toward the US and enhancing their recruiting. They enhanced the benefit to the purported perps with all the wiretapping, renditions, etc.

If all that shit had not happened - "if we had done nothing" - as you put it, there likely would have been another event. It would not have cost us nearly so much, both in "blood and treasure" and quality of life as has their supposed "cure."

What did NOT "prevent another attack" is banning liquids on planes and making people take their shoes off. BTW, what ever happened to the "terrorist threat" color codes? Are we at a permanent state of mauve or something?