Channel 5 poll on that offer

Channel 5 news ran a phone poll last night on whether Europe should accept Bin Laden’s offer of a truce or not. I went incandescent.

I had this reaction for two reasons.

Firstly because the guy is a terrorist and the only course of action that should be taken when a terrorist offers you a deal is to stick you fingers in your ears and say “La, la, la, la, la”. To do anything else is to legitimise terrorist tactics. “Hey, you do this for me and we will stop killing you on your trains and in your shopping centres”. You certainly don’t run public polls on the subject.

Secondly, I don’t recognise Europe as an entity that can accept or decline such an offer.