London Under Attack
I woke this dawn from a much needed deep sleep to the sound of my alarm screaming it was 6:30 and time to rise. Still wandering dazed and confused from waking; I poured myself a nice big bowl of cereal and settled down on the couch to see what was on tv for a few minutes before hopping into the shower. My drousiness was quickly blown away when I saw the "BREAKING NEWS" bulletin on every news station. I at first thought that maybe they had arrested another person in the missing Aruban girl case (which definately requires the Breaking News signal), or that the news was going to jump all over the story about President Bush falling off of his bike. However, what I saw was nothing I was ready for at 6:30 on a Thursday morning. Like many cities before it; London was added to the unfortunate fraternity of cities in the world that has endured terrorist attacks. With Tony Blaire's historic third term as PM, London being picked just yesturday to host the 2012 olympic games, and the G8 summit happening in near by Scotland; the stage was set and the world had its eye on the city of London. Though no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, it is widely speculated that Al-Qaeda was behind the planning and carrying out of these attacks. What did the terrorists achieve in these attacks? The terrorists achieved killing more than 40 innocent people today. What is their message? The terrorists believe that if they attack us we will pull our troops out of the middle east, and they believe that they can cause enough panic on a large enough scale to make us bring our troops home to build up a wall of soldiers around our nation. However, the terrorists will never prevail in their scheme. After we were attacked in 2001 we saw the largest surge of patriotism we had seen since world war two. We don't collapse in the midst of danger. When faced with danger we don't hide ourselves in civilian clothing to attack unsuspecting people. When faced with danger we ride out and meet it face to face. We all know the sacrifice millions have given to give us the gift of freedom and we know that it is our responsibility to carry that torch through to the next generation. Shortly after this mornings attacks Tony Blaire issued a statement saying that the British people would not be terrorised, they would not be divided, but they would push on through the fight and prevail for freedoms cause. Today we were grimmly reminded of why we are fighting the battles we are involved in afar, and why those battles are so important. We were reminded that we don't stand invincible from attack, and that we are vulnerable in our confidence of superiority. I hope that this sad reminder will cause the free world to rise back up in strength to take this fight to the men who comitt malicious murder behind the mask of religion, and that these men will be introduced to swift and efficient justice. As americans and people of the free world, our hearts and prayers go out to those effected by this mornings attacks. I would offer this up to these people: look to God for strength and wisdom in the wake of this tragedy for He is the god of comfort.
posted by Eric @ 7:20 PM
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