5. Is America Safer?
Ever since September 11, 2001, law enforcement has undoubtedly upped their game when it comes to identifying and neutralizing terrorists who wish to emulate the despicable actions of those 19 men. They have foiled several potential plots. The most recent being an Iraqi national who has been in the US since 2020 and who is accused of being an Islamic State sympathizer who planned to murder former US President George W Bush.
They must be doing some things right as there have not been any large scale terrorist attacks on U.S. cities like the ones many believed would inevitably follow September 11th, not by Muslim extremists anyway. There have still been at least 14 attacks linked to Islamic extremism in the past 21 years.
The most recent was on May 21, 2020, when Adam Alsahi, someone who has openly expressed support for terrorist networks including ISIS, crashed through a northern perimeter gate at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas and began shooting. Thankfully, the only one who was killed was Alashi.
