SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, BUDDY! It's amazing how one single sentence can bring so much light to what's wrong with this country and particularly the leftist academia:

"We Spanish saw the reaction to 9-11 in the United States as a bit hysterical," said Antonio Remiro, professor of international affairs at the Autonomous University of Madrid. "Maybe we're more fatalistic in Spain. But people don't want to live with this perpetual fear of another terrorist strike."

I don't think the word to use here is "fatalistic". It's "afraid", since the situation he says people wanted to avoid is fear (of another terrorist strike). That's fear, in my book. Funny, because so many people, pro-Zapatero, dispute vigorously, as if it was a personal offence, the suggestion that the March 14 surprising results were the product of fear.

As for the characterization of the reaction to 9/11 as "hysterical", well, it speaks for itself. Anyway, the guy thinks he can speak for all Spaniards. Not in my name, buddy, not in my name.

Anyway, Remiro, if it's true that people don't want to live with this perpetual fear of another terrorist attack, what do you make of these?