I look for evidence that we are a country at war, and the closest thing to a war I see are various levels of militancy (largely in foreign lands) while most people in the "Homeland" do as they always do without even knowing how many people from their own town and state have been lost in the most recent days, weeks, months or years. The government is engaged in police actions, but the people are not engaged in a war (or even the police actions underway). The closest most Americans come to a war is the government spending money like a drunken sailor on shore-leave during a war -- and then it's the government spending money we, as taxpayers in a "country at war", aren't paying for with hard cash yet.