Originally Posted by
maniac78
Could be either of these four possibilities :
1) It's hard to recruit and train suicide bombers and so there is a very limited supply
2) It's hard to get terrorists into the US (doubtful)
3) The terrorists are targeting other countries and have given up on attacking the US (again not likely)
4) The terrorists are stupid and are easily caught. I don't think this is the case though since so few have been caught.
I think #1 is the most likely scenario. There have not been many terrorists caught in the act of planning an attack. It could be number 2 as well though I guess but you would think they could smuggle people in through the southern border.
2 & 3 assume that the US is the only target.
I suspect that the main reason is that the terrorists DON'T need to stage an actual attack often - all they need is some loser on a cockamamy scheme that has little chance of success and sit back with the popcorn watching the West go to pieces.
Then again if they can just post a bomb, why bother with bombers