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   From: flappers@oneleftwing.com   
      
   Christopher Hitchens delivers a strong antidote to the moonbats   
   blaming the 7/7 attacks on Bush/Blair/Iraq:   
      
   My son flew in from London at the weekend, and we were   
   discussing, as we have several times before, why it hadn’t   
   happened yet.   
      
   “It” was the jihadist attack on the city, for which the British   
   security forces have been braced ever since the bombings in   
   Madrid. When the telephone rang in the small hours of this   
   morning, I was pretty sure it was the call I had been waiting   
   for.   
      
   And as I snapped on the TV I could see, from the drawn   
   expression and halting speech of Tony Blair, that he was   
   reacting not so much with shock as from a sense of inevitability.   
      
   Perhaps this partly explains the stoicism and insouciance of   
   those Brits interviewed on the streets, all of whom seemed to   
   know that a certain sang-froid was expected of them. The   
   concrete barriers around the Houses of Parliament have been up   
   for some time.   
      
   There are estimated to be over 4 million surveillance cameras in   
   the United Kingdom today, but of course it had to be the   
   Underground—”the tube”—and the good old symbolic red London bus.   
      
   Timed for the rush hour, and at transit stations that serve   
   outlying and East London neighborhoods, the bombs are nearly   
   certain to have killed a number of British Muslims. None of   
   this, of course, has stopped George Galloway and his ilk from   
   rushing to the microphone and demanding that the British people   
   be removed “from harm’s way” by an immediate withdrawal from   
   Iraq. (Since the Islamists also demand a withdrawal from   
   Afghanistan, it surprises me that he doesn’t oblige them in this   
   way as well, but perhaps that will come in time.)   
      
   …It is ludicrous to try and reduce this to Iraq. Europe is   
   steadily becoming a part of the civil war that is roiling the   
   Islamic world, and it will require all our cultural ingenuity to   
   ensure that the criminals who shattered London’s peace at rush   
   hour this morning are not the ones who dictate the pace and   
   rhythm of events from now on.   
       
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)