Page 10 - Terrorism Attacks News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Nation, we may be weaker. and that is because of the debt. in part because of money that we have spent in iraq and afghanistan, money that i don't think we need to spend, not to that degree. >> terrorism is an instrument of the weak. terrorism is an instrument of a weak group, al qaeda. this is a very weak organization. but it uses terror to try to attack our psyche. and if we overreact to terrorism attacks, we empower them. we embolden them. we amplify their power, and we fall into their strategy, which is to create fear in our hearts. >> a strategy of turning america into a nation driven and...

Last night, is he closing the door on the fact that -- is he proving to the american people that everything is on the up and up here? >> it's a tough call. on the one hand, you know, it would be -- it's logical this program is effective. you're collecting so much data that if it didn't turn out that it resolved or prevented any terrorism attacks, it wouldn't make any sense. on the other hand, if you look -- if you step back and you look at the numbers, you begin to wonder how effective it actually truly is. general alexander said 50 potential terrorist attacks were thwarted. ten of them could ...

Thank you congressman jim himes of connecticut. >> yeah, i hear you. thanks, chris. >> let's turn to sam stein with the "huffington post." sam, reading this as a gist journalist and looking at this stuff and the president's presentation to charlie rose last night, is he closing the door on the fact that -- is he proving to the american people that everything is on the up and up here? >> it's a tough call. on the one hand, you know, it would be -- it's logical this program is effective. you're collecting so much data that if it didn't turn out that it resolved or prevented any terrorism attac...

The activities of the last ten years have made the u.s. safer, a lot safer, a little bit safer? not safer at all? >> i think our homeland is safer because of our efforts against al qaeda in particular. but i think that overall as a nation, we may be weaker. and that is because of a debt, in part because of money that we have spent in iraq and afghanistan, money that i don't think we need to spend, not to that degree. >> terrorism is an instrument of the weak. terrorism is the instrument of a weak group, al qaeda. this is a very weak organization. but it uses terror to try to attack our psyche....

Need this money for training purposes to be ready in the event of an attack it seems on the face of it like a good idea, right? >> well, these are called urban area security initiative grants. the whole idea was to take the top cities in america that were most likely at risk for terrorism and harden them, and help the states, and those cities, get them to a point where we had a markedly decreased risk for terrorism attacks. the problem with the administration, a lot of this money has been well spent. that wasn't the purpose of the report. the purpose of the report is to show that, number one, ...