How should we react?

I was going to post something in disagreement with my favorite blogger, Billmon, and decided to let it go. I see Bob has done it for me, for the most part. Billmon suggests we shouldn't be immediately squawking about the possible agendas behind the London attacks as benefiting Bush and Blair, and perhaps implicating them, but should rather "give it a rest" while we first mourn the loss of innocent life in the tragedy. Bob disagrees, and gives good reason.

I'd just add that we can no longer afford to mourn except in our private personal time. The tragedy of terrorism and its true causes are, as Bob suggests, absolutely necessary to address right now - loud and constant.

The deaths, while tragic, are not "unnecessary" as people like to say about terrorist attacks. They no more or no less merit being mourned than any "untimely" or "unnecessary" deaths, such as those that occur at the hands of all stripes of murderers every second of every day in every part of the world. These particular deaths - deaths at the hands of terrorists - are, unfortunately, actually very necessary. They are trying to wake us the fuck up! Mourning them is not the proper response. Getting the truth and doing something to correct the situation is. The families of the dead can mourn them. The rest of us do not have the luxury of the time. A moment of silence is a moment wasted. A moment for the authors and perpetrators of terror to work on their next moves, which will certainly include covering their tracks and silencing the truth seekers and truth tellers, just as we've already seen in the retraction of the Israeli embassy warning information.

Previous posts on the London attacks.