MWB doesn't have the political, social, or religious philosophy of the typical Londoner. And that's what makes our world a special one. When Westerners disagree, they usually do not go and bomb one another to bits. They debate. They argue. They vote. But they do not bomb. I was once advised by a friend to get an Irish passport. Since my ancestors are nearly all Irish, my father could get one, I could get one (incidentally, this turned out not to be true). We joked that I would never be a target of the hijackers with an Irish passport. That the middle eastern terrorists feel some kinship with the Irish, repressed as they are by the British, and the battle they have waged against them. I was bemused by this tidbit of the world, a world foreign to most Americans since we live in such a vast, vast place surrounded by food, shelter, all cultures, all religions. All the religions you could name in the whole world have a sect, group, congregation, mosque--we could go on for-eveerrrr--in the US. We don't think of the world in terms of who likes who; the slaughter in Serbia of one group by another, the hacking of life and limbs (literally) by one group on another, just totally foreign to us no matter what Jesse Jackson and his black Mafioso would say. I will never again grin slightly at the prospect of mano-a-mano with middle eastern terrorists. I will never again find it chuckle-worthy that they feel the Irish terrorists are cut from the same cloth, fighting the same good fight. The Irish terrorists who blew up so many people, shot them, bashed kneecaps off, and funded murder are not funny at all. That they could possibly have a kinship with middle-eastern homicidal maniacs is horrifying. I now throw them in the same stockpile; the one worthy of some gasoline and a match. I won't lie and say the US is some harmonious, prejudice free garden of invisible skin color Eden. No way. Yet even amongst the vilest of our racists, civility is the rule of the day. Our most dangerous places are not so because of religion, but poverty and the unchecked disintegration of families who take care of each other. The world is not a perfect place and the US is no exception. But the typical citizen, let's say well over 98% on a conservative estimate, would never agree with the murder of innocents on a subway to prove a point. Quite the opposite with the homicidal maniacs; quite the opposite. We sit here behind our PC monitors and our hearts go out to you. No matter what Britain did or didn't do, no matter how much we hate French people, no matter how two-faced and good-for-nothing we think the UN is, we would never bomb them, we would never murder innocent citizens to prove the point, and nobody, NOBODY, deserves to die in this way except the homicidal maniacs themselves.