Day before yesterday, here in North Carolina, two armed Middle Eastern men driving an American compact car with Jersey plates tried to hijack an 18-wheeler fuel truck by forcing it off the road.
Admittedly a really stupid move, but nevertheless in line with this incident.
What I'm wondering is, if we are indeed at war, and we indeed have domestic terrorist cells operating here in the Homeland, why are the media being so hands-off about all of this?? Have they been asked to play things down so that we don't all go out and start shooting Arabs??
Admittedly the Olympics have been in full swing, and their (the national media's) contempt for the American people makes them doubt that we have the mental capacity to entertain more than one idea at a time, but STILL, if Japanese had tried to hijack a fuel truck, say, in May of 1942, the press would be all over it. And we are surely every bit as much at war as we were then.
Except that we don't appear to have any allies...
Investigators on overtime with the nation on alert
They are aware of these cases; they do agree that they warrant attention; and given the press' interest in "continuing" stories (keeps the readers/viewers coming back for more) it all just seems to be under reported (hey, there's even a car crash and those always make the nightly news).