If it were so, if the public were aware of the reality at least in broad strokes, and if the media simply just didn't report on things everybody knew were going on... how would you explain the outcry after the Bataclan shooting that "they attacked us", and "now we're at war" -- while that same morning, just as every morning in the preceding month, French Mirages rained death on Syria? How would you explain the ludicrous notion that our soldiers and officials, when they are killed on our soil, are victims of terrorism, not casualties of the war we choose to wage?

Perhaps it is because quite to the contrary, the public doesn't think we're at war at all. We're just killing off terrorists who aim to harm us, with surgical, precision strikes.