Couldn't you have, y'know, waited another nine days until the actual anniversary?

Full circle? How?

A record-high 54 percent of American voters feel the U.S. is less safe today than it was before 9/11, according to the latest Fox News national poll.

Voters also think:

- A major terrorist attack is likely in the near future.

- Last year’s U.S.-Iran agreement on Iran’s nuclear program made the U.S. less safe.

- The $400 million the U.S. paid Iran after American prisoners were released was ransom.

- Terrorism is one of the most important issues facing the country.


Here are the details behind those findings:

Most voters, 80 percent, think it’s at least somewhat likely a major attack “causing large numbers of American lives to be lost” will happen in the near future.

Moreover, 37 percent feel it’s “very likely” an attack will happen soon. While that’s down from the high of 43 percent in 2007, it’s up from 24 percent who felt that way in 2011 (the last time this question was asked on a Fox News Poll).

Some 54 percent think the United States is less safe now than before the September 11 attacks. Thirty-nine percent say the country is safer. Last year, it was 53-38 percent (March 2015). This is a fairly recent shift. Prior to September 2014, more voters than not said the country was safer.

www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/01/fox-news-poll-voters-say-us-less-safe-than-before-911-iran-deal-hurt-security.html

We are living in the safest times, as far as full out wars are concerned. A terrorist attack similar to 9/11, while tragic would not change that.

I'll continue to say it: George W. Bush really eliminated the terrorists' ability to strike us and made us safer in that regard. (Seriously, when was the last time Al-Qaeda was relevant?). Obama continued most of GWB's foreign policy, but the things he changed made us less safe (like pulling out of Iraq which essentially led to ISIS).

You just know that ISIS is fairly close to pulling off something in either the US and/or UK. And while I acknowledge you can't keep us safe 100% of the time and that something will always be inevitable, it just feels eerily similar to a pre-9/11 mentally.

About 9/11, we say "Never forget", but sadly I think far too many Americans have forgotten 1.5 decades on.

There's nothing I find more offensive than 9/11 Conspiracies.

that maybe so it may not be so im not an expert in structual engineering or free fall acceleration all i know is those towers were brought down by demoltion all this jet fuel melts steel beams malarky is a load of balls

Would you like to talk to my uncle who knows the truth about the truther movement? Before you yell sheeple, he worked as an engineer.

wasnt gonna yell sheeple im not that much of a c_unt mate i believe everyone has the right to thier own opinions whatever they may be

Yeah. People gotta stop. Two cross country jets were flown into two giant towers at speeds of 500+ mph filled to the brim with jet fuel. That is going to compromise the integrity of any building structure. They don't do scientific tests for that sort of colossal damage/impact.

This was a global tragedy.

Spot on. I despise how anyone uses this for political gain. Much of the conspiracy theorists are borne out of a passionate hatred for America, or alternatively go to the other argument which shamelessly offers an apologist take on the terrorist's 'reasons' (without any knowledge or consideration of the primary host and facilitator of such religious fanaticism).

I remember when I first clicked on this thread, I thought it was a commemoration of the people who were murdered in this terrible tragedy. Instead, it was an expression of panic that another attack would occur based on a Fox News poll of people's "feelings". Now, it's been hijacked by conspiracy theories.

Let's do better for the 16th anniversary, shall we?