There has yet to be another terrorist attack on the scale of that seen on September 11, 2001, but radical Islamic terrorism still permeates the U.S. mindset, with Americans feeling less safe now more than ever.
A recent poll by the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs found that 42 percent of Americans feel less safe now than they did before 9/11. Their concerns are warranted, as many terrorism analysts and policymakers agree that despite trillions of dollars of investment in national security, the threat is as high as ever.
“I don’t think we are any safer. We are more at risk,” David Scott Mann, a former Army Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel and terrorism analyst, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. – READ MORE
