I don't know. If a small attack, a shopping center bombing or something, the media can continue as usual.
But a big attack,,the media might suddenly have to feel the rage of a lot of people.
It is easy to be soft on criminals and lunatics when they aren't in your neighborhood. We have been fortunate for the last five years. That is why the pc is running amok. But an actual attack might change that.
maybe I am just hoping that we would rise to the occasion and kick some butt.
The same people who said "we will never forget" fell to alzheimer's disease less than a year after 9-11.