That's even more disappointing in some ways.

Anyway, I don't expect teenagers to obsessively pore over every single detail of current events, foreign affairs or terrorism. I wouldn't want them to spend their childhood cowering in fear under their beds, or their parents to ensure they did. That said, the level of complacency and ignorance of large scale serious threats represented by THAT many kids having to google his name is disturbing on many levels. It kind of makes it easier to understand how, despite the Al Qaeda attack on the WTC in '93, there was so much shock in 2001 that it was even attacked, let alone destroyed. Makes it easier to understand why the second attack succeeded despite so much of their plans, procedures and tactics being common knowledge. I can't help wondering if these kids know how we're never more than about fifteen minutes from a nuclear holocaust, and being very pessimistic about efforts to avert such horrors, make them impossible, in the face of such widespread ignorance and apathy. I'm not saying we should all dwell on the negative, but we should all be aware of it when it can have such dire personal consequences that our collective will could and should prevent. Seriously, there are more important things than iCrap in the world, kids....