One small incident...ur an epic moron. The attack failed to bring down the buildings, but that was the goal. We lost guys on the Cole, we lost guys at Kobar towers. Bin Laden was emboldened by our pull-out in Somalia...alll this happaned on Clinton's watch. Bush responded by taking down the shitbags in Afghanistan. They responded by changing all the ridiculous rules that were put in place by the friggen Dems, that hamstrung our Intell and SOF forces. Ur knowledge is one Huffington Post article deep, but keep trying.
HH6 - thanks for pointing out the 1993 WTC bombing. Ramzi Yusef said the goal was 2ook dead and he thought on the low side it would have been 40k dead if they could bring down the towers in 1993.
The only reason we did not lose 40k people on 9/11/2001 was the following:
1. Time of day.
2. Height of the attack on the upper floors
3. Length of time the buildings stood before they collapsed.
Change any of those factors and we could have easily lost 25- 75k people.