Why hasn't America been attacked by terrorist since 9/11?

To answer that question you can take the Bush administration's self-serving excuses. Those are that 1. "We are fighting them in Iraq so that they won't come over here.

Yeah, right. We invaded a country without a connection to the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11, and only after we invaded and occupied their country, destroyed their government and economy, did they create an all new set of terrorists to try to force our occupying forces out. This stops terrorists from attacking America -- how? The mechanism is, to put it politely, highly unclear.

What is clear is that by invading Iraq with no justifiable reason the American Republican Party was starting an unnecessary war that would create its own opponents. the opponents, facing the most powerful military in the world they adopted asymmetric warfare and invited outside help for training and materials from existing terrorist organizations.

Then, not only did the Bush administration Republicans motivate the creation of bands of insurgents who had to use what the Republicans call "terrorist" techniques of fighting, they stupidly failed to control Iraq while they destroyed the Iraqi Army and Police who might have stopped the growth of the insurgency.

Now Iraq has numerous militias and insurgent groups using asymmetric warfare on each other and on the occupying American troops. The American troops in Iraq are a great recruiting and fundraising tool for the insurgents and militias, and the fighting teaches them the best and most effective techniques with which to take on the most powerful military in the world.

The so-called terrorists in Iraq were not their before the Republican invasion of that country. They are a creation of the U.S. Republican Party militarists and nationalists. They wouldn't have been there had George Bush and Dick Cheney not created them!

Then we get Bush excuse no. 2. The terrorists have not attacked America because the newly created Department of Homeland Security has greatly increased America's defenses against terrorists.

It is hard to know whether DHS has actually been in any way successful, since The Bush administration keeps everything behind a wall of secrecy. The secrecy itself is a major destruction of open democratic government, but the secrecy seems primarily intended to protect the Republican Party rather than to keep "terrorists" from learning the more effectively attack America.

But the secrecy is doing the job it was intended to do. It keeps Americans from knowing what their government is doing to them.

For a more extensive description of how effective DHS has been, go read Amy Zegart at the Reality-Based community.

This is all an American-centered view, focused on why there has been no follow-up to the 9/11 attack. But there is more information to look at, and James Wimberly asks the next great question - Why Hasn't Spain Been Attacked Since 11-M?, then provides a short set of answers.

Gen. Petreaus was asked the key question during his interview Monday. Is America safer for the invasion of Iraq? Gen Petreaus waffled and did not answer at that time, getting a rebuke from his boss, George Bush. More lies and secrecy from the Bush administration.

Democracy does not work when the leaders of the government are allowed to keep their actions secret and lie to the public. Bush, Cheney and the Republican Party are working hard to destroy the American democracy and replace it with an authoritarian government run by plutocrats like themselves. There is no other explanation for what is happening.

Not only are we not safer from terrorists than we were September 11, 2001, they have successfully changed the subject to the (relatively minor) threat of Islamic-based terrorism while they put basic American democracy into grave threat!