Americans worry more about being blown up now than when thousands of Soviet ICBMs with multiple nuclear warheads were pointed at the United States.
These days, we live under the constant fear of being the next victim of a random act, a mentality that makes us more fearful and less generous to strangers and forces changes in behavior that cost us all time and money.
I sincerely doubt this generalization. American's were much more afraid of nuclear holocaust than a bunch of silly, ignorant, sheep herders with AK47s and Semtex.
This is just a liberal pushing the liberal scare tactic. Americans are prepared for terrorist scum, and we've rounded up a number of local operatives, unlike the UK and Europe, who keep welcoming them to their countries, and calling them freedom fighters, and heros.
People under 30 have no clue how dangerous and serious the Cold War really was.