A few words on Obama and terrorist appeasement
I think Barack Obama has confused being defensive with national defense. Instapundit made an excellent observation about the presumptive Democrat nominee’s response to President Bush’s foreign policy speech yesterday:
MEMO TO THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN: When somebody condemns appeasement, it doesn’t help things to jump up and yell “Hey, he’s talking about me!”
Ken McCracken not only takes the ball into the end zone, he does the funky chicken.
Obama walked into this like a drunk into an open manhole, drawing all kinds of attention to the fact that Obama does in fact favor appeasing America’s enemies. Giving rogue terrorist states the honor and legitimacy of meeting with America’s leader with no conditions and nothing more than a wistful hope that something positive will come of it is indeed appeasement, even if it is not on the scale of handing the entire Sudetenland over to Hitler. Obama flip-flopped on his statement that he would meet with the leaders of Iran and North Korea without any preconditions and now claims he does not favor that policy, but it is too late. We now know what his instincts tell him to do, and it is to capitulate whenever possible. Presumably because America is at fault in the first place, which is of course what his good friend, mentor and spiritual advisor Jeremiah Wright counsels.
Just a few other thoughts on appeasement in general:
“The truly and deliberately evil men are in a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser’s intellectual abdication that invites them to take over.” – Ayn Rand (h/t: DPGI)
And on Barack Obama’s contentious need to lash out:
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
