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Friday, May 16, 2008

Obama's Naiveté [Updated]

President Bush Addresses Members of the Knesset
There are good and decent people who cannot fathom the darkness in these men and try to explain away their words. It's natural, but it is deadly wrong. As witnesses to evil in the past, we carry a solemn responsibility to take these words seriously. Jews and Americans have seen the consequences of disregarding the words of leaders who espouse hatred. And that is a mistake the world must not repeat in the 21st century.

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.

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Limestone Roof Translation
Liberals don't believe in absolutes, ergo evil is a value judgment which was invented by man (like fantasy or sci-fi). This fantasy extends to foreign policy- from Carter to Kennedy (Teddy) to Clinton to Pelosi to Barack Hussein Obama.

Additionally, the liberal mind, short on historical perspective (history was also invented by man) and poisoned by subjectivism, concludes that the U.S. would leave the Middle East if we didn't need oil and that we would look the other way while Ahmadinejad lobbed nuclear missiles at Israel. It's OKAY if Jerusalem is vaporized, as long as we can have domestic partnerships, universal health care and consumption taxes.

The other fantasy involves us becoming unstuck from our religion and substituting it for the State (but that's the subject of another post).

**UPDATE**

Seattle Times Editor: 'Hitler's Demands Were Not Unreasonable' (Hat Tip: Ace)

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