Good op-ed piece by Patrick Bishop in Friday morning’s Daily Telegraph.

There is no good news in this sorry subject. We are stuck with this horrid

business for years, perhaps decades. The only people who have even come

close to a solution are the Brits. Their 30-year war with Irish terrorism

ended, or at least quiesced, when the British government surrendered,

issuing pardons to convicted terrorist prisoners, giving key executive

positions to the terrorist generals, and ceding large parts of major cities

to terrorist control, as described in another Telegraph piece here

It is not likely, however, that this can be made to work on the

international scale. There’s just too much world. In any case, groups like

Al Qaeda don’t want this thing or that thing, they want EVERYTHING. Get

used to a lot more intrusive security, weary citizenries calling for

concessions to the terrorists, and occasional horrors like the Madrid

bombings. For ever.