My heart goes out to the people of London right now, but..

[johnnie]

This is a political site. What happened today in London is tragic and sickening, but terrorism is part of politics. There are people here who have opinions on what the possible explanations could be on these attacks and they are voicing their opinions.
If you go back and read the archives from DU on 9-11 you will see that many people were expressing their political views concerning those attacks. I'm pretty certain that the majority here at DU are not trivializing today's attacks, but they also need to express their emotions and how they believe they tie into the politics of the day.
As some have posted on here already, this is going on over in Iraq every single day and the attacks hardly get mentioned at all. There are men and women from the "coalition" dying every day in Iraq and Afghanistan, but those reports have also seemed to be swept aside.
As I stated, today's attacks are a horrible tragedy and should not be looked at as "just part of life", but DU cannot stop being what it is because of those attacks. There might be some opinions that you will not agree with, or you might think are too bizarre, but that is what goes on here. It is not being disrespectful or rude to our fellow members from London, it is just what Democratic Underground is about... politics and a place to share our views with each other.