little bit like september 11th. but one of the things, where i find solace or intellectual comprehension is, what's happened in other places and other times that is very similar. throughout history, there have been other countries assaults on parliaments, sometimes generals and soldiers, sometimes the rabble as we saw on the united states, so france in the 1930s, there was an attack on the parliament in spain, in 1980 when there was an attack on the parliament. often these attacks fail. but one of the most important things i thought about on that day was how does the establishment respond to this? how do mainstream parties respond to this, because if you look throughout history, one of the major determinants of history is how a country rebounds from those offenses is their uniform condemnation, across the political spectrum, in spain 1981, all the parties from the far left in the