Remember all the "If ___, then the terrorists will have won" cliches shortly after 9/11?

After committing Spain's equivalent of 9/11 last week, guess what?

They won--at the ballot box.

InstaPundit has lots of thoughts and links.

UPDATE: Virginia Postrel writes:

Warning to terrorists: Americans do not draw the same conclusions from massacres that the Spanish did. Americans tend to rally around the president and direct our anger outward.