DoD Official: U.S. Safer Now Than Before 9/11

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America is safer today than before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Defense Department’s top homeland defense official said today, reports AFPS.

It is no accident that America has not suffered another terrorist attack on its home soil since 9/11, Acting Assistant Defense Secretary for Homeland Defense Peter F. Verga said after delivering opening remarks at the department’s Homeland Defense Conference here.

“My view is that the only reason we haven’t been attacked is the enemy has not been able to do it,” Verga said. “They’re not waiting for some strategic opportunity. They’re going to attack us when they can, however they can do it. The fact that they have not been able to is a direct result of what we’ve been doing around the world.”

“There is no doubt in my mind that we are safer,” he said. “I’m not sure that we will ever be safe from this particular threat. This is one of those threats that is so difficult to deal with. You can’t protect every place, every time from every conceivable threat.”

Personally, I would place more value in the reality that there have been no more terrorist attacks within the U.S. than in the strictly political claims otherwise.

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