JACOB T. LEVY says that the negative take on the Spanish elections is all wrong: “[W]ithdrawing peacekeeping troops from Iraq just isn’t such an out-of-bounds policy. A party that proposed to withdraw from Andalusia and hand it over to bin Laden for the restoration of the Caliphate would be something else entirely; that’s nothing at all like what’s going on in the real world.”

UPDATE: Bryan Preston says that Levy is missing the context here. See also Steven Den Beste’s uncharacteristically terse comment.