Essay: For 20 years since 9/11, the U.S. has staved off any comparable attack on its homeland. Will its counterterrorism measures hold for the future, too?
Twenty years ago, the 9/11 attacks killed almost 3,000 Americans. Since then, the U.S. homeland hasn’t suffered any comparable terrorist assault, nor even one a tenth of the size. The total death toll from jihadist attacks inside the U.S. over these last two decades stands at 107—still too high but far lower than almost all of our leaders and counterterrorism officials feared it would be in September 2001, when visions of a follow-on strike, perhaps with weapons of mass destruction, loomed.
Yet jihadism itself remains strong, as the Taliban’s recent takeover of Afghanistan demonstrates. The U.S. has also suffered some scary near misses over the years, such as when the “underwear bomber” almost detonated a bomb on a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day, 2009. The vast majority of plots in the U.S. have been unsophisticated, however, involving untrained volunteers inspired by ISIS or al Qaeda propaganda.
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