Posted on 07/11/2005 10:00:56 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
LONDON — The sickening atrocities were shockingly all too predictable. The former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Stevens warned long ago that they were 'inevitable'. As time went on after 9/11 with no British attacks, police and security experts repeatedly warned that there was no room for complacency and that the only reason attacks had not occurred was because a number of attempts had been foiled.
And yet, despite all this the brutal truth is that in many respects this country has simply not taken the terrorist threat seriously enough. Flinching from the tough-minded measures that cried out to be taken, it failed to take action commensurate with the threat that faced us and which culminated in the 7/7 carnage. Indeed, considering how much was known and anticipated, our failure to act can only be considered the height of incompetence or recklessness, or both. Clearly, we do not know whether the people who carried out these bomb attacks were foreign nationals or home grown terrorists. But in the light of the clear and present danger from terrorists slipping into this country from abroad, the government's failure to secure our borders defies belief.
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Appeasement doesn't work, does it?
DUH!
Oh how I wish Margaret Thatcher was able to speak! And that Tony Blair has sought her counsel as well.
Margaret Thatcher
But in the light of the clear and present danger from terrorists slipping into this country from abroad, the government's failure to secure our borders defies belief."
Margaret Thatcher
I was thinking the same thing.
sorry, I do not understand either of your posts to me.....esp the italicized comments which are not mine.
They are Thatcher quotes that I feel apply to thread.
Oh. I suspect the 2nd one has been clipped, and when spoken it was:
"This lady is not for turning the other cheek"
Me too!
She'd give him an earful.
Me too!
She'd give him an earful.
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