I'm glad no Mudcatters were directly affected by the London attacks, but obviously there are now many people whose world was shattered by them.

The attacks were not only vicious and completely unjustified, but, as several posters have already noted, they will not even have the effect the terrorists wanted.

These terrorists don't even think--they should know that attacks on civilians do nothing but bond those civilians together more tightly in opposition to the attackers and their cause---as well as energizing the country's military to carry on the struggle. Historically that has virtually always been the case, the only recent exception being the Spanish railway attack, which was vastly different, for the reasons McGrath has cited.

I heard an extensive interview with a leader of the Moslem community in the UK on Thursday evening. He said that he and every other Moslem leader in the UK condemns all terrorism, and these attacks specifically. The more Moslem leaders make this sort of statement the better.