Yet even with the escalating threats of the 1990s, it still took
years before Islamic terrorists were able to pull off something of
the magnitude of 9/11 on U.S. soil. A commenter raises the opposite objection:
that I gave Bush too much credit by not mentioning the anthrax
attacks. The fact that this case is unsolved is certainly
disturbing, but we don’t know that it was a foreign terrorist
attack.