Where Were You Then and Where Are We Now? 

Waiting on the elevated London Underground platform for the subway to British Telecom's offices, I received a cell call asking if I'd heard about the World Trade Center? A platform attendant heard my Yankee accent, grabbed me, and pulled me into the stationmaster's office where, amidst a matrix of monochrome closed-circuit video monitors, sat a cheap, black & white TV, topped with a rabbit-ears antenna. It was tuned to Channel 3/ITV who were rebroadcasting the US signal from CNN. The staff & I watched in horror as the Towers crumbled. A compassionate people the Brits are, the employees' sympathy was ours to lose then. Through deft media manipulation, the Islamists managed to wrest it back for themselves, scapegoating Israel & America, lowering the guard of the British public for their own lessons in intimidation & dhimmification.

I hope the London Underground employees learned from their experience that day, as I have, in time to save themselves & their colleagues from the vulnerability that their Islamophilia dealt them last July and for potential future. Spainish self-dhimmizing may have a hudna on the Madrid Underground, but not their national and cultural underpinnings. Britian has struck a Faustian deal with Islamism at the welcome expense of British Jewry, its Prime Minister Tony Blair, and its alliance with Americans.

Where where you - and what have we learned from it?