What an asshole: Caleb Carr blames Live 8 for London bombings

"The trigger for the London bombings was far less the presence of British troops in Iraq, and far more the media circus that surrounded protestors outside the G-8 summit, as well as the utterances of musical and other celebrities during the Live 8 performances in support of an end to world hunger, many of whom allowed their declarations to bleed over from understandable economic and political sentiments into dangerously blatant statements of opposition to the Iraq war, the global war on terrorism, and the U.S. generally. As a branch of sociopaths, terrorist leaders possess their own deformed cravings for fame, which makes them particularly susceptible to the false realities projected by celebrities. And if al Qaeda or one of its cohorts indeed mistook the angry but deeply confused language recently bandied about Britain as final proof that that nation's will to fight terrorism had become mortally compromised, then we may well have our answer for why the London attack occurred when it did: The long-sought-after moment when a seemingly retreating Britain could be fully separated from the U.S. had finally arrived.
OF COURSE, this idiocy is in a newspaper which combines great business coverage with political coverage of such assholic proportions, it's bigger than the asshole of a hippopotamus interbred with a whale that's swallowed the moon. We're talking The Wall Street Journal. Odd how people who cover business so sensibly can take leave of their senses when they stray into politics.