A Victory for Terrorism


A Victory for Terrorism and A Sad Day for Spain

Spain's Socialist win a victory. The Spanish people who have shown that they are a peaceful people have taken a short sighted view of the world we live in. While I sympathize with their pain after this awful week. I know that history has shown us that giving in to violence always leads to more. Maybe terrorist will not attack Spain again this year because they pull their troops out of Iraq. Even if that is true then some other democracy will have to suffer a similar fate. Just before another election in Poland or Italy there will be another attack where babies will be blown apart and innocent people, who only want to live out their lives in peace, will die. The Terrorist have seen that they can get what they want by these bloody tactics. I'm not aying that the previous Spanish Government was right. As a matter of fact since they seemed to want to cover up the truth of the bombing they most likely brought this on themselves. In this case it just won't matter. The fact that the bombing happened and the Spanish Government fell means that these tactics will be used again.

For the US the only question that I see is will they attack us just before the election hoping to sway us away from a hawk or will they hope that the dove will gain office so they can attack him and make him quit? Will we have what it takes to stay the course? This is going to be a hard time to be part of a Democracy.

This is hard for me, a life time Democrat, to say but it may be best for our country to send a message to the Terrorist and re-elect Bush. I don't say this because I Love President Bush. I don't say it because he is doing a great job. I say it because if we back down now, if we pull back from our fight with the Terrorist, it might very well lead to a time far worse than WII. The number of innocent women and children that will die horrible deaths will be to great to contemplate.

If we pull back now and rogue Governments are allowed to protect Terrorist again then those who have brought this evil upon the Democracy's of the world will continue to try again and again. All forms of terror will be used to create chaos in the world. That is because that is what these fanatic desire. Remember the awful conditions of Afghan under the Taliban. These are the conditions that the fanatics want for the whole world. This is the only way they can stay in power.

So I ask again. Will we be strong when it is our turn? Will we turn back? This has been a sad time for Spain and for Democracy. I weep for their loss and pray for our strength.

Posted: Mon - March 15, 2004 at 12:17 AM      

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