For those critics to ignore their own past statements, exposes the hollowness of their current attacks.

Just being Palestinian exposes you to attacks.

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.