How Exactly Are We Safer Since 9/11

[CompassionateLiberal]

With the announcement of today's report that airport security is woefully poor:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20040422/ap_on_re_us/airport_security

Can someone please tell me the reasons we should feel safer since 9/11? I'm having a difficult time thinking of one good reason. Honestly.

I mean, we've spent billions of our tax dollars creating a massive Homeland Security Dept. We've spent billions in Afghanistan chasing around a phantom and have managed to secure only the capital. We've spent untold billions invading Iraq, which has only resulted in increasing anti-American sentiment across the world, in addition to introducing Al Qaeda to a country where it didn't exist before. We've added another hundred billion to the annual DOD budget, now at something like $500+ billion (ANNUALLY!!). And, during this same period, we've somehow managed to under-fund first responder units in the major cities across the US.

Putting aside the partisan rhetoric, why exactly should a US citizen feel safer since 9/11? I mean, it can't be because we've got a couple thousand Taliban foot soldiers sitting in Gitmo.

[ComerPerro]

1. It gets worse

we learned that the Bush administration, at the very best, wasn't paying attention at all and was completely incapable of protecting us. They just didn't care.

And now they are saying that there is a very real possiblity of terror attacks here in the US before the election...

God knows they won't stop those. They will probably all be on vacation again...

I just don't understand how people can say Bush makes them feel safe.

[CompassionateLiberal]

2. Why Not Challenge them Directly on our Safety?

Seems like this would be an easy enough subject to challenge the Administration on? Versus letting the GOP falsely claim some sort of twisted victory on this subject simply by their heavy rhetoric and not their actual results. Anyway... I'm just preaching to the choir I guess.

[ComerPerro]

3. wish i knew

But, they just don't get challenged.

I don't know why the administration isn't challenged on most of the bullshit they pull.