Web Reaction

Jeff Goldstein asks; "Question: what are the chances we roll back the PATRIOT Act now, do you think?"

Hitchens responds:
My son flew in from London at the weekend, and we were discussing, as we have several times before, why it hadn't happened yet. "It" was the jihadist attack on the city, for which the British security forces have been braced ever since the bombings in Madrid. When the telephone rang in the small hours of this morning, I was pretty sure it was the call I had been waiting for. And as I snapped on the TV I could see, from the drawn expression and halting speech of Tony Blair, that he was reacting not so much with shock as from a sense of inevitability.

...Older Londoners are of course raised on memories of the Nazi blitzkrieg, and a younger generation remembers living through a long campaign of bombings by the Provisional IRA. This latest challenge is far more insidious, however, because the ambitions of the killers are non-negotiable, and because their methods so exactly match their aims.

Indymedia Watch did a great job (as usual) today with tracking the looney lefty reaction.

Tom Hanna has thoughts about our Congress' response as opposed to the response of Britain's Parliament on 9-11.

Michele Catalano has done an outstanding job today and deserves much praise.