If any fable fits our fickle condition, it's not Star Wars but _Oblomov_. Presciently, Ivan Goncharov fit the US response to the terror war into his little satire.
We go shopping. We don't leave our bed. We are swindled by everyone around us. We have no concentration. We are full of national apathy. When the nukes hit, we'll call it Oblomovitis.
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