There doesn't need to ba another 9/11 type attack in the U.S. The terrorists got what they wanted. A successful statement that we are vulnerable. And the billions of $$ we've spent since then to protect us doesn't mean a lot - sure, it's be difficult for the same thing to happen, but to get a large amount of explosives and blow up a building wouldn't be that difficult still.

Nobody in the U.S. seriously beleives we are even close to being completely protected from a major terrorist attack.

That's what terrorists wanted. We are vulnerable. Heck, the current government tells us that to scare us as well - so they can quietly install a sort of military dictatorship.

The olny way to change anything is to stop pissing off those people who are willing to be terrorists. I don't know how good Kerry will be at that, but at least he doesn't have the rhetoric of the current pretender.