What it proves is that terrorist attacks are very rare, and perhaps our national response wasn't worth the enormous expense, loss of liberty, attacks on our Constitution and damage to our credibility on the world stage.
Those are the kind of things that we think are important to change the dynamics, to increase our credibility, to return ourselves to the great country that we've been.
The last thing we want is for our credibility to be permanently damaged.
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Such a capability is the sine qua non of a superpower and is essential to the credibility of our overall national security strategy.
We need a president who has the credibility to bring our allies to our side and share the burden, reduce the cost to American taxpayers, and reduce the risk to American soldiers.
Our joint success relies on the trust, credibility and transparency of our access to media.
"It's important for the world to have credibility with respect to our nonproliferation efforts, " Kerry told reporters after meeting Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh at the State Department.
We've hurt our own credibility by continuing to deal with them.
It is more accurate to say, however, that - given the corrosive effect of obsolescence on the safety, reliability and credibility of our aging nuclear arsenal - it amounts to unilateral disarmament.
"It would raise doubts about our credibility if we were simply to change the rules in the middle of the first programme, " she says.
To preserve the credibility of U.S. anti-proliferation efforts and the message to our allies and potential adversaries that we mean business on ensuring the safe, benign global development of nuclear energy, it is essential that we view the Cienfuegos nuclear project as a litmus test of American political will for the 21st century.
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Consequently, to preserve the credibility of U.S. anti-proliferation efforts and the message to our allies and potential adversaries that we mean business on ensuring the safe, benign global development of nuclear energy, it is essential that we view the Cienfuegos nuclear project as a litmus test of American political will for the 21st century.
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Among other factors, U.S. credibility is undermined by our timidity to test our own nuclear weapons on our own soil in fear of international objections and protests by Martin Sheen and other Hollywood 1960s retreads.
Gore's assertions that all is well with our military were so preposterous that they added to his credibility problem.
And we need a fresh start, a new credibility, a president who can bring allies to our side.
Our correspondent says that the boycott is sure to undermine the credibility of the conference because Pakistan is considered by all to be crucial if any peace deal is to be secured in Afghanistan.
Our swift response to North Korea's invasion gave embryonic NATO credibility as a deterrent to Soviet probes in Western Europe.
Although the talks in Gdansk were not directly related to the meeting in Poznan, they are seen as crucial to maintaining the credibility of Europe's leadership on climate change, our reporter adds.
But our reporter says the withdrawal of so many parties has dealt a serious blow to the credibility of these elections.
"One thing the president mentioned today was our long-established credibility in dealing with hooliganism and that's fantastic to hear, " he added.
But turning our attention back to the major platform shift, there are a couple factors that add a little more credibility to the rumor this time.
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Mr O'Neill said that Cosla could "not stand idly by and allow local government's reputation and the credibility of individual councils to take the hit for this because these welfare changes are not of our doing".
What enabled us to take on projects that might not have been hugely profitable but gave us a critical clients and credibility was our holding onto cash.
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