AUSSIES SHOW BACKBONE UNLIKE SPANISH

Great editorial and reminder that not all have to bow down to the fear and threat of terrorists. Many Spanish who voted in their new government in the past election should go watch "Gladiator" as a lesson in courage and having a backbone.


Two Wins Against Terror
Elections in Afghanistan and Australia turn out to be nothing like Spain.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Monday, October 11, 2004

Democracy is a force terrorists dread. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has warned his al Qaeda associates that democracy in Iraq would "suffocate" the terror campaign he is orchestrating from his base in Fallujah. Voters Saturday in two very different parts of the world proved his point. Australians enthusiastically re-elected John Howard, a staunch U.S. anti-terror ally, and the Afghans pulled off, against tremendous odds, the country's first national election for a president. (full article)