Everyone in involved in the British bombing plots seemed to have the same employer:

Eight people arrested in connection with failed car bombings in Glasgow and London all have links with the National Health Service, the BBC has learned.

Mark Steyn and Stanley Kurtz have thoughts on the implications.

[Early afternoon update]

Iain Murray makes another relevant point about the NHS:

The high proportion of foreign physicians is indeed down to a lack of British Doctors - not just from lack of students, but also because many trained Doctors choose to pursue other careers. Life in the NHS is not a rewarding experience. A family member of mine who is so highly regarded as a Doctor that she has won a prize carrying a substantial annual stipend for the rest of her life has withdrawn from clinical treatment because she was constantly asked to make life-or-death decisions based on the rationing of resources (you won't hear that story in Sicko). The socialization of medicine in the UK is responsible for a lot of problems. The importation of terrorists is just one of them.

[Update at 2 PM EDT]

Dr. Sanity has some thoughts on doctors as terrorists.

[Evening update]

More thoughts on Doctors Evil, from Michael Ledeen:

I think it has something to do with what Mel Brooks once referred to as "that total indifference to pain and suffering" that is necessary to be a good doctor. You have to be "clinical" about all that, because you can't afford to have your judgment swayed by real sympathy with the sufferer.

I had an an issue that I had to go to the emergency room for when I was visiting a friend in Wales a few years ago. There were no Anglo doctors around. Now this was early in the morning but it was still interesting.

"The socialization of medicine in the UK is responsible for a lot of problems. The importation of terrorists is just one of them."

One of the 7/7 bombers was a school teacher. Another worked in a fish-and-chip shop. Are schools and fish shops responsible for importing terrorists as well?

Whats next? Our SOCIALIZED fire and police departments having to hunt down one of their own???
Give me a break!

Wasn't the semi-mythical Che Guevera either a doctor, or a medical student in early life? Also Guzman, the guy who ran Shining Path for so many years.

If I'm wrong, please correct me.

Wasn't the semi-mythical Che Guevera either a doctor, or a medical student in early life? Also Guzman, the guy who ran Shining Path for so many years.

Yes. There was a discussion on The Corner of the seemingly large number of Doctors Evil.

I think the problem is triage rules - making life and death decisions makes you wonder why you shouldn't make those decisions in other areas.

Triage rules applied to politics currently require the eradication of all life in the middle east.

Given:
1. They want to kill anyone that is not identical to themsleves.
2. As technology progresses, the number of people that can be killed before any possible response goes up.

Therefore:
1. If they continue on their current path, they will kill everyone.
2. We cannot get them to change.

So it is us vs them, doctor chooses them. Maximize the lives saved by killing 100 million living now to save 1 billion later.

The same problem that great philosopher Will Smith noted about robots - sometimes the cold, rational decision is wrong. Especial cold, rational decisions made by emotional beings...

D, Where are you planning to kill these 100 million?