The images that greeted me this morning were live from Madrid. I have to admit that nearly every time I get onto a crowded train there is a split second where I think about how easy it would be for someone to... I guess it is the last of the post traumatic stress that hangs around in my brain after 9/11. So what happened in Madrid has really left me upset. I see all of these people being carried out of trains and collapsing on the ground and think, what is accomplished by this? Early reports attribute the attack to ETA and I understand that most terrorist attacks come from groups who are in fact marginalised by larger societal and economic structures, but I can't see what is accomplished. It just makes people hate them more, strips their own people of rights, pushes them more into a hole. I sincerely don't understand what end such acts serve. It seems that no one wins.