Foiled London Bombing
Iain Murray observes, regarding the foiled London car bomb:
James Forsyth of The Spectator has an important comment:
One of the great delusions of our time is that once Blair, in the UK case, and Bush, in the American one, stepped down from office the terrorist threat would disappear. The news that a car bomb attack was foiled in London last night illustrates just how wrong this belief was. Although, the fact that the vast bulk of planning for the 9/11 attacks was done during the Clinton presidency should have shown people how wrong-headed this idea was in the first place.
Even George Galloway might have difficulty pointing to this attempted outrage as down to Brown's close relationship with the USA. Probably won't stop them trying, though.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the recent knighting of Salman Rushdie as a possible motivation. Granted, the planning for this attack may have started before that, but what the Islamist reaction to the Rushdie case highlights is the fact that it's not about US/UK relations, nor about our policies in the Middle East. The only way to satisfy the Islamists' demands would be to surrender entirely to what they want. Because even if we pulled out of the Middle East entirely, and abandoned Israel completely, there would still be things that we do that would cause outrage among the Islamists, and they would still use that as an excuse for their desire to conquer us all.
Source: The Corner on National Review Online
UPDATE: Looks like I was right. According to ThisIsLondon (H/T Stanley Kurtz), a posting on a jihadist website that preceded the attacks used the knighting of Rushdie as one of the justifications for the attacks. No surprise, as any excuse is a good excuse for these murderers.