Brits: Take Courage and Mind Your Head

[HagiaSophia]

Yet another British-ism asks to be remembered, perhaps even more necessary today in America. It is one of those typically quaint, and yet-so-pertinent, English expressions.

Found throughout the kingdom printed on neat, little signs wherever there are passageways with low ceilings, it is, simply, “Mind Your Head.”

Some members of the American Congress seem to have mislaid their senses of late. They are to be heard bleating about poor, misunderstood terrorists who’ve lost their way and ended up in durance vile. They take to the airways, whining about how it’s time for America to cut and run, tails between legs, out of Iraq after having liberated it and lit the fires of freedom across the Muslim world.

So Soon Forgotten?
Americans were thinking straight right after 9/11 when they followed the lead of their president in going after terror hammer and tongs. But that was 9/11/2001. And this is just barely post-7/7/2005.

Time to take a lesson from what happened in London on 7/7 – and to reflect upon what happened here on 9/11. It’s time, as football coaches admonish when the going gets tough, to suck it up and get back on offense.

Time to take courage again. Time to mind your head.

newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/8/164039.shtml

 

[judicame]

…]Winston Churchill could have told him, indeed as he told the whole world at the time England was in such mortal peril: “Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.”

And when the turn-tail French generals, eager to appease…]

I guess we’ll have to endure an even greater level of topsey-turvey Winston Churchill / WW2 myth making from the media whores and self appointed high-priests of ‘progress’ on this side of the pond in the coming weeks.

The thing that amazes me is that the American version of the phenomenen seems to throw a large amount of anti-French viciousness into the poisonous brew.

 

[DaveBj]

…and watch your six.

I was in Cairo when the U.S. embassies in Africa were bombed. You better believe I watched myself for the next few days when I rode the subway to work.

Funny thing–after Clinton made his misguided attempt at retaliation, people all of a sudden got real nice to me on the subway–offering me their seats, etc. Nevertheless, I was happy to see Egypt fall away under the wings of the Airbus on that trip.

DaveBj

DaveBj