The following email arrived in response to my 7 July 2005 blog entry, London and the Long War, which was reprinted in American Daily. After responding to it, I thought I should post his letter here, along with my reply.

Have just read your article and would like to thank you for your support and kind words. I cannot also begin to tell you how much George Galloway is hated here in the UK (by anybody with a sense of decency), but sadly people like him are all too prevalent in this land. That this creature Galloway could not even wait a decent time (if there is such a thing) to try to make political capital out of the blood of innocent victims and families makes it even more despicable. He did it on the day, when people are dead or dying, when families don`t still know whether their loved ones are coming home that evening!!! How low can he go??

Sadly I also blame our government for a weak, ineffective immigration policy that has allowed the country to become awash with so-called "asylum seekers" and free-loaders. And a human rights policy that means "we" do nothing but give succour to suspected terrorists and murderers. If you speak out here about this, you are a racist. Well, look at what happens when you have such policies Mr Blair. It`s why when I see him bleating on TV, I want to shout at him and tell him and his bleeding-heart government to wake up to the real world.

I am a Londoner, born and bred, work there and so shared in all the grief, anger and courage that was displayed in our city on Thursday. One of my work colleagues was on one of the tube trains that was bombed. He took shrapnel wounds, but is, thankfully, alive. But he has only just started his working life. Poor kid. But trust me we will not be cowed from going about our business as usual, and will never let these bastards win. Because the moment that I or any of my countrymen refuse to leave our homes to travel to our daily business, then this scum HAVE won.

Thank you for your support, and for the support of your countrymen and women. It is truly comforting to know who our true friends are. But we have always known that.

Thanks for writing; I know it's a difficult time for all of you. Oddly enough, the terrorists followed the Nazi playbook exactly, and seem to have achieved the same result. Bombing Guernica resulted in Spanish capitulation (to Franco), but bombing London, hoping for a similar loss of nerve, resulted in resolute opposition. The barbaric scum of the Earth never learn... lucky for us.
 
I see what's happening in Great Britain as a close analogue of what happened here in America after 9/11 -- most will band together while some use the tragedy for personal or political gain. What George Galloway said was utterly disgusting, and his timing inhumanly cruel. We have more than our share of that sort here, and all their poison came out during the recent election season, even to using the number of our dead soldiers to demand we run away and hide. Galloway isn't too far from our John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and so on ad nauseum.
 
After nearly four years, some people seem to have forgotten what happened, but most Americans have the right attitude about this war: a steely determination to see it through. President Bush truly speaks for us in this regard. For some of us, it's easy to remember -- every time I go to NYC, I see that broken skyline and get angry as hell all over again. Debra Burlingame, sister to one of the 9/11 pilots, said it best. She said she was once asked whether she missed the easy solidarity of the days following 9/11. "No," she said, "I miss the anger." There's nothing wrong with being angry over these horrible atrocities the terrorists are visiting upon the innocent, and don't let any crystal-wearing, tree-hugging, dope-smoking New Age "citizen of the world" wanna-be hippie tell you differently.
 
President Bush's open border policies concern us greatly, as Mr. Blair's concern you. In addition to the illegal immigrants that are a drain on our economy, we know that terrorists are coming in from Mexico. They're all just walking through holes in the fence, but neither Republicans nor Democrats are inclined to do anything about it. But at least Bush and Blair are aggressively pursuing the leaders of these murderous scum in their hidey-holes, and pushing a policy of democritisation and freedom in the Middle East to take care of the frustration and hopelessness that give rise to terrorism. It's our best shot, I think, in the long term.
 
They can't win, as long as we refuse to let them. It's going to be hard and tough, and they will murder as many innocents as they can in an effort to  frighten and dishearten us. But in the end, they will lose.