The terror attack presented them a stark choice, and this fellow explains just how he evaded that choice. Thus defaulting to the worse of the two options. This is the mechanism of intellectual and moral cowardice in one of its more naked manifestation. (Though you yourself demonstrate an even puter form above.)

According to this fellow, Aznar would have had a hard time winning no matter what he said. The appeasement was already there. But what does he know? He's just a guy on the scene. He hasn't the wisdom or insight of our own rcaragea.