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The USA didn’t have any terror attacks on that scale before 9/11 either.

• kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
  Imagine you were an Iraqi minding your own business and 100x more of your friends and family were killed by bombs from a foreign attack.
• greenyoda 5y ago
  If the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 would have been more successful, it could have killed thousands of people - the bomb was intended to topple Tower 1 into Tower 2, bringing both down.[1] Luckily, it only ended up killing 6 and injuring 1000. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombin...
• gremlinsinc 5y ago
  Was gonna reply w/ something like this but we did have a few... Germans invaded near the statue of liberty and blew shit up (ww1).... and Pearl Harbor...those were technically acts of war, but amounts to the same, and the sinking of the Luscitania... But, for the most part America has been safe before and after the one isolated event of 9/11 and there's no proof that anything we've done since has made us safer (likely it's had the opposite effect by stirring up animosity).
  • nsonha 5y ago
    no proof but I thought increased airport security must have caught some stuff.