“200 years ago an outrage like the sacking of the Libyan consulate would have drawn a puntative raid and some Libyan port city would have been leveled.”
So if the London muslims attack the US embassy at the Chancery Building, in Grosvenor Square, the response of President Tallguy would be to bomb the English Port of Southampton?
Brilliant!
I think, Dave, that Britain still has a functioning police force and a legal system (things that are the exception in Islamist states) that we can trust to nail the perpetrators while the FBI looks at the international angle. But thanks for the pithy reply anyway.