Articles call them terrorists today when yesterday they were militants or something nicer.
The Times's and their ilk's treasonous defeatism may get shriller as their numbers get fewer.
It is a war and we will win.
The last 2 days we had a workshop with a number of our London colleagues and we were having a lovely time celebrating London winning the Olympics (and
the French LOSING) and now this dreadful news of those bombs. They were very matter of fact and recalled the IRA bombings and wanted to get on to business once they knew all their families were fine.
They don't call it Great Britain for nothing.
I also found a few of Andrew Sullivan's posting very uplifting. I especially liked his 1939 quote of C.S. Lewis about the importance of living life fully, especially during dangerous times ...
"I think it important to try to see the present calamity in a true
perspective. The war creates no absolutely new situation: it simply
aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it.
Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice. Human culture
has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more
important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and
beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun... The
insects have chosen a different line: they have sought first the material
welfare and security of the hive, and presumably they have their reward. Men
are different. They propound mathematical theorems in beleaguered cities,
conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on scaffolds,
discuss the latest new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb
their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache: it is our nature."
Keep living well and let's all try to show that "London Pride".
Thanks for posting that.