Appeasement: Twenty-First Century Style
I'm trying--really I am--to understand why today's antiwar groups insist on ignoring pre-WWII parallels and insist we take Jimmie Carter's advice and talk to Iran about their threats to western civilization.

They Can't Have it Both Ways
As Japan was preparing to bomb our Quonset huts and Pacific fleet into oblivion their people were also deep in discussion with President Roosevelt. In fact, if memory serves, the last conversation the Japanese ambassadors held with the U.S. was approximately one day before their attack.

Talking seemed to be the right course for Roosevelt. It placated his socialist, antiwar friends and showed America was taking the high road. Unfortunately, those meetings were nothing more than window dressing, which disguised despicable events to come.

While we were talking, the Japanese fleet contemplated whether to use torpedoes or bombs. In that case, words meant nothing. Roosevelt knew it; the Japanese knew it. War-weary Americans didn't want to know it. Roosevelt did his level best to shake the complacency of his countrymen. As usual, just as the corner that needs a stoplight, some kid has to get run over first before one is installed.

Hard as it is to comprehend, the Dems have now brought up Reagan's ability to talk us through the end of the cold war, pronouncing not a shot was fired in the meantime.

Of course what they don't understand is the fact that President Reagan's "conversation" was reinforced with a bunch of Pershing missiles sitting in Germany, aimed directly at Moscow.

If the Dems would step into their Go Back machine, they'd have to listen to their own words in this regard, i.e., yes, but the USSR was on its way out anyway. As I said, they can't have it both ways.

That Offensive I-Word
Leave it to the Dems to be put off by reality and truth. Islamofacists is a buzzword made up by Neocons, they say. How dare they scare the American public by comparing Uncle Dolfie and his Nazi regime with Ahmadinejad and Iran's theocratic thugs?

The Iranians have gone on record to explain in great demonstrative detail they will do away with non-Islamic folks (jihad) at home and abroad, destroy Israel as a people and a country, all the time insisting upon furthering their nuclear ambitions.

And we must open a dialogue with them?

We need to be scared into understanding there are people who, if given the opportunity, will destroy America. Think it can't happen? Great countries come and go. America is not exempt from history's breathtaking parallels of a complacent, naive citizenry who refuse to face reality. Words, in the face of annihilation, mean absolutely nothing.

Thanks for the read.

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