Alarms
As reassuring as it may be to know that various municipalities are conducting exercises to keep emergency crews capable of dealing with large-scale terrorism (notably, my old home town; my new city has and will again be running drills, too), it’s frustrating to know that right now there’s nothing to be done to prevent an attack. Al Qaeda doesn’t care about Iraq, you know, any more than they cared about Afghanistan per se. They live in the twelfth century at best and want everyone else back there with them. They will continue their crimes against the modern world until the populations from which they have come are raised up 800 years. That’s not going to happen soon.