NationStates Jolt Archive

If it's not Islamic funamentalist terrorists, it's the Basque separatists. Spain just can't win for losing.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/12/spain.eta/index.html

Guess the socialist government couldnt stop terrorism either.

It's sad how Spain is thrown around. Fortunatly, these guys are pretty harmless. They may do a small assasination or car bomb, but only once in a while. The other terrorists, however, are destructive and lethal.

spain has had basque seperatist terrorists for many many years. if you recall the last govt immediately blamed basques for the train bombings

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This is true, the Basques have had issues for a long time. However, it was sort of funny to watch Spain go into Iraq and then pull out, all the while basically stepping on the Basques as hard as they dared.

Guess the socialist government couldnt stop terrorism either.

Well yeah, blaim it on a government that is in charge since a few months that it can not stop something that exist decades :rolleyes:

Did Bush won his war against Osama? No, instead of fighting terrorisme he continues to steal the Arrab oil wells and put his vasals in place. In september he had 3 years to stop All Quaida and you blaim the new Spanish government?

You must be a sick republican lifeform to use such double standards :rolleyes:

Still, what steps, exactly, has the brave new socialist government taken to stop the persecution of the Basque?

Well yeah, blaim it on a government that is in charge since a few months that it can not stop something that exist decades :rolleyes:

You must be a sick republican lifeform to use such double standards :rolleyes:


OK, how bout you, you dont blame George Bush for 9-11, in which he was in charge for a few months only, and I wont blame these terrorists attacks on the socialist gov'mint in spain. Thank you, and I will not respond to your flamebait either. Thank you.

Still, what steps, exactly, has the brave new socialist government taken to stop the persecution of the Basques?

Sadly, if modern Spanish history is anything to go by, they are probably still trying to stop persecution by the Basques -- or rather, by the minority violent separatist Basques. The outlawing of the most militant Basque political party by the previous government probably hasn't helped things. Even the Thatcher government never banned Sinn Feinn (although they did stop them using their own voices when their members were interviewed on TV -- a somewhat surrealist approach, even for the Tories).

what americans don't know is that one of the issues that caused the psoe to fall from power before was their approach to terrorism. they wound up running a bit of a "shoot first, shoot some more, shoot some other people, and them maybe ask a few questions later" approach.