Canada And Other Matters Of Opinion (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
In the post-9/11 world, there has been Bali. There has been Madrid. And, two days ago, there was London. As I write, the death count is around fifty, the number of injured approaches a thousand. Responsibility for the slaughter and mayhem has not been definitely assigned, but most serious analysis converges on al-Qaeda or one of its European tentacles. The London attack surely bears all the vile stigmata of al-Qaeda’s previous slaughters: pre-planning and co-ordination, a series of explosions within a short time at highly vulnerable sites (the London subway and transport system during morning rush hour) and, above all, great moral carelessness over the “targets.” Al-Qaeda demonstrated in New York on that September morning nearly four years ago that it likes to harvest as many as possible in its murderous schemes. It was but happenstance that the towers were not full, and that a “mere” 2,749 were erased from the book of life, rather than fifty thousand. Fifty thousand dead wouldn’t have stirred a feather on the conscience of Osama bin Laden and his fanatics, presuming that conscience is a faculty or a concept either he or his followers acknowledge or possess.
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