I well remember the 6 a.m. call from London on September 12th. The caller said the attack on the 11th should prompt Americans to rethink our policies in the Middle East. I thought to myself it will be interesting to revisit this conversation when her next door neighbor is forced to choose between being burned alive or jumping out a window to certain death, and the Houses of Parliament are a pile of smouldering ruins.
Strange comment from London re 9/11. The Londoners who lived through the blitz - and later the IRA campaign against civilians and animals - were not calling for a change of policy against the Nazis or the IRA.
Since the terrorist attacks in September, I have spoken to friends in London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Newcastle, Leicester and the reaction is just the same as here - horror, sympathy for the victims and a determination not to bow to terrorism.