Today, we are all Spaniards with heartfelt grief for Spain for March 11, 2004.

Mar. 12, 2004 : Poli Sat.Com's Political Satire/ Commentary* Daily Update # 01·· ™©·2004·(Home)·
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Today, we are all Spaniards with heartfelt grief for Spain for March 11, 2004.·
Hoy, estamos todos Español con pesar de corazónes nuestras por España por Once de Marzo, 2004.·

Yesterday's barbaric slaughter of hundreds and maiming of more than a thousand Spaniards makes all civilized people feel heartfelt grief for the Spaniards and boundless outrage at the barbarity of the attack. Whether the terrorist group in Spain selected the Eleventh of March to symbolically match America's Eleventh of September remains to be determined, but regardless of the answer, all civilized countries must act and speak with one voice against such atrocities and maximize efforts to hunt-down the perpetrators and penalize their supporters.

We, as Americans, owe the same unflinching, morally clear and courageous support to Spain and to President Jose Aznar in particular, as Spain and Aznar have been providing us in our war against fanaticism. In the face of such slaughter, it almost seems trite to make such statement. What civilized person would not say the same thing? What's important, however, is the need to recognize our moral obligation to continue saying the same thing long after the shock and grief dissipate.

That is so for the same reasons for which we must continually remind ourselves about 9-11 rather than lapsing into the false sense of security we derived before 9-11 from treating matters such as the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the Embassy bombings in Africa, etc. as though they manifested "law enforcement" problems rather than a threat requiring a worldwide counter-terrorism military offensive against such fanaticism and governments that overtly support it or are helpless to resist it. That is not to cast moral blame on those (we, including myself) who before 9-11 viewed such fanaticism as "law enforcement" problems, but that is a basis for disparaging the judgment of anyone who after 9-11 still clings to such "law enforcement" theory (or comparable "international law enforcement" theories that we must stay our military hand unless and until we first establish virtual international unanimity for whatever action we deem necessary to protect our interests).

España Vivir Para Siempre Long Live Spain.·

Thus far, it seems the people of Madrid (and Spain) are exhibiting the same moral stoutness as New Yorkers, Washingtonians, and Northern Virginians displayed in the wake of 9-11. The question remaining, of course, to which I hope the answer is "yes," is whether the next large scale attack inside America will elicit the same moral stoutness or instead weaken our will. My hope (like everyone else's hope) is that we never need to answer that question. However, it seems unlikely that at any time in the near future we will have the luxury of not needing to be prepared to answer it.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com

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