Bloggledygook: How The West Was Lost.

Let me ask this question: Say you're in restaurant having lunch with a friend. The conversation veers to your companion telling you that he would like to murder you and many more of your countrymen but can't right now because he has a tacit agreement with the government to murder outside the country. But as soon as he gets the word, he's getting in line for the Martyrdom Express. Do you go on eating, or do you get up and call the Feds? Turns out if you're some twit from the New Statesmen named Jamie Campbell, you enjoy your korma. Mary Madigan from Dean's World posts this doozie:

It is a wonderful, typically British scene. I am sitting in a Manchester curry house, wondering whether to choose the Madras or the korma. The place is humming with Arabic, and a number of extended families have gathered to eat at adjacent tables. A few children skip past. My lunchtime companion is, at 24, three years younger than me. His name is Hassan Butt, and he'd like to martyr himself in Britain for the sake of Islam. I order the korma..
Hassan suggests that there are Islamists who are prepared to break their covenant with the British. And he warns that "any attack will have to be massive. After one operation everything will close down on us in Britain".

The British must wait to see, therefore, whether the deliverer of the massive attack will be Hassan himself. I, for one, will not be holding my breath. Apart from anything else, I enjoy our lunches.

Oh, how charming. In the wake of the attacks on London, I wonder if Mr. Campbell is still having lunch with his good friend Hassan.

That's troubling enough, but worst is the contention, in the linked article and in another piece Madigan cites from Daniel Pipes, that the British government had a policy of tolerating terrorist planning among the citizenry so long as the actual attacks took place off British soil. The New Statesman calls this a "clever way to keep us safe."

We can only hope, I suppose, that Mr. Campbell is being subject right now to at least a very thorough round of questioning. But somehow I doubt it.

Is it possible that British government policy on terrorists was essentially the same as that of Saudi Arabia's. This is exactly how the West will be lost.