One of the bloggers here at TPM asked a very good question on one of my posts, "why can't Afghanistan be used to launch another attack against the USA?"

Good question, why can't it?  For that matter why can't any nation or even a State be used to launch another attack against the United States of America?

Condi Rice(R) recently said the following:

"If you want another terrorist attack in the US, abandon Afghanistan," she said in an interview with Fortune magazine on Tuesday.

U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak(D) said the following:

We can't keep America safe if we let al-Qaida return

President Hamid Karzai warned

The world must remain engaged in Afghanistan until the country manages to stand on its own feet or ''terrorists'' will strike again,

American Legion National Commander Clarence E. Hill said:

"According to The Washington Post, General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. and NATO Commander, is warning us that without more forces within the next year, the mission in Afghanistan 'will likely result in failure.' Considering that Afghanistan was the breeding ground for the 9/11 attacks, we cannot allow that to happen,"

What makes Afghanistan so unique?  Why are these people claiming that if we get attacked again the attackers will most likely come from Afghanistan, especially if we walk away from that war.  If we walk away, the terrorists will unite once again and make plans to attack the U.S..

Why couldn't the same possibility hold true with respects to Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Yemen, Saudi Arabia or for that matter, the United States of America itself?

Didn't we just hear about the U.S. Justice Department arresting two men in the city of Chicago for plotting a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

Didn't we also just hear about an American convert to Islam that charged with a plot to blow up the court building in Springfield in Illinois state and trigger mass murder.
And didn't we just read about a 19-year-old Jordanian man living in Texas that was arrested  on charges he intended to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper.
What about the physicist that recently accused of providing a list of strategic terrorist targets to North African Islamic radicals.

There's also the Sudbury man who was planning to obtain automatic weapons and use these to attack shopping malls.

And there was the three suspects that were arrested in the United States on charges of plotting to set off explosive devices in public places in several U.S. states, the CNN reported.
Couldn't terrorists also be right here in the U.S. plotting to kill others outside the U.S.?  Didn't we just hear about Federal agents arresting seven men in North Carolina for plotting to wage "violent jihad" outside the United States.

This is just a small sampling that were arrested this year in these United States of America. 

Again I say, what makes Afghanistan or Iraq so unique when it comes to plotting the death of thousands?