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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (5600)	3/15/2004 4:43:51 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Re: Oh, BTW, here's the best thing I've seen so far to explain the complex political landscape in Spain today: LOL! Are you still sure it best described Spain's political dynamics? I guess the article's title, together with the first paragraph, sum it up --and screw it up at the same time: Thursday's bombing atrocities in Madrid will inevitably dominate the March 14 general elections in Spain. The outrage they have provoked is expected to benefit the right-wing Popular Party of the outgoing prime minister, José María Aznar, and its candidate to succeed him, Mariano Rajoy. ___________________ BTW, it's been a long time now since I've myself stopped bothering what wsws has to say/spin about anything.... Yet, that article is instructive in that it reveals the perception gap between Americans and Spaniards --and, more broadly, Europeans. Americans must be dumbfounded indeed: they expected Spaniards to react like Americans after 911 --LOL! You Americans thought of the Spanish people as the mirror image of the American people, that is, a fanatical herd of trigger-happy chauvinists who would just rally behind their "Commander-in-Chief" and send another contingent of Spanish soldiers into Iraq... How wrong you were! Wake up, guys! This is Spain! Europe! I mean, NEW Europe! With CIVILIZED constituencies!! We don't have a Cracker Belt over here! We don't have televangelist quacks to whip up hatred against "ugly Arabs"... get the picture? That's why I foresaw that the attempt to instil Judeofascism in Europe would be a whole 'nother ball game. Public opinion doesn't pan out as in the US --or as in Russia, for that matter... People in New Europe, however xenophobic they are, don't expect their leaders to act as boorish thugs, boasting to "smoke 'em out!", "dead or alive", or, like Putin, "to hunt them down in the toilets!" () Gus () news.bbc.co.uk