(23 May 2017, 22:10)Straight Shooter Wrote: Bloody hell ! i agree with Harry....100% .
It is refreshing that you fellows are in agreement, but I would think that people are finding this sort of thing tiresome by now, and while I have sympathy for the victims, the future doesn't look promising. I think this op-ed by your Freddy Gray is on point:
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/afte...next-20799
..." In recent years, the British have looked at the many terror incidents that have taken place in France, Belgium and Germany and thanked our lucky stars that our brilliant security services know how to keep us safe. Our attitude has bordered on hubris. Unlike the other Europeans, Brits are more than willing to have our privacy invaded if it means M15 (our domestic security agency) protects us. We still said so a few weeks ago in March, when a maniac in a car ran over and killed people on Westminster Bridge, then charged at Parliament before being shot. This sort of attack proved that the security services were winning, said the pundits. We can’t do much about lone-wolf attackers, but the more concerted, bomb or heavy-armored attacks require meticulous planning, and we haven’t had one of those atrocities since the suicide bombings on London transport in 2005.
It’s still possible that last night’s attack was the work of a lone individual with no links to known terror groups—nobody is crying Islamism quite yet—but all the experts suggest that an individual would have struggled to make the explosive and carry out the bombing without training or support. This raises the question of whether the British security state really is viable."
Freddy Gray, deputy editor of the London Spectator, is a regular contributor to the National Interest.
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