I doubt that the perpetrators were trying to tell Brits how to live. Apparently they were just trying to tell Brits not to make war in the Middle East, which is a somewhat more reasonable proposition whatever you think of their way of making the point.
Actually, if Saddam Hussein had managed to organize an air strike on London, it would have had a similar effect in terms of casualties, and it would have counted as a normal act of war.
Sure, it's a horrible thing to happen to the people affected, but Tony Blair could reasonably have anticipated this sort of thing when deciding to join in the war. When you hit people, sometimes they hit back -- whatever the rights and wrongs of the matter.
The Germans did it more thoroughly
Date: 2005-07-08 06:02 pm (UTC)Actually, if Saddam Hussein had managed to organize an air strike on London, it would have had a similar effect in terms of casualties, and it would have counted as a normal act of war.
Sure, it's a horrible thing to happen to the people affected, but Tony Blair could reasonably have anticipated this sort of thing when deciding to join in the war. When you hit people, sometimes they hit back -- whatever the rights and wrongs of the matter.