I can understand why the families of those killed in iraq and other places want revenge….
but dont believe at all that all that the people who carry out these attacks are actually “acting on the behalf of all innocent iraqis”…. many are the same people carrying out the attacks in iraq on civillians (which I agree does not get enough publicity) some are rich kids from Saudi Arabia and even the UK with chips on their shoulders, they are often just doing it for the enjoyment of watching people suffer, they are the same as the muggers in the London parties etc but better equipped….
they want to be warlords rather than liberators…
I don’t like to play the race card but remember that I am Asian and I have come across these groups before… they try to recruit people in London universities and colleges.
the islamic militants are in Malaysia as well stirring up trouble (some of my family are musicians and they have problems with the militants shutting down and trashing gigs)
but on all the sides, east and west its the ultimate macho fantasy once again – a bunch of angry young (and not so young) men using the rest of the world as pawns whilst they play their power games and other innocents getting hurt
they don’t even have the courage to take the war to the world leaders or G8 (because they know there is stacks of security), they just attack normal people in London
a few more western bodies doesn’t even the score.. – the west has enough firepower to turn Iraq to rubble, and eliminate any of the population that poses a threat. The only reason it does not do so is that the oil would go up in flames..
and we are dealing with people who don’t actually want a place at the table, they want to blow the table and everyone sitting at it sky high…
this event won’t make Londoners cave in, it will make them stronger – in the same way that bombs on baghdad and falluja will only make iraqis stronger and more determined to fight. all this incident has done is taken the war to street level, like locals vs asylum seekers after a weekend binge-drinking (I bet there’s gonna be a bit of that this weekend in cities around the UK now!)
we can understand why these things happen – and certainly foreign policy must change so as not to encourage people in other nations to be driven to desparate measures but we should never accept violence as routine.
otherwise everyone will feel they have a right to respond in kind.
Britain’s people and authorities often forget that muslim extremists (or the IRA) aren’t the only peopel who can turn to terrorism, and even “normal criminals” are starting to use IEDs (commonplace in Liverpool for instance)
Remember the last attack on London was a white man acting for the extreme right…
how long before an activist event such as a march or even a party gets turned over?
