I was barely awake this morning when I heard news of the London bombings. My thoughts go out to my readers in the UK; I hope all is well with you and your loved ones. I suppose the only consolation we have is that the number of casualties could have been much, much worse. I’m beginning to wonder if this sort of thing is going to become a grim annual occurrence. A Western city is bombed, it’s news for a couple weeks, and then people are slowly lulled into a sense of security until the next bombing. And how long will it be until another attack on American soil? I get the sense that most Americans still see 9/11 as a fluke event. We certainly don’t have the same familiarity with terrorism that many European countries have acquired over past couple decades.
