Bombs again

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  • JIm N. 07.21.2005

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

  • Grace

    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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