Irwin Stelzer tears into Britain’s useless attitude to the war being waged against the west:

‘British culture now dictates a confused response to terrorists. Start with the unwillingness of the majority of the British people to recognize that they are indeed in a war. The flak-jacketed, heavily armed men and women lining my road to Heathrow last week were cops, not troops. America is at war, Britain is playing cops and criminals… The entire panoply of legal procedures that prevent detention, deportation, and arrest of Muslim clerics calling for the blood of Britain's infidels is available to the as-many-as 3,000 terrorists whom the authorities estimate live in Britain, many trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan, or with actual battle experience in Iraq. Whatever rights U.K. law doesn't confer are available to the fledgling jihadists as a result of Blair's decision to sign on to Europe's Human Rights Act. Britain makes available to terrorists and preachers of mayhem, often at government expense, an entire industry of human rights lawyers and support groups... So British policy remains: easy entry for potential terrorists; benefits for them while they are in the country; and relative safety from deportation and detention as enemy combatants. Little wonder that Britain's security services say another strike, more lethal than the one last Thursday, is a virtual certainty.’

As Stelzer says Tony Blair — for whom he has previously held a pretty steady candle — goes along with all this, plus the deadly poison of multiculturalism, to this very day. So much so, in fact, that even after the London bombings the response is to avoid a backlash that may upset the Muslims even more. Thus Britain is paralysed, the bungling will continue and its people will remain unprotected.

Posted by melanie at July 25, 2005