March 15, 2004

Election in Spain

James Lileks has a wonderful comment on the recent election in Spain, the win of the Socialists and the terrorist bombing in Madrid on the 11th. bq. I’m writing about Spain tonight for the Newhouse column, so I won’t discuss it here, except to repeat what I wrote in the LGF comment section: you can take the nation out of old Europe, but you can’t take the old Europe out of the nation. bq. Vote against the party that maddened the terrorists, so the terrorists will leave you alone for a while – brilliant. It’s like sitting on a cooler of raw meat with tigers prowling around, and deciding to put down your rifle so you can throw some steaks at the tigers. If you throw hard enough, they won’t come back. James' column at Newhouse is not up yet - the author page with links to columns can be found here. Posted by DaveH at March 15, 2004 9:04 AM