A car bomb was detonated at the Madrid airport today.

Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — Bomb disposal experts detonated a powerful truck bomb at Madrid airport today, damaging the arrivals lounge at the fourth terminal and destroying an entire floor of a parking lot. Two people are missing in the rubble.

“The information that we have leaves us with no shadow of a doubt that ETA is responsible,” said Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba at a Madrid press conference. The explosives were “extremely powerful,” he said.

Twenty-six people were treated for light injuries and five were later hospitalized, television station Antena 3 de Television reported. The blast was at about 9 a.m., some 55 minutes after security forces started evacuating the terminal.

That’s odd, I thought Spain had appeased the terrorists when they surrendered to al-Quaida after the train bombing in Madrid in March 2004.

Right after the 2004 attack the Spaniards elected a Socialist government who immediately threw up the white flag and withdrew their troops from Iraq. That was supposed to take care of everything for them. They’d be safe under the theory of appeasement.

Well. Not to worry. They were holding peace talks with the terrorists. Just yesterday Spanish Socialist President Zapatero said he was optimistic that Basque peace process was working.

“Are we better now with a permanent cease-fire or when we had bombs, car bombs and explosions?” Zapatero asked.

“This time next year we will be better off than we are today,” he said. “The government has worked and is working with the aim of seeing an end to the violence of horror and terror,” he added.

“Discretion is going to be the norm in everything related to a possible peace process with ETA,” Zapatero said. “It’s a sense of responsibility,” he added.

This example of how well appeasement and socialism work in the face of terrorism doesn’t bode well for the rest of us does it. Maybe ETA just didn’t get the memo about discretion and a sense of responsibililty.

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