[governsleastgovernsbest]

Neville-Chamberlain-lives ping to Today show list.

[NonValueAdded]

Ah, the Jimmy Carter solution! "Sorry, the problem is here to stay and best we learn to live with it."

[piasa]

Oh, great, another parchment moron.

[beyond the sea]

'Accept Iran's Dominant Influence In The Middle East'

Bebe/Binyamin ....... where are you?

[kjo]

The Left is morally and intellectually bankrupt.

[RichInOC]

Crack is bad, mmkay?

[piasa]

Isn't Rotberg German for "red city?"

[neodad]

Not unlike this famous quote from a great liberal military man: "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance".

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Sounds like the professor's sharpened his head to nice, shiny point. History is one of the easiest things to learn from: you either proactively stand up to bullies, dictators and totalitarian regimes, or you will have to reactively stand up to bullies, dictators and totalitarian regimes. All that education, wasted on an idiot.

[LibSnubber]

This liberal nutjob forgot to add the line "resistance is futile".

[betsyross1776]

Sorry I will not change my religion and bow to anybody but the God who I believe in. That is what they first want , read what they say. Second, I will not accept peace with a man who says the Holocaust did not exist. Third, he can take his oil and shove it where his mother never kissed him. I would rather be outside cutting trees for warmth and walking then make peace with a man who wants to destroy the world.

[Earthdweller]

Go back to your desk and hide while the adults take care of things will ya Professor?

[Obie Wan]

Hey,the Globe just had another layoff of personnel this week. I don't think these genius columnists are helping "Pravda northeast" much !!!

[gabidale89]

His last name ROTberg is very fitting.

I think his head is full of rot.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Is there no appeasement that some on the American left will not embrace, no surrender to Islamism it will not rush to accept?

The answer is so obvious that the question is silly.

The left (Democrats) are doing two things that they always do, consistently, with any large geopolitical issues: They are setting up a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation where they pay no price at all if we successfully pacify Iraq -- even if Bush wins in Iraq, they have demogogued our population into the belief that it isn't worth it, even in victory...that victory has no meaning. They have convinced the average, tuned out, American that they have no stake in Iraq in particular and the middle east in general.

That's important to the Democrats for the second reason: They win when all politics are small and localized. The Democrats win when the arguments of the day are social or cultural - becuase most mature democracies, like the U.S. today, turn socialist in nature. So if large geopolitical concerns like terrorism and aggressive, expansionist Islamo-fascism take a back seat in the internal politics of the U.S., the Democrats will more elections more often. They want the discussion to be about health care, education, child care, the problems of working moms, prescription drugs, the environment, spanking children, and so forth and so on. When our politics are based in these issues, their socialist viewpoints win for them consistently...because most female voters, minority voters and even a chunk of the male voters are looking for security in a social sense, not in a geopolitical one. Small politics at the personal level.

That's the Democrat's winning forumla, and they are relentless in pursuing the hegemony of those issues which bring them victory.

[IronJack]

Globe Columnist: 'Accept Iran's Dominant Influence In The Middle East'

All this surrenduring has to be keeping the libs busy! They've got to give up on half a dozen fronts these days. They're going to have to bring in some French consultants if this keeps up.

[hershey]

Why stop with letting Iran call the shots in the Middle East? We could accept/establish an Islamic theocracy worldwide, first in the US -- as an example for the rest of the world. Sharia, lopping off limbs, heads, stoning women to death, whatever makes Islamofascists happy. Presumably Robert Rotberg and others of his ilk (Liberal fools), believe they'd be exempt. Not so.

[Beckwith]

What an absolute a$$hole.

[Fresh Wind]

Former President of Lafayette College...

Well that makes perfect sense. Lousyette College.

[parisa]

Director of Harvards's Kennedy School Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution.


Can't these "Progressive" appeasers see that islamofascism is not as any other kind of "conflict" which can be resolved by lowering the heat?...That you can appease it out of its conflict. Its whole nature and raison d'etre is about conflict. Conflict with anything other than itself? Appeasing it only endangers more lives, prolongs the agony even longer, bring more misery to more people, allows the flood to only grow stronger and bolder and overtake everything. WHEN would appeasing be ENOUGH??? These moronic mindsets WILL NOT resolve the world's "conflicts" with islamofascism, it will EMPOWER IT.