The new deadly attacks in London have gripped the world’s news media for the past two days. The death toll is atrocious, the violence obscene, the random killing purposeless.

We saw Queen Elizabeth visit victims in the hospital, and Tony Blair vow that the terrorists will not destroy “our way of life”. London, which only three days ago celebrated the victorious city’s selection as the host of the 2012 Olympics, is now engaged in the gruesome and noxious task of forensic and criminal crime scene collection.

The people of Iraq, let us not forget, live in a country that is something like the tunnel under the Charing Cross Station. Sudden death, blood, body parts, explosions, darkness, smoke, the stench of corpses, twisted metal, shards of glass, burnt clothing….these are the offerings presented to the kingdom of Bagdad everyday.

Our democratic leaders only offer us year after year of war, as our public treasury is wasted in a fight that can only end in catastrophic annihiliation. Once, the mighty West imagined that we could civilize the darker corners of the world and uplift the savages to our higher standard. We laughed as the Berlin Wall fell, and then we turned on “Seinfeld” and tuned out the world. Now we watch from behind closed circuit cameras as the maniacal Muslim thieves of democracy, rationalism and intellect steal our precious constitutional freedoms bit by bit. The fuse that ignites the bomb in the bus will eventually incinerate the paper document which so proudly hails, “We the people….”