Maybe the European press would put it above the fold too if it was their butts being threatened? I'm genuinely surprised it's been as quiet and uneventful in the States since 9-11-2001. I fear that won't always be the case, however...
All the things we see and hear about happening "somewhere else"...going to be quite a thing if/when it started to occur here (cafes and clubs blown up, people blown up while simply waiting on their bus, random suicide bombers plying their trade at multiplexes or Starbucks on a crowded Friday night, etc.).
That's not an exactly "far out", impossible-to-imagine notion.