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Originally Posted by zen_tom
I think London and the people of London should be proud of their calm, steadfast and pragmatic response to real crisis, and for getting things working again so quickly after a coordinated attempt to disrupt.
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It's nice to talk about how quickly they responded, perhaps as a comparison to how NYC responded to the terrorist attack on 9/11, but there are two important things to note: 50 tops people dead in london vs several thousand in NYC... three trains and a bus vs 4 planes, two 100-story skyscrapers... I think it's more than fair to say the scale isn't quite the same at all.
...but the biggest note I'd make is just that England is just
really used to terrorist attacks, and has been around for a VERY long time. London itself has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. The people have great determination and character because it's been forged over time, because they've had to.