The Enemy Within

None of the celebrations after the victory of Spanish football fanatic was disturbed by some in the wider world. That just happened, but episodically, in Spain itself. Not only in Euskadi and Catalonia, where it was predictable, but violent incidents also occurred in Andalusia and elsewhere. And is that we do not need external enemies, that's what we ourselves enough.

Years ago, an American all versed in history, asked me if our country was united to France because both countries have been allies in the Second World War. "You are mistaken, 'I replied, we do not participate in that or in other foreign wars, to us what we really like is to kill each other."

There's the story to corroborate this gruesome hobby. In the last 300 years we have had five civil wars and two others which, all things considered, could be considered as such.

I do not mean by this that we find ourselves before the embryo of a new conflict, so help me God. And immediately explicit because there's always one who seeks to get three-legged cat and we attribute to others what we have said. But I practiced a policy of intimidating the ideological rival, ranging from the players cross Puyol and Xavi botiflers (traitors) in blogs Catalan nationalists to split a guy for wearing the team jersey.

These are isolated events, yes, but worth a go learning to be separatists, centralist or mediopensionistas so without breaking the necks of our neighbor.