"But if bin Laden is much stronger than he was, why haven't there been more attacks on the United States?
"One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him," says Scheuer. "Bin Laden has consistently shown himself to be immune to outside pressure. When he wants to do something, he does it on his own schedule."
mortal- there aren't a finite number of terrorists. It's a phenomenan as well as a bunch of organizations. There was terrorism in russia last month. We've killed tons of terrorists in iraq but te fact that we just had to level fallujah is more a symbl of our failure than a success. Would you consider 9/11 a success because 19 terrorists were killed?
"One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community, and especially the counterterrorism community, is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us, it's because he can't or because we've defeated him," says Scheuer. "Bin Laden has consistently shown himself to be immune to outside pressure. When he wants to do something, he does it on his own schedule."
mortal- there aren't a finite number of terrorists. It's a phenomenan as well as a bunch of organizations. There was terrorism in russia last month. We've killed tons of terrorists in iraq but te fact that we just had to level fallujah is more a symbl of our failure than a success. Would you consider 9/11 a success because 19 terrorists were killed?
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