Posted on 02/05/2015 1:20:48 PM PST by Servant of the Cross
The president’s disastrous foreign policy is as much a product of his own vanity as anything else.
Members of the Obama administration have insisted that the Taliban are not terrorists. Those responsible for the recent Paris killings are not radical Islamists. The Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular. Jihad is a “legitimate tenet of Islam.” And “violent extremism,” “workplace violence,” or “man-caused disaster” better describe radical Islamic terrorism. Domestic terrorism is just as likely caused by returning U.S. combat veterans, according to one report by a federal agency.
What is the point of such linguistic appeasement?
The word “appeasement” long ago became pejorative for giving in to bullies. One side was aggressive and undemocratic; the other consensual and eager to avoid trouble through supposedly reasonable concessions.
But appeasement usually weakened the democratic side and empowered the extremist one.
The architect of appeasement — for example, Neville Chamberlain, former prime minister of Great Britain — was predictably a narcissist. Chamberlain believed that his own powers of oratory, his insights into reason, and his undeniably superior morality would sway even a thug like Adolf Hitler.
President Obama currently is convinced that his singular charisma and rare insight into human nature will convince the Taliban to peacefully participate in Afghan politics. Obama will supposedly also win over the Iranian theocracy and show it how nonproliferation is really to everyone’s advantage.
“Reset” diplomacy with Putin was supposed to lessen tensions — if, after the 2012 election, Putin just had more exposure to a flexible statesman of Obama’s wisdom.
Throughout history, without the vanity of the conceder, there would never have been appeasement.
Appeasement also always subordinates the interests of vulnerable third parties to the appeaser’s own inflated sense of self.
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He’s Muslim, Jim.
I love VDH. He always manages to put things in complete perspective
VDH ping ...
He’s anti-American. He hates this country and wants it destroyed. Nazi, Communist, Islamofascist, it doesn’t matter — if you’re America’s enemy, Barack Hussein Obama is your friend.
You are on to the truth, there.
It’s not so much that Obama favors Communists, fascists, Muslims, etc,
it’s that he hates America, Westernism, and Christianity more than anything else.
Oh, I don’t think Obama’s a Muslim. I don’t think he’s a Christian either. He worships himself.
He’s more than “just” a Muslim.
He is the combination of the mooooooslem and communism, and you can’t find a worst person as the leader of our nation at this point and time (after Bush, I mean).
VDH churns out one gem after another, I just wish more in general public (esp. the young) can pay more attention.
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