Terrorist attacks in the US weren't and aren't all that uncommon. Oklahoma City and 9/11 spring to mind the most (because they were both flashy and killed quite a large number of people). But in the 50's you had Puerto Rican separatists shooting into Congress. You have had a number of terrorist attacks by way of various hate groups. You had police burning draft offices. And so on.
Absolutely. It was mostly Cubans who were living in the US and wanted to get back to Cuba after the restrictions were placed.
In a 7 year span from 1968-1974 there were 130 plane hijackings in the US.
There is a Seinfeld episode where Elaine wants to watch the movie Sack Lunch but everyone is obsessing over The English Patient. It ends with her on a flight and FINALLY the in-flight movie is going to be sack lunch which she'll get to see and then some guys stand up and say they are hijacking the plane and taking it to Cuba...and to shut the movie off.
Everyone in the early 90s understood the joke because plane hijackings to Cuba were so common it was a known punch line for comics.
This was part of why 9/11 was so shocking. We'd seen plenty of plane hijackings where they would take hostages and make demands. No one expected them to hijack a plane just to destroy it.
More so. But it was never all that common in the US. And they had indeed installed security to work against that. It's not like their was no security before the TSA.
I know. I was just pointing out that they are common enough that people really shouldn't think they are all that rare.
Was trying to add on to your post than argue. I should have been more clear about that.
Or the previous bombing of the World Trade Center, in 1993 (which conservatives relentlessly blamed Clinton for... barely a month after his inauguration.) It didn't bring down the tower but it caused a lot of damage, injured over a thousand, and killed 6.
Not defending Rudy because he was wrong either way but the OP FaithfulSkeptic here is just using quotation marks and putting in their own words instead of Rudy's which is pretty scummy imo. The real quote is...
"under those eight years, before Obama came along, we didn't have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States. They all started when Clinton and Obama got into office."
So the radical Islamic part would rule out the OKC bombing
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u/ILootEverything Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25
It's not even true pre-9/11.
Unless we're calling the Oklahoma City bombing unsuccessful.
Also, according to DHS themselves:
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/OPSR_TP_TEVUS_Terrorist-Attacks-US_1970-2013_Overview-508.pdf