The worst attack on American soil in our history and keeping us safe from another attack that many -- many thought was inevitable.
As Mr. Cheney recounted in his American Enterprise Institute speech, the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11 was an extraordinarily challenging time in which the George W. Bush administration made tough choices from the bunker that kept the country safe from a repeat attack on American soil.
The absolute fact is that the President took office four years ago with a very clear objective, and that was to refocus our efforts on the war in Afghanistan, which was an essential war, because from Afghanistan al Qaeda had been allowed to establish a safe haven, and from that safe haven had launched an attack against the United States that took 3, 000 lives.
This strategy will work to keep the United States safe from another major terrorist attack planned and executed on Afghan territory.
Yemen has long been considered an al Qaeda safe haven, from the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 to the attack on the U.S. Embassy last year.
Al-Qaeda has "protected or regenerated key elements of its homeland attack capability" from its safe haven in Pakistan, he said.
Damascus-based activist Khaled al-Shami said the attack was "a clear message to the regime that nowhere is safe from now on".
The Home Islands, under attack from the German Luftwaffe, had to determine a way to keep safe those...
The Home Islands, under attack from the German Luftwaffe, had to determine a way to keep safe those parts of the population that were not directly related to the civil defense and combat effort.
Quite the contrary: the safe evacuation of all U.S. government personnel from Benghazi twelve hours after the initial attack and subsequently to Ramstein Air Force Base was the result of exceptional U.S. government coordination and military response, and helped save the lives of two severely wounded Americans.
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