Business as usual

Mark Steyn, as I’ve said before, is clever and talented at running off long riffs about the madness of liberalism, but seems unable to form any coherent concepts of his own. But here, at the end of one of his typically meandering columns, is a distinction worth making:

This is the beginning of a long existential struggle. It’s hard not to be moved by the sight of Londoners calmly going about their business as usual in the face of terrorism. But, if the political class goes about business as usual, that’s not a stiff upper lip but a suicide cult.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 11, 2005 12:07 PM | Send