The Mumbai massacre is a wake-up call for a frightenly unprepared Britain. . .

The Daily Telegraph ^ | December 1, 2008 | Melanie Phillips

[Cindy]

I agree.

[tomkat]

Gordon Brown said . . .'Mumbai'. . .had raised 'huge questions' about how the world should address violent extremism

'Apply directly to forehead'

[Deo volente]

When I suggest to people that there is an increasing danger of nuclear weapons being placed in our cities and detonated by these maniacs, they just look at me like I’m out of my mind.

People are more concerned with how the market will do tomorrow or buying the latest gadget than worrying about the ongoing terrorist threat to our nation.

[Leisler]

[Deo volente]

According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Pakistan has about 60 nuclear warheads, as of 2007:

http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/k4q43h2104032426/?p=1a17a0f9e4e14fa48f55700d1e8e9e7d&pi=1

There is a link on this page to a pdf file of the relevant article.

[ctdonath2]

Good observation, but reason won’t apply. One nuke goes off in anger and the world will freak.

That said, I also note how much life goes on in even the most extreme oppression.

[cricket]

So true/lol. . .and yes, we too, look through the 'glass, darkly' to a future where 'prepared' takes on less than viable options. . .

Re-making 'males' into poltically correct' versions never a good idea.

Remember, not too long ago; a bar tender in Italy lamenting the loss of opportunity to use his 'skills' as he offered that the 'art of drinking' was lost; that few; and certainly fewer Americans; knew how to drink anymore. He had written a book about the 'art' (which I have; but cannot entirely appreciate as it is written, of course, in Italian/lol But did get his more salient points, nonetheless. . .)

[Cacique]

btt

[momincombatboots]

I am not so sure about that. If there was even one camera phone near a jury would call that excessive force. Our policemen are just as constrained as anyone else.

[bboop]

Read a report that ‘the policemen in India are unarmed or armed with bamboo sticks’ and that ‘gun permits in India are so difficult to obtain that the security guards at the hotels were unarmed.’ I think it is the ‘British’ way they inherited/ embrace today, of having unarmed policemen.

I don’t know if this applies to the policemen at the train station, but I bet it does. Were those guns loaded?

[bboop]

“You are in jeopardy of being labeled a bit over the top” — that is because people in denial resist with maximum strength having the Truth spoken into their denial.

[papertyger]

People never accept damage to their ego unless there is a threat to damage more than their ego.