We did deal with it, with about as much indifference as 3000 deaths over four states in a single blow could allow. But initially, there was remarkably little psychotic claptrap. Even Rudy Giulianni, whom you unfairly characterize as running around like a chicken with his head cut off, showed a great deal of restraint, calling for calm and doing the only sensible things he could: ask people who weren't already part of the emergency response to stay home and wait for what was left of the city's first responders to sort things out. What else was he supposed to do, and how did that qualify as some sort of panic?
Then the Only President We Got showed up and told us all to go shopping. I know who I blame for the jingoistic psychosis the nation experienced in reaction to 9/11, and it isn't Giulianni. Likewise, I know that Mr. Blair's Home Secretary, Mr. Clarke, has taken 7/7 as an opportunity to admit that his national ID scheme wouldn't have done anything to prevent yesterday's bombings, but nonetheless, this is why the UK needs national ID cards and a curtailing of civil liberties in general.
Sure sounds like someone over there is overreacting to me. He's just doing it while using words of more than two syllables.
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Date: 2005-07-08 06:12 pm (UTC)Then the Only President We Got showed up and told us all to go shopping. I know who I blame for the jingoistic psychosis the nation experienced in reaction to 9/11, and it isn't Giulianni. Likewise, I know that Mr. Blair's Home Secretary, Mr. Clarke, has taken 7/7 as an opportunity to admit that his national ID scheme wouldn't have done anything to prevent yesterday's bombings, but nonetheless, this is why the UK needs national ID cards and a curtailing of civil liberties in general.
Sure sounds like someone over there is overreacting to me. He's just doing it while using words of more than two syllables.