Issue:Rush-Hour Strike Wounds Up to 1,000; Blair Sees G-8 Link - New York Times:

Specific:"...No arrests have been made. The attacks were 'deliberately designed to kill and injure innocent members of the public,' Brian Paddick, London's assistant police commissioner said in a news conference"

Comment:"Barbaric" is appropriate. On the highest order.

Some observations
- Barbarians are not defeated with more or different violence.
- London was physically geared to Terrorist
- sepcifically from the Irish Terrorist
- the "Circle of Steel"
- Camera's focused on every square inch of the city

Yet despite the focus - it still happened
American ports are not secure
American chemical facilities are not secure
The President's air space has been violated a number of times in the past couple of months
Only one party is in charge.
And they are spending BILLIONS in a war that had NO TIES to Terrorism.

It is not unlike the scopes Monkey trial and the play "Inherit the Wind"
The event and the play may have served to refocus attention or to reset the perceptions of what is really the concern.

The perception or point of the play is to draw the attention to McCarthyism. The definitions of the war, and the dangers need to be reassessed. "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror" and Tom Friedman's essay's and columns indicate the kinds of things we should be focused on.