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Why hasn't there been another 9/11 attack?

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Every time I pick up the paper (yes, I still read things written by moveable, printed type) I read some story about how vulnerable this country is to another terrorist attack. It seems like any terrorist group with some money, expertise, and desire could poison our water supply, gas our cropland, sabotage our nuclear plants, blow up the Alaska pipeline, launch VX into a football stadium, and STILL take planes hostage and fly them into the Sears Tower or the Space Needle. So why haven't they? If America is so hated, if we've really stoked the fire with al-Qaeda by our latest actions, if they are so clever and so determined, and if we're so vulerable, where is the attack?

I'm of the opinion that 9/11 was a fluke. The United States simply doesn't have nearly as big a terrorist problem as some people would like us to believe. Despite all the people we've detained and arrested, despite all the leads the FBI has sniffed out, despite all the additional surveillance, we've not found a single operational terrorist cell in the US. And while many groups love the idea of hitting Israel or a US embassy or barracks, they consider a direct attack on US soil to be incredibly stupid. Al Qaeda gained few friends or sympathizers in the Muslim world after 9/11, and many organizations known for terrorism distanced themselves from the group. So IMO, it happened once, it was horrible, but concerns that another one is right around the corner are wildly exaggerated.

Thoughts?