Bush Invokes Appeasement to Smear Democrats
15 May 2008 8:48 am by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
Will this ever end? George W. Bush, the most incompetent, bumbling, stubborn
president talking about Democrats as if we are traitors? There isn’t a political
woman or man alive who could get through the political system who could either
offer to “negotiate with terrorists”, or sell Israel down the river.
But bringing up the Hitler analogy is going some even for Bush. Then he goes one
worse. Implies that any notion that Iraq is making matters worse for our country
is appeasement, and that any notion of insisting Iraqis take over their own country is tantamount to negotiating with Hitler.
“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals,
as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all
along,” Bush said at Israel’s 60th anniversary celebration in Jerusalem.“We have heard this foolish delusion before,” Bush said in remarks
to Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. “As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland
in 1939, an American senator declared: ‘Lord, if only I could have talked
to Hitler, all of 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.”The remarks seemed to be a not-so-subtle attempt to continue to raise doubts
about Obama with Jewish Americans. Those doubts were earlier stoked by Sen.
John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee in the 2008 presidential election,
when he recently charged that Obama is the favored candidate of the terror
group Hamas… ..
There can be no doubting that Barack Obama has had trouble out of the gate
with communicating his views on just when he thinks it’s appropriate to talk
with leaders like Iran’s Ahmadinejad. He’s backed off his claim of “no
conditions”, following Hillary Clinton’s lead, even while one of his advisers tries to hide he said it in the first place. But the Democratic party
is united with the majority of Americans behind redeploying from Iraq, which
has nothing whatsoever to do with relinquishing the United States role in combating
terrorism and the rise of radicalism. However, we just think you can’t do it
with bombings and military force alone.
There is a whole untapped reservoir
of economic and social reform that Democrats believe will go a long way to moving
people who feel they have no choices away from radicalism. But it’s going to
take time and imagination, but also a different play book than Bush’s or the Republican notion that all things can be solved with force. America can’t begin this move with the continual invocation and 20th century thinking labeling
everything having to do with changing the direction of our foreign policy as
“appeasement”, with mentions of Hitler thrown in for good measure.
President Bush is not only wrong, but destructive using this type of language. Hey, but what’s new.
Are the grown ups in charge yet?
