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July 07, 2005
Some worthwhile quotes
I very much like Donald Rumsfeld's official statement on the London bombings. Here's a sample:
But if these terrorists thought they could intimidate the people of a great nation, they picked the wrong people and the wrong nation. For generations, tyrants, fascists, and terrorists have sought to carry out their violent designs upon the British people only to founder upon its unrelenting shores.Before long, I suspect that those responsible for these acts will encounter British steel. Their kind of steel has an uncommon strength. It does not bend or break.
Contrast the terrorist's imagination as depicted in the message claiming responsibility...
"Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters."
...with the reality related by a Londoner's email to NRO's The Corner:
We have faced terror before - Nazi terror, Irish Republican terror - and have not been beaten. This will not beat us either.The overwhelming feeling round our office is "Is this best they can do?" - it looks and sounds much worse on 24hr news channels than in person.
Finally, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak characterized the terrorists well, describing the murderer of Egypt's envoy to Iraq as, "terrorism that trades in Islam but knows no nation and no religion"
Destroying a train or a bus is a long way from destroying a great nation. The people who build free nations and defend free nations are the courageous ones.
Posted by Jay on July 7, 2005 at 03:34 PM | Permalink
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It would seem that the terrorists understand us about as well as we understand them (read: Not well at all).
This kind of attack is precisely the kind of thing that gets us motivated - "us" to include the British. These terrorists are only helping to reinvigorate support for our war on terror and, in so doing, bolster flagging support for our war-time President and the British war-time Prime Minister.
They may have discovered a thing or two about many of the formerly great nations of old Europe ~ e.g. Germany and France. Spain reacted in a cowardly fashion to the attack upon her last year, but having lived in and/or traveled extensively to all of these countries, I can tell you: The British are made of different stuff entirely.
My thoughts are with those victims and their families...this, the war on terror, was inevitable and will be considered the war of our time. Can there be any doubt?
Posted by: Timmer | Jul 7, 2005 8:48:24 PM
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