Spain capitulates on terror
March 18, 2004 ~ 1:33 p.m.
Was the Iraq war really all about oil? Definitely. Read this, please. Man, I just love how the anti-war fruitcakes keep asserting that France was the good guy on Iraq. Yep. Uh-huh. Sure.
The Spanish have made a bad mistake. In their anger and anxiety over the Madrid terror attacks, they elected the Socialist Party leader Jose Zapatero as their new Prime Minister. Zapatero was virtually unknown before the bombings. The one thing the right-leaning People�s Party can take comfort in was that it wasn�t actually a blowout. The Socialists�who were disgraced by scandals and voted out in 1996�captured 42.6 percent of the vote to the PP�s 37.6 percent. Former prime minister Jose Aznar�s People�s Party had the edge before the bombing; despite a lack of domestic support for the war, Aznar�s successor, Mariano Rajoy, looked fit to keep the Spanish center-right in power.
However, a mostly young voter turnout turned the campaign upside-down and voted in a pro-Europe, anti-American Socialist who has backed Spain out of the war alliance.
And so, what message is Spain sending out, loud and clear? The terrorists have won. We give up.
Aznar was admittedly wrong to finger the Basque separatists ETA right away and whip his nation into an anti-ETA frenzy only for the train bombings to be revealed as the work of an Al-Qaeda splinter group. This was ultimately his downfall. Nevertheless, Zapatero�s hard line against the war effort is giving the terrorists the prize they sought. You fight terror with resistance, not by capitulating.
Al-Qaeda are not the IRA; they are not interested in dialogue and compromise. They don�t accept deals. Their aim is to kill, indiscriminately, anyone and everyone not towing the Islamofascist line.
Hopefully, Spain will have learned this by the time of their next election and vote the People�s Party back in. In the meantime, we�ve lost a friend and gained an enemy.
The good news from Iraq is that 70 percent of the more than 2,500 Iraqis polled said life was better since Maddas� ouster. Even more good news: 48 percent of Brits support the war effort (as opposed to 43).
I have never believed that the British were as anti-war as the press and the BBC made out. Because the anti-war movement are among the most raucous, rabble-rousing, noisiest people on the planet, they, like squeaky wheels, get all the grease. The pro-war crowd is silent, keeping the faith among themselves. They are not attention-getters. Vindication is all they require.
If the polls from Iraq are any indication, that vindication is looming all the bigger.
� M.E.M.
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