Posted on 08/17/2017 12:34:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
FP: ...One of your special expertises is on how leftists, and some of our European allies, have chosen to side with our enemy. Now, after the Madrid terror attack, we see another European ally succumb to appeasement....
Hanson: Well, even before the terrorists' communiques were fully disseminated the Spanish electorate voted for appeasement and a socialist government that would distance itself from the United States. This is the most profound example of capitulation since Daladier and Chamberlain and sets a truly awful example...
Worse, this was not panic from a fickle leader but an overwhelming expression of public fear and intimidation. I am afraid it confirms what most of us have thought for some time about the Europeans: they want our bases and troops, but only in the shadows and with avenues of distance and denial, as a last guarantee only of their safety in extremis....
As for Spain-and I say this with real remorse given their suffering and national catastrophe-not since Theodosius and the late Romans paid their annual bribe money to Attila have we seen such success in bullying and terrifying a Western nation. It is right off the pages of Gibbon in his discussion of how weak, wealthy, and fearful Westerners paid Goths and Huns before Adrianople and Chalons. And this is the beginning not the end of it, as we shall soon see.
All Americans feel terrible about the Spanish mass murder, but how can we express our solidarity when the reaction is to repudiate both us and Spaniards who were allied with us? And contrast the American example: 26 days after 9-11 we were in Afghanistan attacking the Taliban and al Qaeda; the Spaniards in 48 hours were turning out to apologize. A sad day for the West.
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Now look were that got them.
The Muslims only understand defeat. Everything else is conquest.
Time to tear down all moorish arches in Spain....
Appeasement works so well, eh? Just let them come to your country and set up enclaves, build mosques, take driving lessons,, and waa laaa.. whaddaya got? EUrabians on the run,, from renegade drivers.. imported by the leaders of their countries becuz life just isn’t fair for some and they neeeeed a hellllping hand..
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