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Yeah, well another thing that the Deans and Clarkes don't realize is with all their bitching they are aiding the enemy. Stupid petty political bullshit fuels the flames that our enemies thrive off, when they see cowards like Dean and Sharpton it only makes them push harder.
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According to you.
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"Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself." --Jean Francois Revel
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Seems accurate, but i'm not sure its relevance.
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"There is another term for tolerant inaction in the face of danger: appeasement. Whether they know it or not, the Deans, Clarkes, Kerrys and all the other politicians and pundits who will find any excuse for inaction or retreat, are, functionally, appeasers. That is a rational policy -- if the enemy is appeasable. If Hitler had been content with taking Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain would be seen as a great man by history. And Churchill would have been seen as the mere warmonger he was then called. If, today, the Islamist terrorists are appeasable, then Bush is a fool. If they are not, then we should apply to America, Churchill's warning to England over 70 years ago: 'England's hour of weakness is Europe's hour of danger.' And we should be heartened by George Bush's confident strides in the inevitably bloody march to peace." --Tony Blankley
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The ww2 comparison would seem valid if and only if the terrorists start taking over countries. Besides, how is the belief that maybe there is a better way to do this the same thing as appeasement?
This tony blankeley fellow seems like a bush policy appeaser. If bush's policy doesn't turn out all right, he is a fool. Nevermind the prices we are paying, the new enemies we are making, and the new policy of preemptive action that we have set the precedent for. This guy is off base because he thinks the war on terrorism can be won. That at some point, through military action, there will be no people willing to die fighting america. I don't know the right answer, but i'm certain that until you can fight the cause of terrorism, treating the symptoms won't amount to much.