Imagine you were an Iraqi minding your own business and 100x more of your friends and family were killed by bombs from a foreign attack.

Was gonna reply w/ something like this but we did have a few... Germans invaded near the statue of liberty and blew shit up (ww1).... and Pearl Harbor...those were technically acts of war, but amounts to the same, and the sinking of the Luscitania...

But, for the most part America has been safe before and after the one isolated event of 9/11 and there's no proof that anything we've done since has made us safer (likely it's had the opposite effect by stirring up animosity).

no proof but I thought increased airport security must have caught some stuff.

If the first World Trade Center attack in 1993 would have been more successful, it could have killed thousands of people - the bomb was intended to topple Tower 1 into Tower 2, bringing both down.[1] Luckily, it only ended up killing 6 and injuring 1000.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombin...