I'm not convinced that Spain "gave in to the terrorists" or whatever.
Even before the train bombings the opposition party was leading in the polls (thanks in part to their promise to remove Spanish troops from Iraq), and then the government really shot themselves in the immediate aftermath of the attacks by prematurely blaming the Basque terror group ETA.
It's not exactly fair to call Spaniards weak-willed or anything or saying that terrorism was effective there when it's likely the government would have been defeated and Spanish troops returned home from Iraq even if the bombings had never occurred.
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