The Democrats squealed like stuck pigs after President Bush gave his "appeasement" address before the Knesset during Israel's 60th birthday celebration. Here, in part, is what Bush told the Israeli parliament: "The fight against terror and extremism is the defining challenge of our time. .. Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator (William Borah, R-Idaho) declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."
Bush must have touched a real sore spot because the Democrats went ballistic. Although Bush did not mention anyone by name, Obama and his fellow dems apparently believed he was the target of Bush's appeasement remarks. Even though Obama had said he would meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Islamist President of Iran, WITHOUT PRE-CONDITIONS, it was more likely that Bush directed his comments at Jimmy Carter because the former president met last month with Hamas despite State Department requests that he not do so.
Obama was quick to take offense to Bush's remarks, calling the President a liar and claiming that he never said he would talk with terrorists. Hillary Clinton, who had previously criticized Obama's pledge to meet with Ahmadinejad, said, "President Bush's comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it."
Senator Joe Biden really went ape, saying: "This is bullshit. This is malarkey. Outrageous for the president of the United States to ................. make this kind of ridiculous statement." Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Bush "has fired yet another reckless and reprehensible round." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, "I think what the president did in that regard is beneath the dignity of the office of president ................ ."
The problem Democrats have is that President Bush was absolutely right when he characterized diplomatic meetings with terrorists and radicals as appeasement. Obama pledged to meet with Ahmadinejad, the chief financial backer, weapons supplier and military training provider of Hamas and Hezbollah, both of which have been designated as terrorist organizations by the U.S. and the European Union.
Ahmadinejad has referred to Israel as a DEAD RAT., a SAVAGE ANIMAL and a BLACK AND DIRTY MICROBE. In 2005 he said: "There is no doubt that the new wave (the second intifada) in Palestine will wipe off this stigma (Israel) from the face of the Islamic world. Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury, (while) any (Islamic leader) who recognizes the Zionist regime means he is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the Islamic world. The Imam said this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."
Ahmadinejad has repeadly called for the destruction of Israel and has also called for DEATH TO AMERICA. And this sponsor of terrorism with his radical rhetoric is the guy Obama has pledged to talk to WITHOUT PRE-CONDITIONS. If that's not appeasement, then what in the world is it? Is Obama so naive as to believe that he can persuade Ahmadinejad to kiss and make up with Israel and with America? If so, Obama must still believe in the tooth fairy.
Speaking of appeasement, a year before Borah wished he could have talked with Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, was convinced he had appeased Hitler out of going to war by conceding part of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. This is how Wikipedia describes the grinning Prime Minister's "triumphant" return to England - Neville Chamberlain holding the paper containing the resolution to commit to peaceful methods signed by both Hitler and himself on his return from Munich. Showing the piece of paper to a crowd at Heston Aerodrome, he said:
"...the settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem, which has now been achieved is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace. This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine (waves paper to the crowd - receiving loud cheers and "Hear Hears"). Some of you, perhaps, have already heard what it contains but I would just like to read it to you ...".
Later that day he stood outside Number 10 Downing Street and again read from the document and concluded: '"My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is PEACE FOR OUR TIME." The rest is history - World War II.
Having learned nothing from Chamberlain's failed "peace for our time" legacy, President Bill Clinton played his hand at trying to appease Yasser Arafat by pressuring Israel into agreeing to make concessions to the Palestinians, concessions that would have damaged the security of the Jewish State. Clinton thought he had obtained Arafat's agreement to make peace with Israel, but instead of peace, the PLO leader chose to bring on the first intifada.
Bush had it exactly right. It truly is a "foolish delusion" to think that you can make deals with fanatics and tyrants. History has shown repeatedly that appeasement, as was the case with Hitler and Arafat, merely whets the appetite of those bent on further conquests, a lesson apparently lost on Bill Cinton, Carter and Obama, as well as on Hillary Clinton, Biden, Reid, Pelosi and other leading Democrats.
As for Israel, Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, recently wrote: "Israel's crime is not its policies but its insistence on living. On the day the Arabs -- and the Palestinians in particular -- make a collective decision to accept the Jewish state, there will be peace, as Israel proved with its treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Until that day, there will be nothing but war. And every 'peace process', however cynical or well-meaning, will come to nothing."
And when might we expect peace between Issrael and the Arabs? Not anytime in the near future. As several analysts have noted, the Islamists want to kill all Christians and all Jews, whereas the moderate Muslims only want to kill all the Jews. Bush had it right when he implied that Carter and Obama were APPEASERS. So, if Obama becomes President and carries out his pledge to talk with Ahmadinejad, he will be, like Chamberlain and Bill Clinton before him, tilting at windmills.
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