We ignored or covered up many wake up calls in the past.
It's just a shame that 5,000 or so people had to lose their lives for us to realize that we have been at war for a long time already.
Oh, I think it has been realized by many people, judging from posts and replies here over the last three or more years, that we have been at war with middle eastern terrorists for a long time.
It's just that; with most of the government determined to cover it up so they could campaign on easy issues like free drugs for seniors, with most of the news media being socialist enemies of freedom and of the United States, and with most of the citizens either ignorant of the truth or happy to beleive the lies and watch a video or go shopping; what could we do?
I truly beleive that this forum has been one of the top five or ten institutions keeping a quest for the truth in these topics alive. I could go on, but this is just a reply; I don't want to make it a disertation!