Spanish Version The 9/11 attacks were shocking. And so were the 2004 Madrid train bombings. After all, they represented the first major terrorist atrocities committed by modern jihadism on Western soil. Accordingly, our politicians framed the events with various cognitive metaphors pertaining to the domain of exceptionality, madness and irrationality. Fast forward 15 years and regardless of hundreds of additional attacks, yielding thousands of deaths and casualties, it wou