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| The Trains of Jihad Derail Spain |
| 2004-03-23 |
| Via Roger Simon: BIG SNIP!!!!!!! ...Obviously, if Saddam were still around, he would have been the first to punish the audacious government in Madrid. But the master of the Iraqi Baathists is no more, awaiting a tribunal for his war crimes. So who else wanted to punish the Spaniards for daring to send their soldiers to Mesopotamia to participate in Iraqi regime change? Let’s refine the question: Who feared regime change in Iraq, so much so that they would rather strike first and provoke a regime change in Madrid – possibly as a prelude to others in London and Washington? In crude words, who would go so far as wishing, let alone acting, for events that would bring down one of the partners of the Coalition-of-the-Willing? <SMALL>BIG SNIP!!! Therefore, the election results -- the defeat of Aznar’s party -- if anything, tells us the following: 1) The Spanish government entered a war that it understood by itself, but didn’t explain the legitimacy of that military intervention to its own public thoroughly enough. Until last Thursday, Prime Minister Aznar took a huge risk by heading toward the elections with a big hole in his public support for the war -- a hole to be exploited by his enemies and the enemies of the coalition he belongs to. 2) By not educating his constituency, the Aznar cabinet opened its flanks to the media-intellectual establishment for surprise attacks and mobilization. If I were Prime Minister of a country with allegedly 90% of its citizens demonstrating against the involvement in Iraq, I would leave everything aside and spend the rest of my mandate doing teach-ins on national TV and public squares. I won’t rely on the mercy of the Jihad lobbies, nor the busy schedule of al Qaeda in hopes that my weak political position wouldn’t be exploited. 3) Presumably, one of the reasons why the conservative cabinet of Spain didn’t engage in mass campaigns of information and communication about the root causes of Jihad terrorism was the bad advice it received from its own advisors. The tremendous amount of Wahabi-based business in Spain -- from the castles of Malaga and Marbella to downtown Madrid -- outweigh Spain’s strategic choices. Arab regimes’ networking, including those of Syria and others, overwhelmed the country’s national security considerations. Spain was indeed an ally of the US in the campaign against terrorism, but limited in some respects. Here is an example: BIG SNIP |
| Posted by:Anonymous2U |
| #3 "The Spanish government entered a war that it understood by itself, but didn’t explain the legitimacy of that military intervention to its own public thoroughly enough..." Blame Aznar all you want, but he cast only one vote. The Spanish sheeple cast the rest... |
| Posted by: Hyper 2004-3-23 10:13:50 AM |
| #2 4) Not good enough police and security measures. |
| Posted by: Bernardz 2004-3-23 8:16:59 AM |
| #1 interesting article. But a bit too late now. As they say, hindsight is 20/20. |
| Posted by: B 2004-3-23 6:37:00 AM |