In an addendum to my previous post about the UK Threat Level it’s good to see Home Secretary John Reid keep his tendency for hyperbole under check. Quoting from this BBC News report.
Home Secretary John Reid said the government was “confident” the ring leaders were in custody but it was not complacent.
He said had the plot been successful, it would have meant “loss of life on an unprecedented scale”.
I think the precedents of massive loss of life in our history are pretty fucking massive even if we only take a single incident rather than the wars or genocides of the last century the precedent of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing instantly about 80 000 people easily outweighs any possible loss of life if this latest terrorist plot had been successful.
