The latest news is that at least forty people have died, and a few more are in a desperate condition. Even so, the terrorists bungled their massacre. The explosions all took place within metres of major hospitals - the bus explosion actually on the front door of the British Medical Association - so help was prompt, abundant and effective. Many lives would have been lost if the bombs had been set off on train lines outside the city centre. And in the matter of civilian morale - all-important in this war - the spectacle of swift, efficient, authoritative intervention by the rescue services served rather to calm than to terrify the population. The enemy communique' about "Britain burning and terrified from east to west" is about as crassly wrong as it is possible to be. The country is calm, and the worst fear of politicians is violence against Muslims, not the kind of fear that seized Spain after the Madrid outrage and put in power a gutless pro-Arab government that promptly gave the terrorists everything they wanted.
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Date: 2005-07-07 07:41 pm (UTC)