We want a free nation, high-speed communications, transportation, freedom to travel, move our money, privacy protection, civil rights - all good, but then cry foul when 19 sick men following the will of a sick ideology, financed by a sick leader abuse our freedoms to fly our planes into our buildings and murder our citizens.
9-11 won't happen again because "we the people" won't allow it....we'd take out the murderer first. They only succeeded the first time because we didn't believe our fellow "man" would do such a thing on American soil. We won't be fooled again.
Well over a trillion dollars has been spent to ensure 9/11s don't happen and to this date there as not been one resignation or a single dismissal, a pension stripped.
Troop movements in the Middle East may or may not make us 'safer' but the complete lack of focus on decentralizing the government and the FAA idiots who ensured 9/11s in the 1970s when they disarmed the passengers through fiat is usually defined as militarism which should not ever be confused with conservatism.