Remember when Spain elected the easy on terrorism guy?

[Courage the Cowardly Dog]

Yeah last election they elected the guy who would not go to war or participate in any war on terror things in Afgahnistan or anywhere. This was done by landslide election which earlier favored his opponent AFTER a a huge subway bombing and it was seen as a concession that Spain would stay out of Extremist affairs and the extremists would leave Spain alone.

IT DIDN'T WORK.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/30/madrid.blast/index.html

dumbasses.

[derrida]

The contiunued occupation of the Basque homeland isn't exactly "staying out of extremist affairs," is it?

[ItalianStereotype]

to call it a "continued occupation" or an "extremist affair" is a bit ridiculous considering that there hasn't been an independant Navarra for about, oh, 500 years? 600 years?

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Uh oh, get ready for parallels....

[Sethomas]

So we can blame Al Qaeda when the Inuits bomb Fairbanks, I guess.

[El Blanco]

Ya, the Spanish and French forcefull occupation is akin to the British forcefull occupation of Devon.

Although, this does make for an interesting question to start a topic. I'll start it when I can get some more info and phrase it properly.