London's 9/11

All American prayers and support should go out to our fine friends in London who were victims of the latest well planned series of terrorist attacks. It will likely be blamed on Al Qaeda or a similar organization of Islamic terrorists. It appears to have been well planned to disrupt the G8 Summit, as well as an attempt to create a repeat of the Madrid bombings to slice off British support for the Iraq War. However, it is more likely only to bring the U.S. and Britain closer together to support even more military action in the MidEast.

But this latest cowardly terrorist attack does prove several important points:

1. The "War On Terrorism" is not succeeding. Iraq is constantly attacked by fresh foreign fighters who organize in a number of Islamic states, including Saudi Arabia, which the U.S. purchases much oil from, yet fails to crackdown on these terrorist cells. These fighters are also reorganizing in Pakistan to cause fresh and renewed warfare in that nation as well. In Iran, one organization has the goal of raising up one million terrorist fighters to attack in Iraq and also Israel, and the new President of Iran has been linked to a Vienna, Austria terrorist attack by one source already, and has full plans to push ahead with a nuclear Iran. And the London attacks of this morning are likely to have originated in MidEast Islamic states with highly organized terrorist cells, fundraising, and training. America and Britain so far have no military strategy or support from Saudi Arabia and other states to wipe out these terrorist cells.

2. The Islamic religious/political fanatics who support Al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations are religious "end timers" who believe that creating a final showdown between the Western Christian world and the Islamic world will bring a "golden age" to the Islamic world after defeat of the Christian world. This is similar to a renewed battle between Islam and the the Christian world such as the struggle between the 1300's Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe. By creating a conflict between Islam and Christianity, the hopes are to bring this "heaven on earth" to the Islamic world. This is a dangerous religious view held by Islamic extremists, but certainly not shared by most Islamic moderates.

3. The first World Trade Center attack was in 1993. The more serious 9/11 was in 2001. Because no major terrorist attack has yet happened in the U.S. is no sign that the "War On Terrorism" has succeeded or is succeeding. And with greatly renewed terrorist activity in Iraq by foreign fighter cells and in Afghanistan by terrorist cells from Pakistan, every indication is that any nation including the U.S. is still deeply at risk.

4. While airline security is good in America since 9/11, both the Madrid bombings and the London bombings prove that mass transit must be tightened up. Al Qaeda has found a weakness in Western security, and has twice struck mass transit. In New York and Washington, special security for mass transit must be immediately improved.

5. Rather than slice off British support for the Iraq War, like the Madrid bombings did for Spanish support, changing a government suportive of U.S. goals before a critical election, today's terrorist acts will likely only encourage more U.S. and British military action in the MidEast. This will create a cycle of more Islamic terrorism cells and terrorists, and more violence. This cycle feeds on itself.

This is the frustrating cycle of violence. America is not reaching fresh terrorist cells dotted all over the Islamic world. And the fanatic Islamic extremist view of a showdown between Islam and the Christian world to create a renewed Ottoman Empire vs. Christian world conflict is not a religious view held by most in Islam who are very peaceful. This is a military stalemate where neither the Western world or the Islamic extremist world can win at this point. This is what makes the "War On Terrorism" so deeply frustrating.

The people of London deserve the very best prayers of all today. These innocent civilians have no place being made into targets of foreign extremism.