[Loyal Buckeye]

"An occasional terrorist attack is one of the costs of doing business in the modern world. You just have to bring a sense of proportion to the problem, as people in Europe do in general.

Russians also are pretty cool about the occasional terrorist attacks..."

Chalk up one writer for Edwards.

[traderrob6]

I wonder if the Press would be so flippant had it succeeded.

[Dreagon]

Btw, this is the new meme that the left has agreed on spreading around. You can find it at several left wing blogs recently if you look for it.

Basically belittle any threat that terrorists pose, and even present terrorists as kind of a bumbling, harmless three stooges act.

[Hornet19]

“An occasional terrorist attack is one of the costs of doing business in the modern world. You just have to bring a sense of proportion to the problem, as people in Europe do in general.”

Better put some ice on that.

[mgc1122]

Perhaps if one sets off a car bomb outside Edwards’ office, or home, then we can judge how unwaivering his assessment on terrorism as a “cost of doing business” remains.

[Always Right]

This is what underestimating terrorists attacks leads to

[ladtx]

Poor Gwynne doesn’t seem to understand the concept that an incompetent terrorist can kill you just as dead as a competent terrorist, it may just take him more attempts to get it right.

[ClearCase_guy]

There has been only one major terrorist attack in the United States since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, and that one, on 9/11, is almost six years in the past. So how have Americans been persuaded that their duty and their destiny in the 21st century is to lead the world in a titanic, globe-spanning "long war" against terrorism?

Clueless.

[muawiyah]

The conclusions in this article are in error.

The terrorists were quite competent and all of their devices should have worked as designed.

However, the cellphone service didn't support the mission.

There can now be no doubt that the only way you can get good cellphone service in Central London is to be inside or very nearly inside a building. This is a sign that the Brits have installed devices throughout the area that suppress cellphone signals from the Cell to the handset.

Their airports seem to be equally well-guarded with this new technology.

[DB]

What a complete idiot.

What does she think started the Chechnya war???

And what exactly does she think the “cost of doing business” was in New York on September 11, 2001?

One of these days a a city is going to go up in a flash of light - then what you do you imbecile?

[blam]

"Chalk up one writer for Edwards."

It's just a bumper sticker.

[Clam Digger]

America overestimates terrorist threats while Europe deals with them

Yeah, they deal with it by taking it in the shorts like a new guy in prison general population.

[Obadiah]

I reccomend saving this little gem and pulling it out the next time the blood of many innocent Americans is shed by terrorists and e-mailing it back to this self-absorbed leftist.

Apparently, after the murder of 3,000 people on 9/11 America wasn’t as cool about it as the Russians are. I guess we have a lot to learn about being cool from leftists like this guy, huh?

[Obadiah]

I guess I'm not as cool about terrorism as old Gwynne.

[CaptRon]

Well, I guess that’s in then. We just have to accept it and live with it.

This guy does his own visual colon examinations.

[Man50D]

An occasional terrorist attack is one of the costs of doing business in the modern world. You just have to bring a sense of proportion to the problem, as people in Europe do in general.

This type of thinking in Great Britain and Europe has allowed Islamic terrorism to spread. I can't remember who said but the statement was something to the effect "We have to be right all the time but the terrorists have to be right only once".

[Brilliant]

One of the main reasons the Brits stopped these terrorists is that they have security cameras on every street corner. If something like this happened in the US, not only would we not stop it, we wouldn’t even know who did it.

[metesky]

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent leftist journalist whose articles inanities are published in 45 countries.

The Bangor Daily Snooze has been publishing this guy's trash for years. He's as left as left can get.

[pgkdan]

In almost all of these countries, despite the efforts of some governments to persuade the population that terrorism is an existential threat of enormous size, the vast majority of the people don't believe it.

Which is just one in a long litany of reasons why Europe is doomed. Unless there is a sea change in European attitudes, a 'European' Europe will be a lost cause in 15-20 years. The Islamists are winning and the Eupropean people are too dense to see it.

[DocH]

What Fred Thompson, and others, have said about the ultimate threat they most assuredly DO want to deploy if/when they get their hands on one - a nuclear device - is what makes ALL the difference in the world between being NOW and THEN (WWII, etc.). If I were a radical islamic fascist (read that, ragheaded terrorist) and wanted to kill all the infidels, hell, I'D want to find/buy and USE a nuclear device in a major Western city or two, or three.

There IS a WOT, you left-wing, euro-weenie, pacifist dolt moonbat "independent journalist" from MB (mediocre britain).

There WAS a terrorist war against us before, and for many years. The difference now is that we (as USUAL, mainly us Americans) are FINALLY joining the battle and taking it to the enemy.

Worthless, mindless twits like this writer (and many more moonbats like her) would have us sit and take it with little or no response.

Ain't gonna happen.

[Krankor]

You just have to bring a sense of proportion to the problem, as people in Europe do in general.
Kinda like the sense of proportion demonstrated by the Spanish people after the Madrid bombings- they kicked out the presiding government three days later and immediately pulled out of Iraq. To many Europeans, surrender is the proportionate response.