Are we used to it?

Maybe we just can't be shocked, and therefore, can't be moved to act against the Islamists? That We're Not Afraid site that everyone is linking to is charming, but it gives me an uneasy feeling to see people just shrugging this off. As Mark Steyn put it, "It's hard not to be moved by the sight of Londoners calmly going about their business as usual in the face of terrorism. But, if the governing class goes about business as usual, that's not a stiff upper lip but a death wish".

I've been wondering about this since Thursday, but I should have just turned to Victor David Hanson, who lays it all out:

Bin Laden has so far only made one mistake: He took down the entire World Trade Center rather than the top floors, and had the misfortune of having George Bush as president. Thus he lost Afghanistan and ended up with democratic reform from Iraq and Lebanon to the Gulf and Egypt. Train bombings in Madrid and bus explosions in London, like the carnage in Iraq, are preferable, since they are enough to terrify and demoralize the Westerner but not quite enough to knock sense into him that only military resistance and victory will save his civilization.

The violence is part of a plan, and the only person not going along with the program is Bush. That's why I continue to like him, even though he's not perfect. (via Peaktalk)