"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German born physicist
Charlie Eklund at The Other Other Shoe has written two excellent posts. The first, titled "Interesting Times," discusses the recent terrorist attack in Spain and links to an essay by Canadian journalist, David Warren. The second, "Steven Den Beste on Europe's Prospects for Peace," is about what we might expect in the aftermath of the attack now that Aznar's pro-U.S. Popular Party has been ousted by Spanish voters. It links to a post on Den Beste's weblog, USS Clueless.
Does what has happened in Spain mean that Al-Qaeda has a tactic that will result in the loss of our allies in the war on terrorism? If similar attacks occur in other countries that have provided troops in Iraq, will they fold? And what about us? If we're attacked on the eve of our elections in November, how would we respond to the bloodshed?
I don't know the answers to my questions. I don't believe anyone else does either. I do believe that attacks on U.S. citizens would elicit a much different response than occurred in Spain, such aggression angering us so much that we'd allow Bush to retaliate in any way he felt appropriate.
I don't believe you can sit down over a cup of coffee with these madmen and settle this. They want us dead. They've made that quite clear. So who will it be? Us or them?
1 comment:
I agree with you - there is no easy solution to this. Unfortunately, a lot of innocent people are going to die. Perhaps the effort of stopping their madness will lay in the US and the rest of the world targeting Iraq and any other eastern country that allows terrorists to live within their borders. If it has to be us or them (and I believe it does) then I'm for us!
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