Agreed! The media talking heads with megaphones shouting "terrorism" makes it seem like a much larger problem than it is. How does a geographically isolated nation with a military over one million strong, that spends hundreds of billions of dollars on defense and intelligence feel threatened by a band of rag-tag fighters in the desert? And, why, as you point out, aren't more people concerned about the very real and fixable problems that they face every day?