The Spanish election results are stunning – but they shouldn’t have been. We’ve known of the continental European (and Spanish) predilection for weakness when fascism threatens -- for quite some time.
The majority of Spanish voters opposed their leader’s support for the invasion of Iraq; but we still assumed that the Spanish opposed radical Islamic terrorism. Guess again. This election reveals that the Spanish do NOT want to actively confront Islamic-fascist terrorism; they prefer to PLACATE IT.
This is called appeasement, historically, and can be seen in the behavior of European governments during the 1930’s.
It also means that the European Left is taking a leadership position now in specifically seeking to calm terrorism by trying to give it what it wants. Obviously, the European Left thinks it’s dealing with a benign and temporary aberration, here. This mistake was made once before.
As the blog Belmont Club says in its entry "The Dark Night of Spirit":
“The victory of the Socialist Party in Spain and its probable withdrawal from an active alliance with the United States in the Global War on Terror…establishes the iron linkage between Eurosocialism and militant Islam, indeed demonstrates for all the world to see the subordination of the Euroleft to the Global Jihad. The last claim of Marxism-Leninism to the leadership of history is gone.”
My philosophical question: why is the soul of Europe today longing so for obliteration?