In other news, a great embarrassment for the Air Force, and for the US: Military wildly overreacts, bans personnel from London.
I think the Daily Mail said it best:
It was business as usual in brave and resilient London yesterday - though not if you were a member of the world's most powerful military machine.OUCH! There are some great comments at the bottom of this story.The 12,000 US airmen based in Britain have been ordered not to go anywhere near the capital on security grounds.
So much for Mr Bush's encomium yesterday when he said that the 'city that survived the Nazi blitz will not yield in the face of thugs and assassins'. And what a contrast with the defiant way the British continued to flock to New York after 9/11.
We trust the four million Americans who come to London each year are made of sterner stuff than the US Air Force.
I see that this order has now been rescinded...Still...sigh
5 comments:
Are you permitted to thank them for providing content for your blog?
-Nathan
Isn't that what I just did?
Do they know your blog's address?
I meant personally, face to face, possibly with a handshake.
-Nathan
Well, no, not exacty. I didn't want to catch anything from them, or risk my clearance, or anything like that. Cameras are everywhere, you know, and someday a picture of my standing by a sign that said "Bring them home now" would appear and the NYT would make a big deal of it, and it would become a topic for the evening news, and I'd get all sorts of book and movie offers...Wait! I should have! Oh well... But I did have a chance to talk with the nice ladies who stood and waved flags and said "we support our troops".
That makes sense. They probably smelled better, too.
-Nathan
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