The American people have an amazing capacity to ignore the important while obsessing on the trivial.
I am not usually a big fan of Terry Gross or her NPR program, “Fresh Air,†but her show from yesterday was unusually good. She interviewed law enforcement expert Tom Diaz and journalist Barbara Newman warn of the presence of Hezbollah militants in the United States. They are the authors of Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil, who say the cells could potentially be more dangerous than al Qaeda, estimate Hezbollah has cells in 14 cities.