Actually, Dave, after the posted bit of ignorance that Americans hadn't experienced war on their own territory, Paul Burke immediately responded with reference to the Civil War, then made reference to "this century". Art Brooks posted examples from the following (20th) century. The following post (nameless, of course) that two of his choices weren't "American soil" was out in the night. They weren't yet States, but they were American territories on which American citizens were attacked.

One could argue that the bombing of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania constituted an attack on American territory.

The current American activity in Afghanistan is a direct result of American civilians most cruelly attacked in their own workplaces by terrorists given residence by a religiously motivated dictatorial regime.

The thread title is a result of ignorance as to the distinction between entirely different military tools, which was pointed out early in the posts, yet somehow the ignorance keeps on a'rollin'.