The London Bombings should put attention back on Iraq

[Windy]

And back on DSM, Plame and this corrupt, lying administration!

The people of London don't deserve this!

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

1. The people of London don't deserve the Tube under NORMAL circumstances.

Sometimes it seems like terrorist bombings aren't that much worse than the normal state of the system. Ancient and rickety don't begin to describe it.

[Windy]

2. I've been to london a few times

its no worse than our subways in New York and Chicago.

And that is beside the point isn't it.

[CanuckAmok]

3. It also survived the best efforts of the Luftwaffe and the IRA.

There's nothing wrong with the LU.

[globalvillage]

4. I always thought the London underground

was very efficient. I took two 14 year olds to London and they were able to navigate the tube quite easily. Of course, we were just tourists, and not in any great rush.
Certainly better than driving in the city, isn't it?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. The horror of driving in London...

...is why people are willing to deal with the Tube. :)

[globalvillage]

7. Tell me about it.

I tried to cross Abbey Road and take a picture. (The kids were going through a Beatles phase).
Do they speed up at the intersection near the studio just for the tourists?
I swear I saw one of them grin just after he clipped me.

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[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Easy to navigate, but it breaks down quite often

and being stuck in a tube train in the afternoon rush hour in summer is an approximation of hell. Half an hour of having your nose jammed a few inches from someone's smelly armpit.

[bigtree]

8. I think that they escape accountability for their security failures

because of the natural inclination of folks to show the attackers a defiant face. To assert that folks aren't afraid as some have is noble and brave, but it is not universally true.

There are consequences to Bush and Blair's militarism. It would be different if most of their countryfolk supported their imperialism in Iraq, but most don't. Confrontations with angry, vengeful citizens of that region and their supporters here and in England may well have been avoided by a more rational foreign policy approach which would have emphasized diplomacy more than it did conquest.

Now, no matter how much rhetoric about how we aren't cowed or affected by the violence, we are witnessing the continuation of the perpetual war that Bush fostered, and which he intends to use to elevate himself, his friends, and his party.