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Sunday, March 27, 2005
Notes Cicero, Spain has effectively shut off all peaceful, political outlets for expression for Basque nationalists. What's that leave? Well, submission or violence.
The Zapatero government owes its existence to an al-Qaeda attack at first wrongly blamed on the Basques.
What will it say, then, if the Basques are at the source of new violence?
Will they falsely blame al-Qaeda?
I understand Spain's problem in that you can't let unhappy constituencies leave your country willy-nilly. But given the Basques' historic separation from everyone else, it would seem like they could offer up enough autonomy to marginalize the full-blown secessionists while making the majority of folks who are Basqe first, Spanish second happy.
posted by gbarto at 10:06 PM
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