Boston today was relatively still despite a normal work day and despite the sirens that would ring through downtown seemingly every fifteen minutes. And even the cool, overcast summer weather reminded me of times I visited Britain. Empathy is not the same thing as the experience of seeing your city attacked, but like so many others I wish Londoners and Britain as a whole well in pulling through this.
It’s natural that we’ll see an event, even an atrocity, through the prisms of our priorities and experiences. (Le Monde has an analysis piece foregrounding national identity and the Olympics, the American papers foreground 9/11). It’s natural that the close ties we have with the UK means that as a whole this event affects us more profoundly than the Madrid bombing did. And it’s natural that we’ll have to weigh the politics of reponses to terror and the practicalities of keeping secure, though that can wait a little.
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