Emmanuel Gustin wrote:


Dubyah's favourite whine is that everyone who is not 100%
behind him is giving in to terrorism.

What would you call it, instead?

Maybe Zapatero thinks Spain knows better ways to fight terrorism.

Send them birthday cards?
Increase their terrorism threat level from "run" to "hide"?

Without leaders able to make essential, but possibly
unpopular decisions, a citizenry soon learns it can vote
troublesome options into oblivion, and vote itself a "golden
age" of peaceful indulgence... for a short time. Terrorists
watch with glee as these sheep grow to accept extortion as a
good way to ensure a few more days of the grand times - until
collapse.