The man who wrote that LIVES there.
He, and many others are confident that they can get past this. Londoners are confident because they have gotten past much worse than even Iraq has seen. It's oddly difficult to find an exact number of deaths from the Blitz alone--I've seen an enormous range in various sources--but they were certainly in the tens of thousands.
The constitution in Iraq is on track. Despite massive attempts to start one, a major civil war has not broken out. And of course, you paid absolutely no attention to the subject of his comments.
I post bits of good news here now and then. Lord knows enough others post the bad news. Why does the good news upset you so much?