SOME OTHER NOTABLE REACTIONS:
From The Guardian: "We Are All Spanish." Damn straight:
"I get a text early in the morning from Madrid from a young socialist woman who worked for me as a parliamentary assistant. It recounts the early news of horror. She signs off with "many kisses of democracy", and I know the great heart of the Spanish people, with the help of all their friends in Britain and Europe, will not be cowed by this assault. Democracy will win and the new totalitarianism of terrorism will not pass."
Roger Simon:
"Despite their extreme animus toward Bush—an odd position since he favors free trade and Kerry, increasingly, does not—they seem inexorably to be moving towards the President’s position. Western Europe, after all, is far more vulnerable to terrorism than we are—and not just from the Basques, obviously. Anecdotal information I have received in email, plus superficial attempts like new laws against religious adornments in school, support the view that Europe is beginning to take its collective head out of the sand and face the situation. If an event similar to today’s takes place outside Spain, everything may alter. Sadly, however, Europe has a history of far more draconian solutions to such problems than the USA where our biggest blemish is Manzanar. Let us hope for the best."
Jeff Jarvis:
"They want a crusade, let's give 'em a crusade."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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