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Even before I heard about the Madrid train bombings, it crossed my mind that March 11 was the semi-anniversary of our own encounter with evil on 9/11. Unusual as it may sound, the calendar has become a weapon used against us in the war on terror.
Now that a cruelly timed attack has been shown to have influence over the course of free elections, we're likely to experience more such events in the years to come. That is, unless we figure out how to neutralize the calendar.