Catholics From Spain

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"The record clearly shows that jihadists see the run-up to an election and the months just afterward as an opportune time to act. Everyone remembers the Bin Laden video that was released days before the 2004 presidential election and the Madrid train-station bombings that occurred 72 hours before Spain’s national elections in March of that year. When the conservative government of José María Aznar mistakenly attributed the attacks to Basque separatists, the public punished his party, which was felt to be pretending that its unpopular support for the war in Iraq had nothing to do with the attacks. The socialists, led by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, had been trailing in the polls, but after the government’s blunder, they thumped the conservatives by a five-point margin. Those are only the best-known jihadist interventions. Alongside them should be added the first bombing of the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993, a little more than a month after Bill Clinton took office, and the attack on the USS Cole on Oct. 12, 2000, three weeks before that year’s Bush-Gore matchup. Last year, radicals attempted multiple car bombings in London and Glasgow, Scotland, three days after Gordon Brown’s June 27 installation as Britain’s prime minister. And let’s not forget the murder of Benazir Bhutto while she was campaigning in Pakistan or the September 2004 bombing of the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, which preceded the Australian elections by a month."

- José María Aznar

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"La verde es color primera Del mundo, y en quien consiste Su hermosura, pues se viste De verde la primevera. Es aquel verde ornamento, Pues sin voz y con aliento La vista mas lisonjera Nacen de varios colores. En cuna verde las flores, Que son estrellas del viento.Al fin es color del suelo, Que se marchita y se pierde; Y cuando el suelo de verde Se vista, de azul el cielo. Primavera es su azul velo, Donde son las flores bellas Vivas luces; mira en ellas, Qué trofeos son mayores, Un campo cielo de flores, O un cielo campo de estrellas.Ese es color aparente, Que la vista para objeto Finge; que el cielo en efeto Color ninguno consiente. Con azul fingido miente La hermosura de su esfera: Luego en esa parte espera Ser la tierra preferida, Pues la una es beldad fingida Y otra es pompa verdadera.Confieso, que no es color Lo azul del cielo, y confieso, Que es mucho mejor por eso; Porque, si fuera en rigor Propio, no fuera favor La eleccion; y de aqui infiero, Que, si le eligió primero, Fue, porque lo azul ha sido Aun mejor para fingido, Que otro para verdadero.Lo verde dice esperanza, Que es el mas immenso bien Del amor. Digalo quien Ni la tiene ni la alcanza. Lo azul zelos y mudanza Dice, que es tormento eterno, Sin paz, quietud ni gobierno. Qué importa pues, que el amor Tenga del cielo el color, Si tiene el mal del infierno?Quien con esperanza vive, Poco le debe su dama; Pero quien con zelos ama, En bronce su amor escribe; Luego aquel que se apercibe Á amar zeloso, hace mas, En cuya razon verás, Cuanto alcanzan sus dusvelos; Pues el infierno de zelos No espera favor jamas."

- Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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