I'm afraid I have to agree. I remember after 9/11 there were muslims dancing in the streets in Hoboken (New Jersey) looking over at the crumbling World Trade Center. While these people themselves would not necessarily carry a bomb or kill anyone, they certainly were glad that someone else did. It's a very hard mentality to understand, and very few have stood up to explain or condemn this behavior.
The other issue here for me is that living in New York I can tell you that there is virtually no security in this city. While we can argue about whether the "regime change" in Iraq is the right thing to do or not, I can't find a legitimate argument for going to Iraq when we haven't FIRST secured our own borders. The same could be said for the UK. Think of how much security could be bought for the BILLIONS of dollars we are spending in Iraq, forcing our way of life on others. A small percentage of that directed toward real security might have prevented this attack, and the one that is likely to happen again in New York.
Anyhow, all that aside, my heart truly goes out to London. I was sick to my stomach when I heard the news. Inasmuch as the US likes to pretend the world never existed before us, I think of England as our parent, which it truly is, and this was an attack on our family.
