The American Spectator

p> SHOW OF STRENGTH br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s Sunday in London : /p> p>I think it is hard to convey the feelings on the Mall and in front of Buckingham Palace during Sunday’s 60th anniversary celebrations of the end of WW2. Mr. Tyrrell however did a very good job. I took my two children to the event — parade and then the walk down the Mall to the front of the palace. It was a sunny day and the pomp and circumstance of victory was in the air. It was the right tonic after the moral midgets actions on Thursday. My son who is 12 got to stand next to and take pictures with many vets — chests full of medals. His great-grandfather died in November of ‘44 during one of the many Spearhead offensives mounted by General Maurice Rose’s US 3rd Armored Division. It was good for him to see the men who fought alongside his grand-dad as part of the war against fascism and its assault on all that is good in the Western world. There was a sense of pride and unity as we recited the prayers, cheered the Queen and veterans, and watched as flying examples of British and American righteousness flew over us. As an American in London you realize that the U.S. and the UK are really the last bulwarks willing to protect the West from the evil and chaos that those who hide in the shadows wish to bring us. br> — Ron Pettengill br> London, UK /p>

Last summer, on the first Sunday in July, my wife and I checked in at the Thistle Marble Arch and wandered over to Speakers Corner. The usual gathering of lunatics on soapboxes was there but the one that stood out was a stunningly handsome middle-aged man of Arab extraction who said to the large wildly approving (nearly all-Muslim) crowd, in lightly accented English:

“I give thanks to Allah every day that I live in a world and at a time that I get to see Americans beheaded on TV.”

I asked a London cop about it — he shrugged and said the man was a regular, as was the crowd, and that nothing could or would be done.

p>Why was I not surprised last Thursday?