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I dare say that no tears were shed for Lasa and Zabala, and that the only thing that most Spaniards regret about GAL is how incompetently their operations were carried out, and all the collateral damage they caused (most notably, the kidnapping of Segundo Marey by mistate).
The problem is that some people claim the GAL was deliberately inept in order to scare France into strengthening anti-ETA cooperation.
Politically, the GAL affair paralyzed Felipe Gonzalez's government for the second half of its 14-year tenure, and breathed a whole 10 years of new life into ETA.
A mistake all around. A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman
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