Madrid bombing - another view

Charles at Little Green Footballs has an interesting observation on Al Qaeda tactics and Sun Tzu’s Art of War. bq. The best warfare strategy is to attack the enemy’s plans, next is to attack alliances, next is to attack the army, and the worst is to attack a walled city. This is just what they did. Spain was a major friend to the USA during the Iraq mission. The government suffered a lot of criticism from this and now, it is payback time -- this is the eve of a national election and the choice is to re-elect PP Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar or Socialist Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and with 96% of the polls in, it looks like the Socialists have won. This is a major loss for Spain and if the Islamofacists take this lesson home, they will try the same thing here a week or two before our Presidential election. England is up for a vote this year too...