We Are All Spaniards

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:28R4c.9172$_w.267371@attbi_s53...
I don't agree, Jay. I doubt the perpetrators of the explosions in
Madrid
give
a damn what the Spaniards think of them. Do you think they expected
their
actions to endear them?

If not to rally men to their cause, for what purpose then?

To rally people against their cause. If they can force the "enemy" into
lashing
out against some state or culture, their cause gets furthered as more and
more
people of those states get affected by the invasion by the foreign state.

Ultimately, this is about who is in control. Without the masses, the
terrorists lose.

Unfortunately, nothing rallies the masses like an (offten seen as
unprovoked)
attack from a foreign state.

Paul