Buying Some Safety: What gain for Spain to give Bush such a pain? Scant weeks after Spaniards elected an anti-terror-war socialist, who immediately reaffirmed his intent to pull Spanish troops off the U.S. team, more bombs appear. Gosh, what could those naughty terrorists want now?

Does al-Andalus ring any bells?

Memo to Europe: Jumping off the team doesn't cut much ice with religious fascists. Not when you have a secular government needing a dose of sharia, a free press needing a bit of from-the-top editorial control, and plenty women -- showing a very European bit of leg -- needing to be burqa'd for the sake of public order.