John O'Sullivan- Grim Realities

"They will therefore have to be countered on two levels: British security forces will have to learn the intelligence techniques that have slowly and painfully defeated the suicide-bomber threat in Israel — and Muslim clerics and intellectuals will have to defeat the death cult in the mosque, the lecture room and on the Internet. However discreetly, both will need to take the "Islamic factor" and other realities into account.

FOR a long time to come, however, Britain (and other European countries) face a frightening prospect. Worse bombings with higher casualties will probably occur. And those who cannot endure this reality will take refuge in illusions and displacement activities — of which the easiest to hand is anti-Americanism. Even while the bodies were being disinterred from the London underground, some voices were heard blaming the United States, the Iraq war and George W. Bush for what had happened."