The unasked question

(updated below)

From CNN:

The article notes that a new classified Department of Homeland Security report documents that "the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period."

Maybe, one day, we might want to ask:  "why"?  Is it because they Hate Us For Our Freedoms more than ever before?  Are we Extra Free now, thus increasing...