December 7, 1941
Pearl Harbor: Killed: 2,403 MIA: 960 Wounded: 1,178+
September 11, 2001
World Trade Center: Killed: 2,996 Wounded: 6,000+
ISIS Terrorist Attacks since 2013: Killed: 11,414+ Wounded: 4,979+
On December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese, two years after the start of WWII in Europe. Killed: 2,403 MIA: 960 Wounded: 1,178. The United States finally joined their European allies and helped to end World War II on September 2, 1945.
On September 11, 2001, New York City was attacked by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. Killed: 2,996 Wounded: 6,000+ Damage: $10M. The United States, joined by Coalition Forces, overthrew the Taliban forces in Afghanistan by December 2001 and defeated most of al-Qaeda troops by 2004.
ISIS, the successor of al-Qaeda, has killed 11,414 people since 2013 in homegrown terrorist attacks across the world, including the United States. The US military currently has about 11,000 military advisers in Afghanistan, 5,262 in Iraq and 2,000 in Syria, and an additional 1,605 US defense contractors. In August 2017, Trump approved sending an additional 4,000 troops to Afghanistan.
Approximately 1.3 million troops are active somewhere in the world, about 450,000 stationed overseas.
Only time will tell if the current administration is the populist “America First” isolationist he campaigned on, or Neoconservative’s Manchurian candidate.