THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON
Was the massacre in Madrid the work of al Qaeda? Of ETA? Of ETA and al Qaeda in a new alliance? Of ETA pretending to be al Qaeda? Regardless of its perpetrators, the election results provide an unhappy, and potentially dangerous, lesson: If you kill enough people, you can change the outcome of a democratic election.
Warning to terrorists: Americans do not draw the same conclusions from massacres that the Spanish did. Americans tend to rally around the president and direct our anger outward.