Last week Sir Ian Blair, the head of the Metropolitan Police, described 'the threat of another terrorist attempt' as 'ever present' adding that 'Christmas is a period when that might happen. It is a far graver threat in terms of civilians than either the Cold War or the Second World War,' he said. 'It's a much graver threat than that posed by Irish Republican terrorism.'(emphasis mine)Unbelievable that someone would actually say that. Goodness me, I had no idea that the terrorist threat was capable of destruction on the same scale as global thermonuclear war and anhialation of the human race!
But insulting to his countrymen, Mr. Blair has apparently forgotten about the Blitz, in which 40,000 British citizens died, and 1500 were killed in one day. I'm sorry, but I don't see al Qae'da even reprising their success of September 11, let alone managing to kill 40,000 people in a sustained campaign.
I don't mean to dismiss terrorism, it is real and we need to deal with it, but setting up false equivalencies does not perform any valuable service whatever, it just makes the person setting them up look like a blooming idiot.
As British Parliamentarians are so fond of shouting from their seats while some proper Lady or Gentleman tries to peddle a sows ear by packaging it as a silk purse...Rubbish!
