U.S. Policies established after 9/11 have substantially reduced the risk of terrorist acts against the U.S.?

Question

If you guys could help me with this question it would be great! My partner and I are going to debate nationals in 4 days and need some facts!! Tnx! Pro and Con plz!!

Answer 1

No, they have NOTHING to do with terrorism.  All they have done is to move us closer to a police state, the real intention of some of our politicians.

To reduce the threat of terrorist act, we need to stay out of other nations wars.  We need to beware of foreign entanglements.  We need to stop invading nations that haven't attacked us.

Don't get the idea that I sympathise with the terrorists, because I don't.  But I do not support policies that invite terrorist attacks.  It is our politicians who brought terrorism to us.  We can thank our own politicians for throwing the rock at the hornet's nest.  

Who benefited from the terrorist attacks?  Those individuals who are destroying the Bill of Rights.

Answer 2

There were no attacks against the US during Jimmy Carter's presidency or Gerald Ford's.  Does that mean that their policies were sucessful anti-terrorist policies?

Answer 3

The fact that we haven't had an attack in the US or against US interests (excluding Iraq) throughout the world in nearly seven years speaks volumes.