More on Spanish elections
This one is from
Mark Steyn writing in the Telegraph:
bq.
The Spanish dishonoured their dead
"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, naturally they will like the strong horse." So said Osama bin Laden in his final video appearance two-and-a-half years ago. But even the late Osama might have been surprised to see the Spanish people, invited to choose between a strong horse and a weak horse, opt to make their general election an exercise in mass self-gelding.
bq. To be sure, there are all kinds of John Kerry-esque footnoted nuances to Sunday's stark numbers. One sympathises with those electors reported to be angry at the government's pathetic insistence, in the face of the emerging evidence, that Thursday's attack was the work of Eta, when it was obviously the jihad boys. One's sympathy, however, disappears with their decision to vote for a party committed to disengaging from the war against the jihadi. As Margaret Thatcher would have said: "This is no time to go wobbly, Manuel." But they did. And no one will remember the footnotes, the qualifications, the background - just the final score: terrorists toppled a European government.
And more - talking about Bin Laden's 1996 Declaration of War:
bq. In his 1996 "Declaration of War Against the Americans", Bin Laden cited Washington's feebleness in the face of the 1992 Aden hotel bombings and the Black Hawk Down business in Somalia in 1993: "You have been disgraced by Allah and you withdrew," he wrote. "The extent of your impotence and weaknesses became very clear." To the jihadis' way of thinking, on Thursday, the Spaniards were disgraced by Allah; on Sunday, they withdrew. The extent of their impotence and weaknesses is very clear.
He does not see a good future for Europe. We were attacked and fought back. They were attacked and rolled over as neatly as any trained dog. My only worry is that we will see something like the Madrid bombing prior to our own Presidential election -- something like that could saw enough uninformed voters minds to cause problems in the future. Time to buy some property out in the boonies and prepare for a SHTF scenario...
Posted by DaveH at March 15, 2004 8:18 PM