No Terrorist Threat?

Patrick Poole posts a well-reasoned response to an upcoming article in Foreign Affairs by Ohio State prof John Mueller. Regarding the idea that there is no longer a terror threat because we have not been attacked in the US since 9/11, he writes:

Of course, there are a number of factors that have prevented al-Qaeda from striking America again, most importantly our military assaults against them abroad and vigorous law enforcement measures at home. This includes the destruction of Al-Qaeda’s Taliban safe haven, intensive signals surveillance and human intelligence gathering, the capture and dismantling of their terror cells around the world, the identification and freezing of their financial assets and disrupting their sources of income, and the U.S. military pushing what remains of al-Qaeda’s leadership into the remote mountain caves of Waziristan.

Spot on , read the whole thing yourself!