It turns out that the Madrid bombings were planned by one of the architects of 9/11.

Now, I’m not a Spaniard, despite my swarthy good looks and tendency to lisp dramatically when challenging my thworn enemieth to deadly duelth. But if I were Thpanish - er - Spanish, I’d probably be looking at those 1300 soldiers of mine that were mucking about in Iraq on 3/11 and thinking… gosh, I wish they’d've been around here, you know, just to boost public spirits, help retrieve old ladies’ cats from trees, lend a hand decorating the streets for the Easter parade, and keep an eye out for Islamist maniacs trying to blow up the public transportation system. Things like that. This new revelation would definitely make me think about that.

Then again, if I were of the Spanish persuasion, I could also look back to my nation’s most recent elections and realize that we’d actually done something about it. We’d voted out the guy who’d gotten us involved in this unnecessary war, pulled our troops out, and refocussed the nation on domestic priorities, especially the protection of our citizenry. I’d know that even if there was another attack on our soil someday, at least our government had done everything possible to prevent it rather than sacrificing a gigantic amount of military and intelligence resources to a war that had absolutely, positively, beyond a show-of-a-doubtly, zero-bupkus-jackshit nothing to do with the previous attack on my country. I’d know that.

That’d be nice.