"... Afghanistan? Yeah, I feel safer. Al Qaeda lost a major base of operations and isn't nearly as effective as it would have been if we hadn't gone in

They may have lost a major base of operations, Strick, but I would doubt that the citizens of Madrid would agree with you that they are anyhow less effective. It is nice that you feel safer though, but remember that there is a world outside your window, that is decidedly unsafer because of some of the policies of those various administrations you reckon I'm intent on blaming when their strategies don't work.

Jim