I agree with the bottom line of this editorial: our public diplomacy in Europe is terrible, crisis-level terrible, and has to be fixed. I also think that he has a nice line on the Spanish election: “Some say that the election result was an expression of democracy. That’s true. It was an expression of a popular willingness to retreat in the face of terror.” Obviously there is a lot of truth to this comment. But I cannot completely agree with it. What would you do if your government, in the immediate aftermath of a terrible attack, seemed to be directing you to the wrong culprits as a way of avoiding political damage? If I were a Spaniard, I probably would not have voted for the Socialists under the circumstances. But then again I might have–and I can certainly see 7 to 10 percent of the electorate feeling that way.