Unlucky Sweden

The day after the 7/7 attacks, Robert Fisk wrote:

"To go on pretending that Britain's enemies want to destroy "what we hold dear" encourages racism; what we are confronting here is a specific, direct, centralized attack on London as a result of a "war on terror" that Blair has locked us into. Just before the U.S. presidential elections, bin Laden asked: "Why do we not attack Sweden?" Lucky Sweden. No Osama bin Laden there. And no Tony Blair."

But since then, and despite sensibly staying out of NATO, Sweden has embroiled herself in the war in Afghanistan. Look what has happened as a result.

The 9/11 bombers made it perfectly clear that their grievance was the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia, which were duly removed, in consequence of which there has been no further attack on American soil. The Bali bombers made it perfectly clear that their grievance was Australian policy in Afghanistan. The 7/7 bombers made it perfectly clear that their grievance was British policy in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Our dear friends, the Islamist terrorists against Russia and China, make it perfectly clear that their respective grievances are the Caucasus (especially Chechnya) and Xinjiang, with the latter cheerfully unconcerned at genocidal attacks against Hui Muslims by our other favourites, the would-be ethnic cleansers on an eye-watering scale in order to restore theocratic feudalism, accompanied by halved life expectancy, in Tibet.

And now, this.

Still, isn't this the same Sweden where they are laughably trying to fit up Julian Assange?