After London, Just As After Madrid, Our Republican Leaders Fail To Take Mass Transit Security Seriously
What will it take for our Republican leadership to increase spending on mass transit security?
Posted to Politics by David R. Mark on July 16, 2005 12:40 AM
Pew Study Finds Support for Terror Waning Among Muslims
Pew's Global Attitudes Project has just released a new study called "Islamic Extremism: Common Concern for Muslim and Western Publics," which finds that support for terror is waning among the sampled Muslim public, lending some objective support to those...
Posted to Politics by Eric Olsen on July 15, 2005 01:13 PM
Ya Get What Ya Pay For
The jihadists that bombed London last week were "radicalized" and recruited at a government-funded youth center. It was well-known as a hub of Islamic activity in Leeds. So the citizens of London got exactly what they paid for...
Posted to Politics by HE!D! on July 14, 2005 05:48 PM
Death by Stupicide
Home-Grown Terrorism: Call 1-800-TERROR and Free the Culture of Paranoia. Before the recent London bombings we thought we had all the answers covered. But today's news reveals the plot has somewhat thickened. That nice clean-cut boy next door you watched grow...
Posted to Politics by Blog Bloke on July 14, 2005 02:45 PM
Queen - the band - Hails London Emergency Workers
Queen, the newly crowned all-time British album chart champs, had their concert scheduled for July 8 at London’s Hyde Park postponed a week by the terrorist attacks. New lead singer Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company) announced that the concert,...
Posted to Music by Eric Olsen on July 14, 2005 02:21 PM
Make Terrorism History
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Posted to Politics by Marty Dodge on July 14, 2005 07:05 AM
Twenty-Seven Iraqis Murdered By Car Bomber
Are we all Iraqis today? Not surprisingly, Americans opened their hearts last week to our British friends in the wake of the barbaric attacks in London. We saw many expressions of support, but the most common was along the lines of...
Posted to Politics by Earvolution on July 13, 2005 12:01 PM
Why Do Attacks in London Matter More Than Ones in Baghdad?
Phillip Adams of The Australian has an article that raises a good point in the beginning: IT'S a quiet, ho-hum, run-of-the-mill day in Iraq. Just a few bombs will explode in Baghdad. Only a few dozen will be killed...
Posted to Politics by Art Green on July 13, 2005 08:50 AM
Kennedy Says Iraq War Fuels Terrorism
This, the image of the US occupation in Iraq so far. The image shocked the world, and no doubt fuelled hatred against our so called "civilised societies." There...
Posted to Politics by Voice 1 on July 13, 2005 08:01 AM
Article comments
— go to most recent comments1 - Andrew Ian Dodge
Thanks Eric.
2 - Eric Olsen
best wishes Andrew
3 - Dawn
It certainly seems to me that the left's idea of letting the terrorists alone and embracing them with hugs and kisses isn't going to do much at keeping them from trying to kill us.
This one area I strongly support Bush - it is clear that while al Quaeda might be clever, they aren't very smart.
Making enemies around the world isn't doing much for their general popularity. I hope Blair hunts down every single one of them and vivisects them and leaves their corpses rotting in the streets.
Savage motherf*ckers.
4 - Eric Olsen
appeasement is surely not the answer
5 - SFC Ski
This is terrible news, I hope the Brits will find the terrorist cells quickly and take them out.
One thing I doubt the Brits will concern themselves with is, "Why do they hate us?"
6 - bhw
It certainly seems to me that the left's idea of letting the terrorists alone and embracing them with hugs and kisses isn't going to do much at keeping them from trying to kill us.
As a lefty, I can honestly say that I've never advocated hugging or kissing terrorists, or even just leaving them alone.
But I can see now how going after Saddam has taken care of all those terrorists around the globe.
;-)
7 - Eric Olsen
we might as well just give them back Spain and get it over with
8 - SFC Ski
They want the world.
9 - Eric Olsen
couldn't we non-Islamists just move to Mars or something and let them have earth, which clearly Allah has deeded to them?
10 - Andrew Ian Dodge
The interesting irony of course is that there is a major lead-up going on to this Sunday reminding people of Londoners who stood up to Nazism and made it through the blitz. I think it might have an effect on Londoners determination to continue. (Not that bombs are a new thing in London.)
11 - SFC Ski
Well, I can only speak of the Brits that I know; I really this attack making them back down the way the Madrid attacks affected the Spaniards.
12 - Matt
As long as my iPod works on Mars, and you can get Sirius Satellite radio there, I'm game.
13 - Eric Olsen
perhaps this will encourage us all to get over whatever our political reticence is to capture and/or liquidate bin Laden
14 - Eric Berlin
Dawn -- Who on the left is "embracing the terrorists with hugs and kisses"? No one I know, in person or government or public life...
Woke up this morning to the news of the London attacks. Ever since 9/11 (when I witnessed the attacks occur from a San Francisco television station control room) I wake up every morning half-expecting to hear abominable news.
This morning I did.
15 - Nancy
Perhaps it IS time to stop being politically correct, & just start shutting down mosques & deporting muslims back to the middle east they all come from. BTW, I haven't heard a peep from any muslim news source concerning any muslim authorities or organizations whatsoever condemning this latest outrage. Therefore I infer they approve. More reasons to turn them into sheets of nuclear molten glass.
16 - Eric Olsen
I would say Dawn's message is aimed farther left than most anyone around here
17 - SFC Ski
In Iraq, the kidnappers of an Egyptian envoy released a video claiming that the killed him. Probably won't get much press due to the events in London.
18 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
hang on, though, have any of the claims of responsibility actually been verified? an hour ago they were saying that a loada fanatics and groups had claimed they were behind it, but no-one knows yet.
19 - Eric Olsen
perhaps the G8 aspect of this will actually aid the coordination between the nations in the fight against terror - the proximity to the attacks might inspire a few leaders as well
20 - Dawn
My comment is aimed directly at the apologists who think that these attacks are our fault ("our" being Western civilization) for doing what we do best: thriving and being successful.
Unless you are apologizing for that, then clearly I am not talking to you.
21 - Eric Olsen
I say coopt the fuckers even more aggressively than in the past
22 - Eric Berlin
Dawn -- ANYONE who says that is obviously on the fringest of the fringe and barely seems worthy of discussion.
23 - Dawn
Eric B. - Please - there are millions of people who say and think that way, surely they can't be ignored.
24 - Jon Sobel
"the apologists who think that these attacks are our fault"
There are such apologists, but they are a fringe. The problem is, anyone who proposes actually thinking things through and figuring out why things are the way they are - in other words, actually using their brain - is labelled immediately by the knee-jerk Right Wing as being an "appeaser" (cf. Karl Rove's recent ridiculous and offensive "therapy" comment).
25 - Andrew Ian Dodge
JS: You can try to figure out what hell is going on with Islamists without being called an "appeaser". It does help if you don't start by giving them excuses for their behaviour. Trying to understand why people do such things is fine but excusing them is not.