[Shermy]

"The West was warned."

Yeah, but they're not really listening. Lefties immediately framed it about "Iraq", though no Iraqis were involved, and Spain only provided peace keepers, whom most Iraqis support.

The message is about Afghanistan too, in which Spain provides support. Iran, oops, sorry, "AQ", might very well bomb again to get it's point accross to remove Spanish troops from its western border.

[Steve_Seattle]

Islamic terrorists always play a shell game: if we respond to a terrorist act, they cite our response as the rationale for further acts of terrorism. But if we don't respond, they will commit further acts of terrorism anyway; then, the excuse will be some long-ago or even ancient event: The Crusades, the reconquest of Spain by the Christians, the bombing of Hiroshima, the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Israel, etc.