Middle East terrorists and militia HAVE a base of operations, networks, sponsoring countries, homebases, and are (usually) part of the population they operate from where they have cohorts, connections and sympathizers they can blend into and/or be sheltered by.
Meanwhile, anti-terror ops are looked at by these people as foreign (Western, American) infidel interlopers who for the last century have been trying to reshape their societies solely for their own exploitation reasons in what had been a peaceful area until WWI.
If you think wide swaths of the US would willingly drop 'Walmart Culture' in favor of lights out and starvation for the sake of some terminally unemployed drunken losers with absolutely no goals or futures of any worth fighting against, um, Disney Mermaids, commercials with mixed raced families on the Superbowl Halftime, and yesteday's already passe obnoxious Tik Tok viral video sensation chugging a can of beer, someone's been lying to you.
But again, say if somehow there were actual locales where everybody or close to it were all for civil war. Half a week of winter blackout in Texas or springtime in Hurricane Alley shows how far places can get before people start screaming for FEMA & the Federal Gov't to come to the rescue.
