If our networks had the gonads to base a show around the beheadings, something like they used to show GIs about Nazis and Japs in ww2, it would change everything.We're reliving the days of pre-WWII when the Nazis rose to power --- we studied our history books and shook our heads wondering how Hitler and his aides were ever able to climb to such power, how the Nazis were able to almost take over all of Europe --- but it was the same then as it is now --- a lot of people --- especially liberal types really don't care. Just give them their television shows filled with sex and a few big sports events and they don't care. WWII ended up being so long and so many lives were lost because we didn't respond until very late --- people just wanted to close their eyes to the reality and we're doing that same thing.
Bingo, FITZ -- you hit the nail right on the head. I see Europe's current state and America's reaction to it as amazingly parallel to the world situtation around, say, 1936. There are some differences, of course -- the assymetrical nature of the adversary, and the fact that America got hit big first (otherwise we'd still be totally asleep). But we have the same patterns again in how the Europeans are falling over themselves in fear of the U.S. while the cancer is growing dailing in their own backyards, and how many Americans still do not want to face the truth that this is another battle to the death between cultures, if not nations.
I have argued this point with many people I know in various European nations, as well as Canada and Australia, and they simply refuse to see the evidence of their own eyes. They are simply too brainwashed. To me, they are all walking dead men, and they are going to pay a horrific price before they eventually come begging to us to save their self-righteous asses. Again.
All we have to do is watch and wait, and let them be a living laboratory to the rest of the world. And they will. God help them.
