English Riots

From Yahoo News:
"Riots hit UK economy, from corner shops to tourism"

Stores smashed and looted by rampaging mobs, buildings in flames — the damage was to London and other English cities, but the images were beamed around the world.Four days of riots have already cost businesses and insurers hundreds of millions of dollars. The cost to Britain's reputation — and its lucrative tourist trade in the runup to the 2012 Olympic Games — may be incalculable. London's historic center, visited by millions of tourists a year, has been almost untouched by the riots which hit a handful of inner-city and suburban areas. That hasn't stopped images of flaming buildings and shattered shops under headlines like "London's burning" flashing around the globe.

^ This is just plain sad. London has survived: the Great Fire, the German Blitz, IRA attacks and attacks from Al-Qaida and now a bunch of stupid, bored people are destroying the city and other parts of the country. One of my British friends said that the rioters should be sent to Afghanistan because then they could see what it really feels like to be in a war zone. I will take that a step further and say that all the rioters should be sent to live in Third World countries so they can see firsthand just what they have versus what many people around the world have. There is no excuse for these attacks. I don't understand why the British police (especially in London) were not able to regain control after the first, second, third, etc days of the riots. As I said above the city has gone through a lot and the most recent in 2005 so you would expect the police force of a national capital to have the training and man-power to stop something like this right away. The Olympics are next year and if I was going I would worry that the British police are not prepared. They can't even control rioting teenagers so why should we believe they can stop terrorists or any other kind of violence? If these kinds of riots happened in the US I would expect our police to be able to control the situation quickly. ^

http://news.yahoo.com/riots-hit-uk-economy-corner-shops-tourism-164510953.html