I think military power is still an important factor in a Super Power, and no country has a better army (or even near) than the States. Sure nuclear bombs and MDW count, but old-good army (together with good intelligence services) is still a big point out there. Perhaps communications, internet avaliability and so could also count. Also, as I long ago heard, I still think Brazil is the future...and always will be
Thanks for your remark. You can't say that I didn't warn you about my english ;-)
No doubt about it, but I think war would have had a lesser effect if the terrorist attack hadn't happened. Numbers are that the PP lost no more than 750,000 votes form the previous election, socialist party won about 3,000,000 new voters. Also, until thursday the published polls showed that the PP was still in front for the election, and nobody could expect the final results. I'll try to focus on this issue in following articles.
It's a minor issue after everything that has happened in the last week at Spain, I know. But I can't take it from my mind. I think the first time I herd the reasoning was stated by Arnaldo Otegui, ETA's political arm speaker, when one of the arguments he stand against an involvement of ETA in the bombs was that "the victims were innocent. They we
Yes, the ability stands, but it has never passed due to two fundamental reason of our political scheme: the president of the government is elected by the congress representatives, and usually is the head of the political party of the most-voted party. And second, there is an very, very strong party discipline on political votes, in part because we do not vote for a person to be representative at the congress, but instead a political list made by the po
As promised, here are my thoughts on why Aznar stand side by side with Bush on his whole anti-terrorism war, ending with his support (but not active support, with spanish troops) on Irak war. It's not an original one, some of theseremarks has been published on spanish books or newspapers and spoken on radio-stations, but I
As spaniard, I think I should make some remarks on you comments on Spain elections. I've made an article on my blog "From the ocean...", just to let you know that not everybody here is that way you state, that 9,630,512 people (included me) voted for the PP, and I intend to go on on new articles each day. I just wat to tell you that I haven't cried as I did the day the terrorist attack on Madrid since I did it on 9/11. That I am for the interventio
Some conclusions I get after my country's( for how long it will be a whole country?) general elections: 1. Terrorists can alter the results of an election. It's just a matter of how many people the kill and the proper media aid. 2. The more people they kill, the urged the people feels to seek "dialogue" with the killers instead on fighting them. 3. Only three things gets together all the nacionalism and left-wing people in Spain: their hate
The idea of writting a blog has been in my head since I first herd of them. Living in Spain, it was about the beginning of the Irak operations (talk about globalization...we still are at the jurassic era in internet issues). But I always was hesitating about the idea of expressing my thoughts, and on being able to do it on a standard basis... Then I found JoeUeser. And Brad Wardell. And at least, I'll try to do my best. And,getting things even more difficult, I'll also try to write in engli
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