This article is about whether or not the United States and the American people are safer today, six years after the attacks of 9/11.

The article argues that Americans are not safer today due to the Bush administration leaving the borders and ports wide open, the failure to stop immigration from countries that the State Department itself lists as "terrorist" nations, the invasion of Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and which has created a backlash in the Muslim world and the assault on the constitutional liberties of the American people including the USA Patriot Act, which has all but demolished the 4th Amendment.