Alfred de Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is'nt your attitude quite defeatist, Gabe (Blaming > Tony Blair for the terrorist attacks in London). > > Coming from an ex-service(?) man, it depresses. > Mario adds: This unfortunate attitude blames any and everyone but the perpetrators of this dastardly and cowardly attack on innocent civilians. In Britain it is the modern day equivalent of the attitude of Neville Chamberlain who thought he could appease the Nazis. The recent US equivalent was President Bill Clinton, who thought he could look the other way after Osama Bin Laden declared war on America and then levied a series of escalating attacks on US interests starting and culminating in New York, reading the non-response as weakness.
These are Islamo-fascists we are dealing with here, not some benign nationalists, and they are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way, even innocent Muslims as part of their indiscriminate attack on random civilians, and targeting Muslims in Iraq to deny them freedom and democracy. Similar to the sneak attacks on 9/11, the Al Qaeda cowards did not attack the government that Tony Blair leads, or its institutions, they indiscriminately attacked average people who were just going about their daily lives. Al Qaeda was successful in influencing Spain with just one attack, but if British leaders like London Mayor Ken Livingstone, and Tony Blair are any indication the majority of Brits are going to respond in exactly the opposite manner, with more resolve, not less, other than those who think like Gabe, who the Brits should be grateful is an ex serviceman.