[Peace-discuss] Terror threat levels of nations

[Bill Strutz]

    Thanks for the John Cleese skit -- hilarious!

    It reminds me that I've been reading a novel about the Blitz in 1940.*
Bombs were coming down on London almost every night. During one phase, the
Luftwaffe plastered port cities as far west as Bristol. Then V-1s started
raining down on Kent.
    The English girded their loins and muddled through.  They went onto
rationing. By the end of the war, they could not even buy clothing.  Many
camped out in subway stations on most nights. Many sent their children out
into the countryside.  More than a million houses were destroyed.

     There have been other times when England was under siege; notably the
IRA bombings.  The English girded their loins and carried on.

     Contrast that with the cowardly reactions of the US after 9/11.
     Why should the terrorists strike the US again?  Their mission actually
is accomplished: The US could not possibly be more hysterically
panic-stricken, even 9.5 years later.

     All I can do is shake my head.

-- Bill

* Connie Willis, two-part novel (1100 pages, yikes!) "Blackout" and "All
Clear"

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