My Reaction to the London Bombings

I spent the afternoon of 7/7 building a new bookshelf for my overflow of books.  As I worked I listened attentavely to live reports on my local National Public Radio station, WOUB feed from the scene of the bombings that day in London.  My shock and my horror were were amplified.  Each report was a painful reminder of all I had felt on our own country's tragic day - 9/11.        I also remember wondering, "Was I wrong to think our response to the earlier attack in New York was extra-legal? Were these terrorists exactly as evil and terrible as George Bush had proclaimed they were and, had his administration's doctrine of preemption been justified by these new attacks in London?"

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