Monday, March 15, 2004
So, it's a changing of the guard in Spain. It's being read as a reaction to the bombs and the outgoing administration turning away from Europe to embrace the Bush doctrine of 'kill people and label their corpses a threat'. The new administration has denounced the War Against Terror and talked about a troop pull-out. This will be worrying for Tony Blair and any other of Donald Rumsfeld's 'New Europeans' as they consider their majorities, although in Blair's case it's probably going to have an effect on turnout rather than a swing of opinion away from him, the Tories supported the war and inspire little confidence except among their usual fanatics.
But a read of the BBC's Talking Point is instructive and good for a laugh. So many people assume that the bombs were Al Qaeda's party political broadcast, or that voting in Socialists is capitulation and cowardice (as several Americans allege). If you try to walk through a patio door only to bang your head, you know enough to pull the door open before you try again. These idiots seem to believe the mass bombings of innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq, that did so much good in stopping terror attacks like those in Iraq last week and on a daily basis and these attacks in Madrid, are the right way to continue. They are willing to keep walking into the plate glass on the grounds that eventually they'll break through. This DEMOCRATIC vote by the people of Spain is pointing out that if you want to reach your objective, brute force and ignorance is not the only, and not even the best, way.
But a read of the BBC's Talking Point is instructive and good for a laugh. So many people assume that the bombs were Al Qaeda's party political broadcast, or that voting in Socialists is capitulation and cowardice (as several Americans allege). If you try to walk through a patio door only to bang your head, you know enough to pull the door open before you try again. These idiots seem to believe the mass bombings of innocent people in Afghanistan and Iraq, that did so much good in stopping terror attacks like those in Iraq last week and on a daily basis and these attacks in Madrid, are the right way to continue. They are willing to keep walking into the plate glass on the grounds that eventually they'll break through. This DEMOCRATIC vote by the people of Spain is pointing out that if you want to reach your objective, brute force and ignorance is not the only, and not even the best, way.
