Originally Posted by Teacher49
Yet these kinds of attacks are not occurring. To me this simply means that the resources to carry them out are not available to the imaginary terrorists that OBL has successfully set us to guarding against at great cost in money, civil liberties, and ability to focus on other problems.
So this would mean the lack of attack on 9/10/01 meant that Al Qaeda didn't have the resources/capacity to carry out an attack.
But quite the opposite was true: the attack required years of planning to get right. Thus, I don't buy the "lack of attack = no future danger" line of thinking.