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Another 9/11, and that proves that certain things work. but that doesn't prove that the whole apparatus works. and it doesn't prove that, well, you can just keep adding more and more security. and there's also a real danger here that it's hard to take it away. and i think that's why it continues to grow, because any politician or anyone who says, well, we need to dial some of this back, suddenly is accused of being soft on terrorism. >> in the years since 9/11, we've gotten used to hearing political leaders assert that we have not been hit again. >> there has not been another attack on the uni...

>> there has not been another attack on the united states. and that's not an accident. >> it's a neutralizing rejoinder to any criticism of post-9/11 counterterrorism measures. or policy of any kind justified as counterterrorism. no matter what you think of what we've done, there hasn't been another 9/11. it's true, there hasn't been. there's been nothing of that magnitude in ten years. but the united states has been targeted in the past ten years over and over agaiover again. one week after the september 11 attacks, the anthrax mailings to senators' offices, media outlets, and some apparently...