A Londoner's Response

...if fifth hand, via Drew, via the Straight Dope boards, via all over the web, via London:

"We took on the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, the French, William Wallace, the Black Plague, the Roundheads, the Great Fire, Napoleon, the Nazis, and the Blitz, and we're still here. You terrorists are bloody amateurs."

You're bloody well right.

(Interesting, though, that the speaker seems to self-identify as a Celt.)