London calling
Jul. 7th, 2005 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyEveryone okay? (I'm relieved to see all of the Londoners on my friends list posting this morning.)
Analysis later, when more facts come in, but my first impressions are as follows:
• I'm amazed at how calmly the British public seems to be taking this. Let's hope that will extend to the British government.
• Then again, it's not unexpected, is it?
• To me, this illustrates the flaw in terrorism as a strategy. People who have a say in a country's foreign affairs do not take mass transit to work, and most Londoners were against the war. Of course, the myth of electoral politics is that ordinary citizens do have a say in, and consequently, a responsibility for, their government's policies, but they don't, hence the utter cruelty and senselessness of this sort of attack.
I suppose the best we can hope for is a reaction akin to Spain's after the Madrid bombing. In the meantime, thoughts and condolences.
Analysis later, when more facts come in, but my first impressions are as follows:
• I'm amazed at how calmly the British public seems to be taking this. Let's hope that will extend to the British government.
• Then again, it's not unexpected, is it?
• To me, this illustrates the flaw in terrorism as a strategy. People who have a say in a country's foreign affairs do not take mass transit to work, and most Londoners were against the war. Of course, the myth of electoral politics is that ordinary citizens do have a say in, and consequently, a responsibility for, their government's policies, but they don't, hence the utter cruelty and senselessness of this sort of attack.
I suppose the best we can hope for is a reaction akin to Spain's after the Madrid bombing. In the meantime, thoughts and condolences.
