There are some countries that you REALLY do not attack in a way that created moral outrage in its citizens... America and Britain are such countries... Spain is not...

The citizens of America and Britain are USED to being superpowers- so when someone F**ks with them they get ANGRY AND damn well expect the bastards to be wiped out... pissing off America and Britain by killing their citizens is an expensive form of suicide... The 'waking a sleeping dragon' analogy is a very apt one...

The Madrid bombings worked for the terrorists, and no matter your view on the Iraq war that is a bad thing.

I predict that, in spite of the justified unpopularity of the Iraq war in Britain, This will only increase Britain's resolve....

This was a VERY stupid move by the terrorists...