Where to now Tony?
This article by Simon Jenkins in the Guardian sums up the mess we're in and who got us there. There is a necessity for governments to have a nameable enemy which we thought had gone with the end of the cold war. But they have drummed up another one.
[It's also worth reading the comments, much sense, and only 2 or 3 in disagreement]
[It's also worth reading the comments, much sense, and only 2 or 3 in disagreement]
posted by John at 11:54 am
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Interesting.
"Some group or other will always look for ways to commit random killings, against which national security services need to be vigilant. But this is not war...They cannot plausibly deploy weapons of true mass destruction, and remain stuck with the oldest terrorist tool of all, the man with a bomb (and if we are really negligent, with a plane)."
In the end it seems it's just a stalemate. An unhappy one.
Although having said that did you see this link in the comments?
That would be worrying. I guess the government needs to operate on two levels. Publicly playing down the threat and privately taking it very seriously to ensure that such plots are thwarted. I guess they're halfway there. Ish.
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