Raging Kraut

Not the time to be funny

Posted by Ray on 03/15/04 at 11:29 PM • News Commentary • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink

A victory for appeasement. A victory for cowardice. The Spanish people demonstrated today that they have no courage.

Originally I was going to be flippant. I was going to paraphrase Basil Fawlty with the "amazing they ever got an armada together" line, but then thought better of it.

I have no damn idea what they're going through.

I have no right to judge their pain. Remote-viewing via CNN does not give me a share in the tragedy, just like it didn't on 9/11. I watched the towers fall live, but I wasn't in New York, I didn't breathe the dust or hear the rumbles...Bali, Madrid - these are still places on TV to me.

Let's be honest. Spain electing socialists was not good for anyone, especially them. Apeasement historically has never been an effective policy choice. Show fear in front of a rabid dog and you get mauled. Badly.

In response to being targeted, the Spaniards have chosen to put down the sword and leave the battle. Terrorists have now been able to mess with an election in a Western democracy successfully. The ballot-box has now been superceded by terrorist bombers.

Many recognize the dangers of this. It's not like these terrorist fucks need encouraging.

The scary question is who's next. 2004 is a big election year isn't it?

Raging Kraut

Some polls had the Spanish populace at 90% against being in Iraq. Going to Iraq had nothing to do with the War on Terrorism (unlike going to Afghanistan), and had everything to do with sucking up to the US. So what happens, they get noticed by Al Qaida, and get hit because they are Bush's ally and they kicked the Moors out of their country 500 years ago.
So now their new leader says, either the occupation of Iraq falls under a UN Mandate or we're out of here, in an attempt to make the invasion a bit more pallatable to their populace (and knowing full well that the US will never give up control to the UN).

Will this mean that Al Qaida will try this again elsewhere? Probably. Would they try it in Canada? Probably not, because the Conservative are more likely to follow the US's lead than the Liberals.

Posted by on 03/16 at 07:49 PM

They were against the war but not against the incumbent government, which the polls indicated would win.

Then al-Qaeda attacks, and the gov't bungles their handling of it by pointing at ETA. All of a sudden the incumbents are turfed. And the U.S. loses an ally.

Pretty good results for a small investment.

Posted by Ray on 03/16 at 10:20 PM

Attack Canada? Not to initiate a regime change. The Liberals are far too friendly a government.

But, if they ever needed an easy target we'd be on the list. An attack close to American soil would be a little reminder to them, and we are in Afghanistan...

Posted by Ray on 03/16 at 10:29 PM

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