[Mb-civic] We Are (Still) Not Ready - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

We Are (Still) Not Ready

By Colbert I. King
Saturday, July 9, 2005; Page A15

The front pages of The Post, the New York Times and the Wall Street 
Journal on Thursday brought all the big news of the day but, of course, 
not a word about the London terrorist attacks. That's because the bombs 
exploded after the newspapers went to press. Nonetheless, the absence of 
any terrorism-related story in space normally reserved for news with 
broad impact was striking. We learned an important lesson on Sept. 11 
and were reminded of it by last year's Madrid railway bombings and again 
with this week's attacks in London: Terrorism is a continuing, deadly 
international problem, and we don't know the day or the hour it will strike.

Islamic jihadists, we seem to forget, haven't limited themselves to 
creating havoc in Iraq and Afghanistan. America and the West remain on 
their list of targets. Yet until and unless some horrific event such as 
London comes along, Americans don't act like a nation living on the edge 
of peril.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070801684.html
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