I wanted to share this editorial I found on the website of WHAS, our local TV station here in Louisville.         14 years ago, Americans learned they can't ignore the terror of extremists.  Fourteen years ago, the United States suffered a shockingly  successful surprise attack by a little known Islamic extremist group  based 7,000 miles away in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Since  then, a U.S. invasion chased al-Qaeda out of its haven, and targeted  strikes eventually eliminated most of its senior leaders, including  Osama bin Laden in 2011. The danger from the group that killed  nearly 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, has waned.   Its influence  lives on, however, through offshoot extremist groups that have eclipsed  al-Qaeda — none more so than the Islamic State, the lightning spread of  which through Syria and Iraq has been marked by medieval barbarity,  adapted to the Internet age.    Read More              Source:   http:...