London

Today's terrorist attacks in London are repulsive and horrifying to the nth degree. That these acts are cowardly and vile go without saying. Of course, the same has been said time and time again for the last 40 years or so, yet terrrorists of all stripe continue to garner enough support to perpetrate these acts. Londoners are tough, however, and if Al Quaeda thinks they'll buckle under a few bombs in the tube, they're sadly mistaken. These folks withstood zeppelin bombings in WWI, the Blitz and an extended terrorist bombing campaign that only just ended a few years back. They're tough, all right, but quietly tough. I think that lulls their enemies into errors in judgement.

And, not to mitigate the awfulness of the attack, but a gallows humor thought hit me almost instantly when I heard the news this morning: The IRA declares a turf war against Al Quaeda, under the rallying cry "You fookin' gobshites can't bomb London! Only we can bomb London!"

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