The old Norwegian who taught me mechanics one time said that he had seen a teenaged couple driving down the road while kissing. In his view, the boy "wasn't paying enough attention to one of them." Sometimes during commute times around Seattle, I see somebody driving, drinking coffee, smoking, talking on a cell phone, and even putting on makeup - a very dangerously divided attention.
In a post-9/11 world, to lose sight of the opening battles in a clash of civilization and rationality versus chaos and superstition is equally as dangerous.
