2 Responses to “Bombs again”

1. JIm N. Said:
   July 22nd, 2005 at 6:59 am
   

   Wait, don’t we act like nothing has changed, too?

2. Grace Said:
   July 22nd, 2005 at 1:19 pm
   

   Well, we immediately acted like people that were under attack. I don’t think we’re a brilliant population, but I think we responded with a naturalness that I haven’t seen in the English. We didn’t waste a lot of time (at least at the time) assigning pointless blame to our own government, wondering what was the matter with us or counting the minutes until we could go back to watching football and ignoring all of that sordid unpleasantness. Goodness knows that there was something pathetically meaningless about everyone putting flags up everywhere and scrawling God Bless America on any surface they could find — but it was better than doing nothing at all.

   All the same, I do feel like I feel like qualifying my remark. I got the news very late last night and it made me depressed. So what I said was cold. I don’t think the English need to apologize to anybody, but I think that they need to understand that that “Britain can take it” mentality that saw them through the Blitzkrieg is not going to help them defeat terrorism and that defeating terrorism — though it may sound like an ridiculously naive notion — is no longer just a good idea, it’s the law.

   Just my rant, of course.

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