Today, surprisingly, there are not one but two articles in the American opinion press on Spain. Rafael Bardaji, a fellow at Aznar's think tank, has a good piece on ETA's "permanent cease-fire" in the National Review, in which he basically agrees with our post yesterday. He makes one error of interpretation: the new Catalan statute, deserving of criticism as it may be, does not give Catalonia "the right to secede." I think that Spanish centralists sometimes overstate the links between Basque and Catalan nationalism, and I don't see any connection between the Catalan statute of autonomy and ETA's announcement. Dan Darling has a piece in the Weekly Standard on the March 11 bombings, in which he blasts the CIS for saying that there was little or no contact between the Islamist terrorists who blew up the trains and Al Qaeda. Darling's article agrees with our commonsense position that all indicators point to this being an Al Qaeda job. Both articles are highly recommended.