Certainly there are people who want to blow up bombs all over the US.

What's stopping them, if not our security services?

> Certainly there are people who want to blow up bombs all over the US.

Is there? How do you know this?

Would you say the number of such attacks has drastically fallen since 2000?

The number of people trying to attack us has drastically risen.

I think that is quite unlikely. Based on what evidence do you believe that?

Just based on my own experience having lived through the nineties. We didn't have any where near the number of attacks against the US and Europe then.

Excluding attacks on US military forces engaged in post-invasion occupations, I'm pretty sure there were more terrorist attacks (total and foreign-origin) targeting the US in the Nineties than the 2000s, or, on a year-for-year basis, the portion of the 2010s that we've seen so far.

The embassy bombings, the attack on the USS Cole, the WTC bomb attack, and the Oklahoma City bombing were all notable terror attacks on the US in the 1990s.

Only two of those in that decade were attacks on US soil, compared to the Boston Marathon; Fort Hood; Garland, Texas; Chattanooga, Tenn; the Orlando nightclub; the "underwear bomber"; the failed Times Square car bombing; and many more attacks overseas.

It's not clear how interrogations by border police could possibly have helped with any of the ones you mentioned.

Of course not, those are the attacks that none of the existing security measures prevented.

More domestic terrorists (and rattling off examples doesn't really constitute proof of that theory) don't show the necessity of draconian border control.

I lived through the 90s too. I think if you want to make this claim you need some actual evidence.

Do you find this claim hard to believe?

What terrorist organization wanted to attack us in the eighties?

What organization wanted to attack us in the nineties, other than the failed WTC bombing?

If that had succeeded, history might be very different. Success breeds success and the second WTC attacks on 9/11 inspired other terrorists.

> What terrorist organization wanted to attack us in the eighties?

Hezbollah (usually as "Islamic Jihad"), the Italian Red Brigades, the Red Army Faction, the Abu Nidal Organization, and the Japanese Red Army are among the foreign groups that not merely wanted to, but actually succeeded in carrying out attacks targeting Americans in the 1980s

The Armed Resistance Unit, The Order, and the Jewish Defense League are among the domestic groups doing the same.

> What organization wanted to attack us in the nineties, other than the failed WTC bombing?

This little group called al-Qaeda that you may have heard of carried out several attacks targeting the US in the 1990s, including the WTC bombing which killed 6 and injured 1,042.

Saudi Hezbollah also conducted a major attack targeting Americans, and there were several by Islamists for which no organization took credit or has been ascribed blame. This, of course, doesn't cover everyone who wanted to attack Americans, just those who actually carried out attacks that actually did.

There were also notable domestic terrorist attacks in the 1990s.

Yes, I find it hard to believe. You might have gotten that from when I described it as "quite unlikely."

I notice you haven't named the terrorists you believe wanted to attack us then.

The number of such people that make it through the visa approval process has not drastically risen.