DR: Tragedy strikes home

The sad news of two confirmed Dominican deaths in the train blasts in Madrid, Spain last week was carried by most of the weekend papers. Martha Scarlet Plasencia Hernandez and Enrique Garcia Gonzalez were listed as dead by the Dominican embassy in the Spanish capital city. Other Dominicans injured in the terrorist attacks were Nelly Grullon and Sandra Severino, who were treated and released from hospital, and Julio Cesar Martinez Morillo, who sustained three broken ribs and metal fragments in another rib and is awaiting surgery. Spanish authorities do not discard the possibility that other Dominicans are among the unidentified victims of the tragic bombings.

The pity of it is that Spain was so eager to appease the terrorists that it regards the 200 lives lost as worthy only of mounring and not as cause for retaliation. Cowering in a corner and begging "don't kill me" cannot be a response to terrorism... except in Europe.