Scotland Yard’s Presser on Sky Terror and other links

Hot Air has the video. Seems like all the little martyrdom tapes had been video’d.

But it’s all just fakery by Bush and Blair, you know.

So were these bombs in Germany.

Michael Barone looks at enemies foreign and domestic and ends brilliantly, thusly:
We have always had our covert enemies, but their numbers were few until the 1960s. But then the elite young men who declined to serve in the military during the Vietnam War set out to write a narrative in which they, rather than those who obeyed the call to duty, were the heroes. They have propagated their ideas through the universities, the schools and mainstream media to the point that they are the default assumptions of millions. Our covert enemies don’t want the Islamo-fascists to win. But in some corner of their hearts, they would like us to lose.

The cover enemies, btw, can also be called perpetual adolescents, if whom James Lileks writes, effectively, here:

It made me think (I was weeding today, doing lawnwork, and that lends itself to crank-think) of the perpetual adolescent strain in post-WW2 culture. Before the 50s, when there were actual problems like an interminable Depression and Nazis, adolescents were mostly unseen in the culture. You had kids, and you had grown-ups. Adolescents were young grownups, expected to adhere to the same general rules of behavior. It was an adult culture, and adolescents were the interns. The culture would tolerate some things like Bobby Soxers, but with wry eye-rolling amusement. After the war, though, the adolescent was not only the focus of the culture’s attention, he was taken seriously. He was an inarticulate oracle, a mumbling sage, a jeering jester with a switchblade. One of the dumbest lines in cinema is one of the most famous: asked what he’s rebelling against, Marlin Brando’s character in the “The Wild Ones” says “Whaddya got?” (H/T Jimmie Bise.)

Apparently “whaddya got” is now “support for fundamentalist Islamofascistic Hezbollah over Democratic Israel. That’s showing Daddy whose all grown up, now, innit? Read Lileks to the end. Then take in Glenn Reynold’s take on the state of political discourse in a youtube age.

Then read Hurricane Harry’s thoughts on negotiating with terrorists. I’d say their pretty spot-on, as our times have borne out.