A tragic day
Mar. 15th, 2004 09:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueToday will be one remembered in history.
The socialist party won the elections in spain.
The details may be found here.
Don't get me wrong though. I'm sure that the spanish socialist party are a thoroughly solid bunch. And they won a democratic election. I think that under their rule Spain will do just fine.
The real tragedy is that they weren't going to win before the recent train explosion. I believe this is a disaster even beyond those that happened at the world trade centre.
Very simply. It has now been demonstrated that terrorism works. The world has now seen an objective lesson that if you kill a hundred people in a train incident, the people who were expected to win the elections with 70% of the vote, didn't.
We now have all the proof these psychopaths need that 'their way' of suicide bombings, plane crashes, car bombs and a plethora of atrocities actually work.
A terrorist has no regard for human life, other than how it may be used to advance their cause.
The other thing I have heard is that the train explosion was terrible because x people died, and y were injured. That's the wrong way of looking at it. Whenever you refer to numbers of casualties you're obscuring the fact that each and every one were individuals. With families, friends and lives
If I should die in a terrorist attack, I would ask that you do not consider the 'what ifs'. The responsibility for my death is soley because some psychopath thought it was to their advantage. Not because of any wars, political choices, racial hatred or otherwise.
The person who made and placed the bomb are simply murderers. The same as the person who murders a family member for their inheritance. To give any further weight to them is a guarantee that it will happen again.
Terrorists have no cause.
They exist only to cause chaos and misery - everything else is just an excuse. A tool for them to continue. They are the small minded attention seekers. Ignore them and get on with life. Mourn for those lost, and hope that there will be no recurrence. Issue warrants for the arrest of mass murderers. But give the terrorists exactly what they deserve.
Nothing.
That is how we win the war on terror.
The socialist party won the elections in spain.
The details may be found here.
Don't get me wrong though. I'm sure that the spanish socialist party are a thoroughly solid bunch. And they won a democratic election. I think that under their rule Spain will do just fine.
The real tragedy is that they weren't going to win before the recent train explosion. I believe this is a disaster even beyond those that happened at the world trade centre.
Very simply. It has now been demonstrated that terrorism works. The world has now seen an objective lesson that if you kill a hundred people in a train incident, the people who were expected to win the elections with 70% of the vote, didn't.
We now have all the proof these psychopaths need that 'their way' of suicide bombings, plane crashes, car bombs and a plethora of atrocities actually work.
A terrorist has no regard for human life, other than how it may be used to advance their cause.
The other thing I have heard is that the train explosion was terrible because x people died, and y were injured. That's the wrong way of looking at it. Whenever you refer to numbers of casualties you're obscuring the fact that each and every one were individuals. With families, friends and lives
If I should die in a terrorist attack, I would ask that you do not consider the 'what ifs'. The responsibility for my death is soley because some psychopath thought it was to their advantage. Not because of any wars, political choices, racial hatred or otherwise.
The person who made and placed the bomb are simply murderers. The same as the person who murders a family member for their inheritance. To give any further weight to them is a guarantee that it will happen again.
Terrorists have no cause.
They exist only to cause chaos and misery - everything else is just an excuse. A tool for them to continue. They are the small minded attention seekers. Ignore them and get on with life. Mourn for those lost, and hope that there will be no recurrence. Issue warrants for the arrest of mass murderers. But give the terrorists exactly what they deserve.
Nothing.
That is how we win the war on terror.
