A Terrible Shift

One of the security pundits I saw discussing the London bombings on TV yesterday made an interesting point about this latest attack - it's the first major attack in a western country directed at the prolitariate. Usually, it's the government or the establishment that is targeted in the west - the Pentagon and World Trade Center or consolates, etc. But this one was only aimed at regular Joes going to their jobs. In Arab countries, this kind of attack is more common - usually aimed at regular Joes (albeit Jewish Joes). But this represents a shift, or at least a new strain, of terrorism.Scary.