WisPolitics Budget Blog

Al Qaida terrorists have claimed responsibility for the London blasts on an Islamic website and said that Britain is burning with fear.

It continued: Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters.

Yea, right. This is a nation that survived the v-bombs of Nazi Germany. Al-Qaida hardly reaches the level of the IRA; a terrorist group that targeted government officials and government buildings. A few well-placed book bags targeting innocent civilians will only serve to further galvanize the West.

As a student in London 40 years after the end of WWII, I shared many pints with locals who survived the bombing of London. The words of Winston Churchill fortified the British then, and his words still ring true today.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.