20 years after 9/11 attacks, just half call US more secure: POLL

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Just 49% of Americans see the United States as safer from terrorism than it was before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, down from 64% a decade ago, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll.

Forty-one percent instead say the United States has become less safe since 9/11, reflecting both renewed partisan divisions and the tumultuous withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan.

A vast 86% in this poll, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates, also say the events of Sept. 11 had a lasting effect on the United States. But underscoring the public's sour mood on this issue, 46%, a new high, say it's been a change for the worse. That easily exceeds the 33% who see a change for the better, half as many as said so in spring 2002.



Shifts

Views of the country's security from terrorism have shifted sharply across the years, given both international developments and partisan U.S. politics. Confidence peaked in 2003 and 2004, fell steeply in 2005 after the London transit bombings, held especially high among Republicans during the Bush administration, plummeted among Republicans two years later under the Obama administration, then rose sharply across groups after the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/20-years-after-9-11-attacks-just-half-call-us-more-secure-poll/ar-AAOdjkA

[relayerbob]

1. The threat has always been from within

"Terrorists" might be able to kill American citizens, but had no hope of taking down America directly. OTOH, domestic terror, the stupidity and gullibility of a large percentage of the American people, coupled with a party determined to drive us towards dictatorship, can, and has done, far more damage. We are certainly less secure now than ever before.

[Midnight Writer]

2. I think simply having a competent President makes us more secure.