The logistics base for the 9/11/01 terrorists was the United States of America. That is where they lived for months prior to the attack. That is where they trained to fly airplanes and even conducted dry runs. That is where they launched from. That is where the airplanes they used were built.

The money for all this, modest as it was, came from Saudi Arabia. The money got to Saudi Arabia from the United States because we refuse to drill for oil on our own property.

The strategy for all of this came from the United States, when we insisted on treating terrorists as mere individual criminals and told our airline pilots that if they even thought about doing anything but turning their airliners over to hijackers the FBI would throw them in jail (I know some pilots and they told me this.) It wasn’t just their strategy; it was our national strategy and they reacted to it.