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As Charles [Krauthammer] said, the country was kept safe ever since 9/11. There has not been an attack.
This line is trotted out over and over and over and over again by every wingnut in the US of A.
Some years back I was on a roof of a building one day watching the 767's, 747's, 737's, DC-10's flying about a couple of hundred meters above my head on their take-off path. One every few minutes, fully-laden with people and fuel.
Now, think about every single airport in North America.
None of those dick-weeds has "kept America safe for the past 8 years," as the now-familiar bleating goes. Rather, it's more likely that the Islamic militants have no desire or need to return to America, at least at present.
