Not really. We should be careful in labeling the Spanish people as cowards, which they are not. They have simply made a very bad decision based on emotions.
Zapatero and his new administration are already saying that they will be tough on terror. But here's where the divergence comes, and this is exactly what Kerry and the dems will be doing here:
The socialists say that they will be tough on the real terrorists, and they will do what will really reduce terror, implying that Bush and Blair and Aznar going to Iraq had nothing to do with the real terrorists, and that all we are doing now is misguided or for ulterior motives. Watch Kerry to come out swinging with "If you elect me, I'll do what will really make us safer, not what the 'blood-for-oil Halliburton PNAC neocons' are doing to inflame America's allies and blunder unilaterally into unrelated, unjustified wars."
In other words, Kerry will run to the UN and apologize, run to France, Germany and Belgium and apologize, and then do everything possible to disengage US policy from Israel and make us the neutral, middle of the road superwimp that benevolently hands out food and AIDS money but takes no position on others' affairs. I only hope that enough of us have our head screwed on clearly come November to prevent the ketchup appeaser from coming to power.
Mothers funded by the Tides Foundation or MoveOn, who will tearfully implore "Why did George W Bush kill my son? And for nothing! We had no business in Iraq. It's all about oil! Boo hoo hoo hoooooo!"