As if we need to learn this again...
| By AndrewGarib - Jul 7th, 2005 at 2:32 pm EDT |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
The terror attacks in London (and Madrid, and Bali, and Riyadh, to name a few over the past few years) remind us that we're not doing enough to fight terrorism. Let's not pass up this opportunity as progressives to remind the world what a sensible anti-terrorism policy could look like (we haven't seen one in the US for... years?)
After years of terror attacks by the IRA, this is nothing new to the Brits. This just keeps Al Qaeda on our minds before the next (we can only hope not imminent) attacks on the United States. Let's use this, and Madrid, and all other attacks by Al Qaeda on our allies as the example from which we learn - let's not have to rely on another 9/11 or on more deaths in Iraq to break the learning curve.
After years of terror attacks by the IRA, this is nothing new to the Brits. This just keeps Al Qaeda on our minds before the next (we can only hope not imminent) attacks on the United States. Let's use this, and Madrid, and all other attacks by Al Qaeda on our allies as the example from which we learn - let's not have to rely on another 9/11 or on more deaths in Iraq to break the learning curve.
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that the GOP has a firm (albeit slipping) grasp on
the "who will protect you more" factor, even
though nothing is further from the truth. We have
the right plans, the right goals, and the right
ways to create a safer America--we just need an
image makeover, and perhaps a little help from the
brain-dead media. Progressives have to hammer away
at the lack of domestic security and the massive
and unnecessary insecurity resulting from the Iraq
war.
As you said, I pray that it doesn't take another
9/11, another Madrid, or (now) another London to
make the public wakeup and realize that this
Administration has made us less safe and more
vulnerable to attack. Let's do our part to make
sure it doesn't.