Shadow Footprints

Ernie is on Mass Transport and Bert looking after the rest of the USA.

It's interesting seeing how the UK deals with this compared to how the US dealt with 9-11. A friend in the UK posted this on Usenet

If you thought the Germans were disciplined you should have seen us today. No tubes, few buses, British Rail trains everywhere except Kings Cross, delayed because of bomb scares and yet everyone left hitching rides or walked home sometimes for hours. Masses of people walking in the early evening sunshine without any grumbles or complaints. And everyone intends to go to work tomorrow - business as usual.

The West End is closed. No theatre performances, no pubs, for the first time, since the Blitz I've heard. I often wondered how the Brits beat the supposedly superior Hitler army in the 1940s. Now I know.

The USA could not conceive of a terrorist attack on it. Pearl Harbor is the worst attack they had suffered and it was in a time of war. England had lots of bombings, from the time of the Blitz of World War II to the IRA bombings in the seventies and eighties (paid for by money from Irish-Americans but we're not supposed to mention that).

Terrorists bombing London will fail in their goals to spread fear and to discourage British activity. This was, despite the loss of lives, a failure for the terrorists.