A Lesson In Spin: 2 Views
Mar. 16th, 2004 01:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fjWhat We Know:
In 2003 the Spanish government joined the Iraq invasion against the wishes of a huge part of the population.
A series of bombs went off in Madrid March 11th 2004.
Three days later the government was thrown out in an election in favor of a party that did not want to go into Iraq.
Two views on this event that I have heard:
View 1
The Spanish population caved in to terrorism and opted for isolationist safety.
View 2
The Spanish population was promised the world would be a safer place by invading Iraq, looked at the evidence, and decided to sack the lot who made the now obviously false promise.
1 is about seeing people as cowards. 2 is about seeing people as empowered citizens holding government officials personally accountable for their decisions. The thing is that I haven't seen a national exit poll to warrant either 1 or 2 or both.
In 2003 the Spanish government joined the Iraq invasion against the wishes of a huge part of the population.
A series of bombs went off in Madrid March 11th 2004.
Three days later the government was thrown out in an election in favor of a party that did not want to go into Iraq.
Two views on this event that I have heard:
View 1
The Spanish population caved in to terrorism and opted for isolationist safety.
View 2
The Spanish population was promised the world would be a safer place by invading Iraq, looked at the evidence, and decided to sack the lot who made the now obviously false promise.
1 is about seeing people as cowards. 2 is about seeing people as empowered citizens holding government officials personally accountable for their decisions. The thing is that I haven't seen a national exit poll to warrant either 1 or 2 or both.
