Echoes of a September morning

I woke up this morning and when I turned on the TV, I saw the news that at least four bombs had exploded in the London Underground, and one on a double-decker bus. Last I heard, some Al-Qaida group had taken responsibility.
I don't know who did it and I don't care. These people are cowards, thugs, murderers, psychopaths. They hit a commuter train, full of ordinary people. Just as the train in Madrid was full of ordinary people, and the World Trade Center was full of ordinary people. These people were not soldiers. They did not carry arms in some jihad.
If it is honorable to die for one's cause, then let the dissenters do it as honorable men: let them take up arms and face the troops or police head-on. If they are killed en masse, one can say they knew the risks. To target the innocent, in hopes of forcing a decision in their favor, is the worst kind of cowardice. It was rank cowardice when the Twin Towers fell, when the IRA targeted phone booths and old folks' parades, and it still stinks and scalds of the same stench now.
The Brits are a tough, scrappy race of people, and we in the U.S. inherit much of their native stubbornness, their refusal to quit. My dad always said the Brits were like an old tomcat (a compliment of the highest order, incidentally). "When a dog gets whipped by another dog, he stays whipped. With an old tomcat, you have to whip him all over again every time you see him. He doesn't stay whipped." The Brits will not allow this to crush them. They've survived much worse on their little island in the past 1200 years or so. Some have said they pity those who take on the U.S. True, but I pity those who pit themselves against the British. That lion is going to come snarling out of its den, with Saint George urging it on.
Great Britain stood by the United States in our hour of need. They played our national anthem during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. Let us play "God Save the Queen" for them. Here's for England and Saint George! God bless England. God save the Queen.