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I view it with detachment. It is not a nightmare. It is not my reality.
There were actually little old ladies right after 9-11 right out here in the middle of nowhere Texas where I live who worried that "terr'ists" would blow up people gathered at picnic tables at a local lake or something. It borders on psychotic narcissism to think that "terr'ists" even know where Lake O' the Pines is, much less would plan a major "event" there. For one thing, it would take news crews hours to even arrive on the scene to give them their craved-for publicity. And the potential "body count" would always be no more than a couple dozen.
In fact, in vast stretches of Red State flyover country, people actually were delusional enough after 9-11 to think they were threatened with attack. I always found it to be amusing when I saw it in the folks around here, most of whom have gotten over it. The passage of time without anything happening makes even the most naive and simple-minded among us begin to question their assumptions.
Now they will NEVER do enough research (these are people who by and large DO NOT READ anything, even if they can read) to find out that most terrorism is LIHOP or MIHOP, but they have resumed normal life and have a ho-hum attitude about things happening in London (after all, the IRA used to bomb London on a fairly regular basis)
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