Friday, Jul 08, 2005 at 18:11
>i know you can't wrap yourself in cottonwool, but sometimes
>its better to play it safe...
When you do that you give in to terrorism. And we should never, ever do that.
Not going is playing into their hands; it's exactly what they want to achieve; to make you frightened.
I lived in the UK when Thatcher gave Reagan permission to use USAF bases in the UK to bomb Tripoli - in the summer following, to their everlasting shame, many Americans cancelled holidays to Europe and particularly the UK.
Once you stop doing the things you normally do then they have won. It's times like this we need courage.
Terrorism will never go away and it will never be curtailed by trying to appease the perpetrators – in any fashion.
The Brits are a tough bunch – the Germans could not defeat them, the PLO couldn’t in the 70s and the IRA have been unable to since the start of the Troubles in 1969. It’ll take more than these bastards to do it. If I had a Union Jack I’d be flying it today.
Mike Harding
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