Really, really awful. Horror. I've been in Atocha station in Madrid.
I wonder if this was ETA or al Qaeda?
It doesn't sound like ETA.
I've also been to Basque country, in 1999. I have a lot of sympathy with Basque secessionist aspirations. Blowing people up negates a lot of that.
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Bush's activities also wouldn't have been necessary if his old man had finished the job properly back in '91. It isn't a purely British mess there.
Talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't
Bush Jr is wrong to ivade Iraq.
Bush Sr was wrong NOT to ivade Iraq.
You're either for peace or your not.
Clearly, you just want an excuse to bash the President and there are no principles whatsoever to your stance.
Strawman argument. Unless I misread, he never attacked Bush I's invasion of Iraq.
Just to clarify two issues about Britain and its withdrawal from empire:
1. British withdrawal from the Middle East in the 1920s was characterised by capricious border-drawing on maps. If anyone else knows anythng more about Britain's efforts in withdrawing from Greater Arabia (aside from the Balfour Declaration, establishing a Jewish state, which I think most people would agree was a good thing), I'd be interested to read it.
2. British withdrawal from Greater India was a tough task managed by the Viceroy, the brilliant and noble Lord Mountbatten, who tried his best with a miserable situation, and a recalcitrant Gandhi. The book "A Thouand Suns" has an interview with the lawyer who was responsible under Mountbatten's orders to draw up a border between India and Pakistan. He had to rely upon fault charts, weighted evidence, and misleading submissions from local officials.
I'm Australian, and its part of my national duty to pick on the Brits, but I'll only do it on the basis of facts, and not ridiculous point scoring argued from ignorance.
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just because terrorism continues doesn't mean the war against them is a failure.
I disagree, Rob. Partisan guerrilla tactics can be stopped, and this war so far has had only limited success. By your reckoning, though, doesn't this simply mean that "wars" on crime, drugs and terror aren't really wars?
