Posted on 05/06/2010 3:25:44 AM PDT by Scanian
Appeasement doesn't work. It doesn't work with dictators, and it doesn't work with terrorists. The attempted Times Square bombing was yet more proof.
We've allowed Islamist extremists to dictate what we can say, print or portray. We don't want to offend them. The First Amendment bows before Islam.
The Obama administration has ducked all unwelcome evidence that such appeasement doesn't work. Instead, it goes to absurd lengths to convince Muslim radicals that we respect their views.
Our counterfactual assumption is that, if we're really, really nice, the fanatics will stop being grumpy and blowing us up. But Islamist extremists haven't read our actions (or inactions) as an admirable exercise in tolerance. They read our bowing and scraping and apologizing as weakness.
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Another great essay by Ralph Peters.
He’s on my short list of “must reads” along with Tom Sowell, Victor Davis Hanson, Mark Steyn and just a few others.
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I cringe when Obama sucks up to our enemies. He’s inviting war. Hasn’t he read the history of the events leading up to WWII? Hitler was watching closely the pacification of the American public and moving his chess men forward through Europe AS A RESULT!
Here’s how appeasement works: I’m out camping in the jungle when I’m threatened by lions all around me. So I roast a big turkey and take it out to them to assuage their hunger.
Appetizer?
This is a plea to any bureaucrats out there...please stop letting anyone buy a one way ticket for cash at the gate!!!! Can’t they just get that one thing down right?
The real problem is that we is not we. When the sleeze in the white house and capitol and union halls and Acorn hovels are separated from the rest the real we is revealed.
Until the usurpers are gone, finished , eliminated, the problem will continue.
Sad reality is he knows exactly what he’s doing. He is the puppet and he is taking his orders well.
America’s largest act of appeasement was electing the Muslim in Chief.
The Muslim world took note. Terror ensued.
The muslim in the whitehouse acts like a muslim Capture one and he spills everything he knows, so he won’t get hurt. Have you seen a picture of the muslim, during a martial arts show on the south lawn of the whitehouse? When one of the participants was flipped over, the whitehouse muslim cringed and pressed against MissShell. He’s a physical coward.
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