Thursday, February 5, 2015

The Roots of Obama’s Appeasement

"The president’s disastrous foreign policy is as much a product of his own vanity as anything else."

Victor Davis Hanson
Photo via NRO

"Members of the Obama administration have insisted that the Taliban are not terrorists. Those responsible for the recent Paris killings are not radical Islamists. The Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular. Jihad is a “legitimate tenet of Islam.” And “violent extremism,” “workplace violence,” or “man-caused disaster” better describe radical Islamic terrorism. Domestic terrorism is just as likely caused by returning U.S. combat veterans, according to one report by a federal agency.
"What is the point of such linguistic appeasement?
"The word “appeasement” long ago became pejorative for giving in to bullies. One side was aggressive and undemocratic; the other consensual and eager to avoid trouble through supposedly reasonable concessions.
"But appeasement usually weakened the democratic side and empowered the extremist one." . . .
We've seen all this before:

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