London Can Take It, Two Years On
Fifty-two people were murdered in London, the cradle of liberal democracy, by monsters blaspheming against their own faith. Precisely two weeks later, on July 21, 2005, virtually identical attacks were thwarted; a week ago, additional jihadist attacks in London and Glasgow failed to claim any innocent lives, more by chance than anything else. I not know when we will be free of these outrages, but I do know that we will prevail. Democracies always appear fragile and weak to tyrants, but when the guns fall silent it is always the democrats who stand on the ashes of the tyrants' dreams. London can take it. We all can take it.