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WHEN WILL OBAMA RESPOND TO 'APPEASEMENT' CHARGE?
Did anyone see the Conservative radio host on Chris Matthews who didn't know who Neville Chamberlain was and had never heard of the Munich Accords? Yes he was calling Obama an appeaser. Or the US Representative who wants the ten commandments in courthouses, but himself couldn't name more than three of them?
My fear is that if we don't start calling people's bluff when they compare Democrats to Nazi's and Nazi's appeasers, we will embolden them to continue lying.
The whole idea that talking to your enemies is a bad idea, is itself a bad idea. The best diplomatic solutions rarely come out of the end of a gun. And if all you have is a gun, as this administration appears to have, every thing looks like a target.
The fact is we have no real effective foreign policy beyond tough sounding soundbytes and policy papers written by much discredited neocon institutions by people who have never left the country. And we won't until we have a new president.
But really. Enough with the "appeasement" lectures. It's insulting. Especially at a time when not talking to our enemies cost lives.
Comment Posted By moi On 17.05.2008 @ 18:02
