Good point!
And how much fear does a guy with a couple guns and a knife cause? Not much in my opinion. People are dead, but people die everyday in our cities from acts of violence committed by American citizens against each other and we carry on as nothing had happened.
The attack, IMO, was meant to be symbolic to the Israelis. El Al is one of the hardest targets around, but this guy found a way to attack it, even if it was on the periphery.
You guys will admit that something happened on 9/11/01 or do you think that this was business as usual?
I believe that we are in a war against forces that wish to see us dead and our way of life dismantled.
The questions that have to be answered, and quickly, are who is doing this to us and what form will future attacks take. Every attack or attempt must be examined with these questions in mind and to dismiss out of hand any questionable event as unrelated to a larger pattern is sheer folly.
As much as we wish that such a thing as Moderate Islam as a religion of peace and brotherhood exists we may well be deluding ourselves. If the shooter's only link to any outside influence is his Mosque and his Muslim friends then this relationship must be scrutinized closely.
When all other conclusions are eliminated the one remaining, no matter how implausible, distasteful or politically incorrect must be true.