Why have the attacks in London, suddenly become about New York?! — Page 2

CM2 - Philly continues to wander around blissfully ignorant of any possibility of an attack - when you're sandwiched between NYC and DC, that tends to happen...

Our local conservative radio guy was trying to find an angle that somehow Live8 was the catalyst for all this, and that Bob Geldof was somehow responsible for rousing the terrorists...

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"I wated to scream at them and say "No, you were the F*CK not! Did you walk through putrid smoke and raining soot? Did you run? Did you smell burning flesh for weeks after? No you were NOT New Yorkers that day. WE were!"


Not only New Yorkers died that day. This comment was totally uncalled for. Anyone on this board could have had a family member or friend or co-worker die that day. What a nasty thing to say.

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Updated On: 7/7/05 at 02:15 PM

correct, madame. i was trying to make the connection, though, between london and news broadcasts drawing parallels to new york.

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"Our local conservative radio guy was trying to find an angle that somehow Live8 was the catalyst for all this, and that Bob Geldof was somehow responsible for rousing the terrorists... "

Why? Because they couldn't get tickets on eBay?

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TD - no, it was more like "see what happens when you make a big deal about the G8 - you wake the terrorists up and they get all sorts of ideas" - maybe that would be cause for discussion at some point, but I thought it was in poor taste (subject matter and timing-wise)

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I thought the general consensus was that this was a well orchestrated, long planned out sort of thing...it's pretty lame to try to pin this (even partially) on an event that was intended to bring some sliver of justice to the world.

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"People's relatives/husbands/friends are dying in Iraq now b/c of that day."

Not that Iraq had any connection to "that day" or anything like that that would make that sentence logical.

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It's all grist for the info-tainment mill. Watching the self-important, loudmouth, and loathsome blowhards on Fox News like Sheppard Smith is enough to make one PUKE.


Natasha Rostova
St. Petersburg, Russia

if you think you are all going batty now, wait until the likes of madonna, angelina and gwynneth weigh in on the london bombings and what it means to them.

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And in defense of PalJoey...I think I know what he means. A lot of people who lived AWAY from New York or Washington DC *did* lose friends of relatives. But an awful lot of others, who were affected more abstractly, took ownership of the tragedy, too. And I think everyone *meant* well. But in reality, there *is* a difference when something that catastrophic happens on your home turf. Hundreds of people from a single home town died on the same morning and were gone "just like that"; there's a huge blank space on a horizon that is permanently altered and is a constant reminder of what happened every blessed day. The experience of the terror of that day is different in nature when it happened in "real time" and not just as an image on the TV screen. Attacks in other places like Madrid and London can easily rip off the scab and reopen wounds for people who experienced the attacks live back in 2001.

I think that comments like "we are all New Yorkers" are meant to be comforting and show solidarity, but they often just feel patronizing to people who experience 9/11 in one of the hot spots.

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and to add to your thoughts, if I may, Iflit--the attacks could have happened in other cities/states and not just DC and NYC (and consequently PA).

But, that morning, our entire nation was in a panic. I was living in Houston--the ONLY city in the country that has everything on an attack checklist (this was true during the Cold War, too). No one knew if the madness had stopped or not. We were all on alert as I would imagine all of Great Britain was and is today. And it does make sense that every major city in the world should feel some worry--what if they try to attack more than one city in different countries? What about if and when we are attacked again--today showed us that it CAN happen?

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Well, you can blame Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff who listed every single thing that is being done to beef up security at this time. Given that he did this at a press conference, and not in response to a question, you might want to not blame the messenger.

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oh, of course, sweetie--I agree completely! :)

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