I have serious concerns about the way George Bush is conducting the war on terrorism, but at least he recognizes we are at war. Britain seems more interested in protecting its British Islamofascists’ feelings than protecting its people from murder and mayhem.
Islamofascists have declared war on the world, and they’ve decided to bomb London at will, which is proving stunningly easy to do since the government won’t racially profile. No commuter will ever feel safe again, and that’s the idea. Britain’s response? They’ve adopted a localized cops-and-robbers approach.
Irwin M. Stelzer, writing for the Weekly Standard, says it’s because Britain fails to recognize its condition:
British culture now dictates a confused response to terrorists. Start with the unwillingness of the majority of the British people to recognize that they are indeed in a war. The flak-jacketed, heavily armed men and women lining my road to Heathrow last week were cops, not troops. America is at war, Britain is playing cops and criminals. These are very different things, with important implications for policy. Just as the Clinton administration decided to respond to terror attacks as if they were bank heists — he sent the FBI overseas — Britain has insisted on applying the law and procedures of the criminal justice system to terrorists. The entire panoply of legal procedures that prevent detention, deportation, and arrest of Muslim clerics calling for the blood of Britain’s infidels is available to the as-many-as 3,000 terrorists whom the authorities estimate live in Britain, many trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan, or with actual battle experience in Iraq. Whatever rights U.K. law doesn’t confer are available to the fledgling jihadists as a result of Blair’s decision to sign on to Europe’s Human Rights Act….The consequences of this equation of multiculturalism with the virtue of tolerance began with a refusal of the Blair government to get control of Britain’s borders. As a result, there are hundreds of thousands — no one, including the government, knows for sure just how many — of illegal immigrants roaming around Britain. And many of these are not at all like the Mexicans who come to America to find work. They are attracted by the generous welfare payments to which they seem to have immediate and unrestricted access, and in many cases by the freedom to preach jihad.
While the brits are careful not to “offend” Muslims, Muslims show their appreciation in blood.
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Dumb Headline of the Day: Police Hold Three in Failed London Attack. What exactly failed? At least one bomb went off, and at least one person was injured. I wonder if the person lying in the hospital considers the terrorist attack a failure…
Update: Meanwhile, back in Gotham City…
(Hat tip: Malkin)
