WE TRIED APPEASEMENT ONCE BEFORE... -- Neville Again!

http://www.iconoclast.ca/NewPage11.asp ^ | MARK STEYN

[Apolitical]

Over the years a revulsion against any kind of "power politics" has come to trump whatever revulsion post-Auschwitz Europe might feel about mass murder. That's why the EU let hundreds of thousands of Bosnians and Croats die on its borders until the Americans were permitted to step in. That's why the fact that thousands of Iraqis are no longer being murdered by their government is trivial when weighed against the use of Anglo-American military force required to effect their freedom. "Never again" has evolved to mean precisely the kind of passivity that enabled the Holocaust first time round. "Neville again" would be a better slogan....

[Apolitical]

The Chamberlain virus is on the loose again!

[risk]

Almost every word of Mr Beach's is false; there are mosques in the English Midlands, but no Christian churches in Saudi Arabia.

buuuuuuump

They're travelling light on the bridle-paths of Europe - the small cells that operate in the nooks and crannies of a free society, while politicians cling to the beaten tracks - old ideas, multicultural pieties and a general hope that things will turn out for the best.

[Savage Beast]

"The people of Madrid are reaping the fruits of our intolerance towards those of different races and religions. The war in Iraq was never going to solve the problems of that region but instead inflamed Arab people all over the world to new heights of anger towards the West."

What a stupid klunk this Mark Beach is! No wonder Muslims hold such people in contempt. Anyone would--especially the truthful and intelligent.

"Liberals" are herd animals. That is one reason that they are so contemptable.

What a brilliant, articulate observer this Mark Styne is! How refreshing is the ring of truth!

[Cicero]

Excellent, as usual.

Just one exception: "That's why the EU let hundreds of thousands of Bosnians and Croats die on its borders until the Americans were permitted to step in."

I know a lot of conservatives and Republicans still don't understand the significance of clinton's war against Yugoslavia. But couldn't Steyn at least add the Serbians to the list of the dead?

Yes, peacekeeping may have been needed in Bosnia. But what was needed was peacekeeping, not jumping in with both feet on the side of the Muslim terrorists. And certainly not what was done against Belgrade and in Kosovo.

If a brilliant and very knowledgeable guy like Steyn doesn't get it, then who does?

[F.J. Mitchell]

My sentiments, exactly.

[tjg]

" Don't ask me why Greenpeace is opposed to the liberation of Iraq."

Because it's a radical leftist organization and it's knee jerk reaction is to oppose anything proposed or conducted by the right. As clever a fellow as Styn is, I'm surprised he even wrote that sentence.

[risk]

No, he's right there. Europe could have moved into the vacuum that Tito left and pushed Europe's civilized and free borders all the way to Kosovo in 1990. There might have been some fighting for NATO to do then, but liberal Europeans were too spineless. Just like now.

Every time we back away from our responsibilities, we multiply the future suffering.