Originally posted by Emerald Aeris
I can't really blame Spain for backing out. It's favouring its people over anyone else, and why wouldn't it? Maybe they're "cowardly" or whatever you'd like to call it, but they're saving lives of their own citizens by preventing terrorist attacks.
Who is to say that the terrorists won't keep attacking Spain? This is where the appeasement analogy does apply - France and England handed over the Sudetenland on the premise that Hitler would stay true to his word. Likewise, the Spanish people voted for a leader who would bring them out of the war on the premise at they wouldn't be attacked again. This time, though, they weren't even given a false promise that they wouldn't be attacked. They are afraid, and are thinking of their personal safety before their freedom. What is going to happen in Spain the next time terrorists attack, and the time after that?

It is the will of the people, though. So be it.

I fear neither pain nor death, but I do fear a cage from which I can never escape; a cage where I will stay until I am old and empty and have come to accept it as my ultimate fate.