London Calling
No Silly Site today. Rob woke up around 4 AM, not knowing why. Now we know. Our thoughts are with relatives and friends in the UK. Although he seemed visibly upset and perhaps in shock, Blair's little speech was no help at all, I thought. "We're going to reach the conclusions we were going to reach" (paraphrasing him discussing G8)? Oh, you mean the foregone ones? "Values" and "way of life" bullshit? Terrorist don't give a crap about values and way of life, that's straight out of Falling-Off-Bike Boy's limited vocabulary and worldview. And you can't "defeat terrorism" (that's why it's, you know, terrorism), you can only work to prevent its continued occurrence. And part of that is reassuring your people, not scoring political points.
No Silly Site today. Rob woke up around 4 AM, not knowing why. Now we know. Our thoughts are with relatives and friends in the UK. Although he seemed visibly upset and perhaps in shock, Blair's little speech was no help at all, I thought. "We're going to reach the conclusions we were going to reach" (paraphrasing him discussing G8)? Oh, you mean the foregone ones? "Values" and "way of life" bullshit? Terrorist don't give a crap about values and way of life, that's straight out of Falling-Off-Bike Boy's limited vocabulary and worldview. And you can't "defeat terrorism" (that's why it's, you know, terrorism), you can only work to prevent its continued occurrence. And part of that is reassuring your people, not scoring political points.
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