CNN and Fox are covering this atrocity to the exclusion of other news. They have high praise for the efficiency of the emergency services.

With no official casualty reports, it is hard to judge the actual damage. Like most terrorist attacks, this was done as much for spectacle, confusion, and psychological damage as anything else. In worse times, a former prime minister said, "London can take it."

As a New Yorker, my sincere condolences go to all the victims and their families.