is as i said last night, the attacks in boston were the first successful bombing in the united states since 9/11. 11 and a half years. bret: the embassy in benghazi obviously u.s. soil. but inside the united states proper. inside the united states. at the homeland. and the scenes that we saw, much smaller scale, of course, but reminded us of 9/11. the people streets of a great city, the smoke and the chaos. and the, you know, and the screams and the injuries. all of that was remember, we have intercepted and stopped a lot of the bombing attacks, all of them until now. so it had that the feel. i think that s the reason there was that resonance. we this h. all of that with a chemical attack and then it has that whole picture. again we have to have a caveat. is there any connection? nobody knows but it could
different places. look, there are a lot of bombings in the world. there wouldn t need to be companies in scranton, pennsylvania making fake bombs to train on, but bombing attempts do not usually succeed. we are used to attempted bombings that get towards or that fizzle. since 9/11, the new york city hydrogen peroxide bomb, there was a bomb in a backpack packed with fishing weights. it was discovered before it went off. there was the guy strapped with explosives who stormed the discovery channel in maryland. he was killed by police. the attempted underwear bomber, shoe bomber. there have been lots of attempts to bomb the u.s., but almost no successful bombing attacks, one in which the explosives actually
explosives who stormed the discovery channel in maryland. he was killed by police. the attempted underwear bomber, shoe bomber. there have been lots of attempts to bomb the u.s., but almost no successful bombing attacks, one in which the explosives actually detonated and caused the intended damaged. there was a small homemade bomb in wisconsin last year. it broke up the window sill. a mail bomb sent to the university in scottsdale, arizona in 2004. it hurt the man who was the sbepded target, but other than those, attempts at setting off bombs in the united states since 9/11, there have been a lot f tries, but they have almost never been successful. an uncomfortably large number of people, almost nobody pulls it.
is as i said last night, the attacks in boston were the first successful bombing in the united states since 9/11. 11 and a half years. bret: the embassy in benghazi obviously u.s. soil. but inside the united states proper. inside the united states. at the homeland. and the scenes that we saw, much smaller scale, of course, but reminded us of 9/11. the people running in the streets of a great city, the smoke and the chaos. and the, you know, and the screams and the injuries. all of that was remember, we have intercepted and stopped a lot of the bombing attacks, all of them until now. so it had that the feel. i think that s the reason there was that resonance. we this h. all of that with a chemical attack and then it has that whole picture. again we have to have a caveat. is there any connection? nobody knows but it could
whichever side of the aisle, everybody just says, oh, it s africa, let our government do whatever it wants. but you have the anti-apartheid movement and i would prefer the u.s. to france. robin, robin robin, you wanted to jump in. i do. whether it s the united states or france, the reality is that military force is not going to solve the problem alone. bombing attacks are not going to remove the jihadists or the not address the core issues that have divided mali. and this is where you need a really much longer term solution, and this is where the united states has talked about smart power that s not just defense and diplomacy but also includes economic development. and that s really the key in trying to deal with the intense poverty and sense of need and desperation in this large and strategically located african