"We're at war, America is at the mall."

Well, whomever is calling that car bomb in NYC a failure, is only seeing a partial picture. It's part of this nasty habit of making light of the fact that extremists almost took out a whole city block.

"I know his family for a long time, and they are very humble people," said Faiz Ahmad, a Pabbi villager. "I met Shahzad a year ago. … I found him to be very calm and quiet."

Wake up. He's not that calm, not that quiet, and in fact ...he's deadly. Why are journalists wasting their times getting quotes like this?