Democrats Protest Too Much "Speaking before the Israeli Knesset yesterday, President Bush warned against the siren song of appeasement in the struggle against Islamofascism. Here is an excerpt of his remarks:
“Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.’ We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history. Some people suggest if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away.
“This is a tired argument that buys into the propaganda of the enemies of peace, and America utterly rejects it. Israel’s population may be just over 7 million. But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307 million strong, because the United States of America stands with you. …America stands with you in firmly opposing Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions. Permitting the world’s leading sponsor of terror to possess the world’s deadliest weapons would be an unforgivable betrayal for future generations. For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”
The president never mentioned anyone by name, but, interestingly, it was Barack Obama who urgently ran to the nearest microphone to let everyone know that he wasn’t an appeaser. Congressional Democrats, like Nancy Pelosi (who met with Syria’s dictator) and Joe Biden, rushed to Obama’s defense, all squealing like stuck pigs. The over-reaction of hypersensitive liberals led Sen. McCain to correctly point out that it was Barack Obama who promised to meet, face-to-face with no preconditions, with America’s most ardent enemies – thugs like Hugo Chavez (who we know from recent news reports is supporting the FARC narco-terrorists in Colombia), the nut who runs North Korea and Iran’s Holocaust-denying dictator, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (who is supplying the terrorists in Iraq with weapons that are killing U.S. soliders). McCain said Obama’s promise to meet with such men demonstrated his "naivete and inexperience and lack of judgment.” We are having diplomatic talks with these countries at some level, but they have yielded little to nothing. There is no reason to assume that high-level talks would accomplish anything different, and there is even less reason to offer them the prestige, justification and authority of face-to-face talks with the president of the United States. It would only embolden them."
Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families
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