“In the grand scheme of things, the projections of ISIS on the world don’t really amount to much”
We live in an open, unguarded culture. It only takes one or two individuals to catapult the populace into terror and angst. Recall the Beltway Snipers and the tense focus they caused? Incidentally, this is a quote from the Wiki article on them: “A series of trial exhibits suggested Malvo and Muhammad were motivated by an affinity for Islamicist Jihad.” We’ve entered an era of asymmetric warfare by individuals and organizations (some of which Obama is financing) against not the military or a nation, but the civilian populace. It doesn’t take a significant number of deaths to tie up the populace and to prevent people from going about their normal lives (evidence TSA). My sister is fond of saying that we can only live as well as our neighbors will allow.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks
You make a very good point. To which I'd add: ISIS will not be content with rifle-based attacks. They're certainly planning for something on a larger scale, like the Boston bombings and beyond.
Unfortunately, we are still in a 1930's mindset. The Nazis? They're just disagreeable little people who are doing some disagreeable things in a land far away.
what you said is true however the storm of the day always passes with a new one. The storm dejour is mostly media hype to get paid. They earn a living by daily hype of something to create the interest and angst.
Were they to begin a story of the day concentrating on black on black urban subculture murder, there might be revolution