The same self-defeating mentality pervades Jewish, Jewish-American, and American leftism. “If we do nothing to provoke our enemies, maybe they will go away. If we accept this little appeasement, they will leave us alone”.
Joe Lieberman is the exception that proves the rule.
Interesting, however, that leftists in nations like China or Russia do not share this philosophy. They believe in expansionism and aggression, not passivity and appeasement.
Obama has taken it a step further in an even more dangerous self-delusional way. I can only speculate that Obama believes that if you engage your enemies, you can convince them not to attack you, but I’m not really sure what his intentions are.
A lot of Kapos and Judenrat members thought the same thing during WWII, only to eventually find themselves going to the "showers" with the rest of the Jews.
And then you had the George Soros types, that thought as long as their fellow Jews were getting killed, they might as well make money off of it.
There are two distinct leftist ideologies, one for each side of the Hegelian dialectic. The "thesis" (the "oppressed," or the "afflicted" who need "comfort") get a goose-stepping, super patriotic, militaristic self worship. What is Afrocentrism but right wing nationalism for Blacks? And what is "gay pride" if not right wing nationalism for the "ethnic group" of homosexuals?
Every "national liberation struggle" uses this form of Leftism. The Irish Republican movement is as full of chauvinism and pride as any Afrocentrist professor in the United States.
Meanwhile the "antithesis" (the "oppressors," or the "comfortable" who need to be "afflicted") get a self-hating, pacifistic, hippie wimp self-hatred. They do drugs, grow their hair long, and want to disarm (as opposed to newly "liberated" nations which build war machines).
The Left can let me know when I get the same deal as the Irish, the "gays," and the Blacks (and the moslems).