What is the motivation for this?
Of course not though
Of course not though whether it was today, next year we have the whole thing arse about face. Good work? Make him a martyr it will all go away?
Errrmm... being IslamistsWhat is the motivation for this?
Possibly, but more probably like previous attacks it will be forgotten soon enough. 190 Died in Madrid in the 2004 train bombings, but it's not something we think about that much. And despite being around at the time of 7/7 I can't say that the fear of being blown up blights my journey to work every day. People outside the European bubble put up with far worse on a daily basis and still manage to carry on with their lives.
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What is the motivation for this?
Yes and no. Spain has its own tensions and its own problems. France may need to face up to itself. Does need to face up to itself, but it's too early to say what the effects of this will be. We can know what le Pen will want to make of it. But we can also know that many good French people will resist them.Yes but the Madrid train bombing was the result of an intervention which was massively unpopular with the Spanish people, and the PSOE government then withdrew from Iraq. Spain doesn't have anything approaching the intercommunal tensions that France does. I wish you were right but you aren't.
Errrmm... being Islamists
I hope Tony Blair can sleep at night
He was deluded and wrong and caused a whole lot of death and grief but not the sole cause of what's happening now. That's too simplistic.I hope Tony Blair can sleep at night
This, and every attack like it, is all more evidence to fence sitters that a Europe of many peoples is impossible. The responses will produce the same effect.
Again this is a discussion for another thread, but I think exactly the opposite of what you say is going to be the result of this sort of thing.
what i love about urban are incisive comments like this whichget straight to the nub of the issueErrrmm... being Islamists
Errrmm... being Islamists
police saying 100 dead at the theatre
Go on, then, start a new thread about Schengen and European unity. Lots of people will pile in after tonight's dénouement, if it will ever dénouer.Again this is a discussion for another thread, but I think exactly the opposite of what you say is going to be the result of this sort of thing.
Probably not quite the time for this yet, but it's wrong-headed to think of suicide attacks in terms of 'nutters' or religion. They always have a political aim and a political motivation. They are rational from a particular point of view. That is how to understand them.No there has to be more to it. I don't mean any disrespect but there are nutters on both sides now and have been for years. Do ours know what they are doing? Legitimate grievences rather than sad wankers wanting to blow themselves up for 70 virgins narrative?
yeah its an age old guerilla tactic. Strategy of tension.