Good Morning USA

United States Doesn't Raise Alert

Although the weekend car bombs in Britain have sent the British into full 'critical' alert, it seems that the the US are more complacent. Terrorist alerts have not risen in the US and everything seems to be as normal. I think there are two ways of looking at this a positive one and a negative one. I'll start with the negative one first. Hence the title 'Good Morning USA'. It is clear that there are Al-Qaida insurgents in the US just as there are in Britain. The fact that the terrorist are doing there dirty work in Britain does mean that they have forgotten the US. Not only that, the fact that the US are suffering plenty of terrorist attacks in Iraq does not mean that they can't suffer attacks that are far closer to home. If Al-Qaida is increasing it's actions it would make sense to budge the alert status in the US preemptively to prevent insurgents from preparing another attack. Terrorist actions are best handled by prevention. If a terrorist cell exists, it is only a matter of time before they decide to strike.

Wake Up!

It would seem that ignoring the world escalation of terrorism and keeping alerts at their current level is unhealthy complacency. Believing irrationally that for some unknown reason Al-Qaida will decide to exclude the US from it's terrorist agenda is probably not a good idea. Last time when I wrote about Britain's coping with terror, I expressed the hope that the modern world might wake up and realise that terror is something that can and must be fought. The US seem to be turning a deaf ear to this plea. That is why I have titled this paragraph 'Wake Up'. Only by a unified action of the modern world can we put a final stop to terror.