Mark Steyn: We tried appeasement once before...

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 03/23/04 | Mark Steyn

[JulieRNR21]

Nobody says it better than Steyn......BUMP

[PhilDragoo]

NEVILLE AGAIN!

And here is the paper which bears
Herr Laden's signature as well as my own.

[JohnHuang2]

Thanks for the ping, Pokey :-)

[JohnHuang2]

Mark Steyn MEGA PING!!

[American in Israel]

And yet, the Greens were okay with keeping him in power. Why? ...Because this is validation of what many, including myself, have been saying all along. Greens are absolutely NOTHING except a front for Communist ideology.

I nominate you for post of the month! Great catch!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[JohnHuang2]

Welcome :-)

[Mike Fieschko]

.... appeasement is even less effective when the faraway country of which you know little is your own.

That is how Chamberlain described Czechoslovakia, after forcing her to give the Sudentenland to Hitler: 'a far-away country' inhabited by ‘people of whom we know little’ (radio broadcast 27 Sep 1938).

[GeronL]

and once is more than enough

[GeronL]

Did you see this thread?? Harpseal died =o(

[JohnHuang2]

Amen, and G'evening to ya, amigo

[GeronL]

did you check in on the harpseal thread?

[American in Israel]

Our choice to intervene in Iraq toppled Libya, a terrorist nation that had literally tons of chemical weapons that were found after the fact.

Sometimes intervention is much cheaper in blood than waiting for the little Hitlers to get their troops inside our borders. As the current "illegal immigration" is currently estimated to be about a division a day we can choose to fight them on their soil or consent to live in a prison camp with the barbed wire on the outside of the walls, waiting for the day they come to eat our lunch having already finished our neighbors.

I prefer Americas tendency to fight its wars in their backyards instead of our own. We tried appeasement and gifts for years, until they flew the planes we built into the buildings we built to kill us for our tolerance and kindness.

Tolerate evil and evil will take the freedom to grow and dominate you.

[JohnHuang2]

I did. Very, very sad to hear this. He was a friend.

[GeronL]

He was a good poster too. Very polite.

[JohnHuang2]

Yes, he sure was. He will be sorely missed.

[Countyline]

Bravo!

Best of the best is Steyn

[victoryatallcosts]

A neighbour of mine refuses to let her boy play with "militaristic" toys. So when a friend gave the l'il tyke a plastic sword and shield, mom mulled it over and then took away the former and allowed him to keep the latter. And for a while, on my drive down to town, I'd pass Junior in the yard playing with his shield, mastering the art of cowering more effectively against unseen blows. Simply the best part of the piece.

[goldstategop]

Europe is no longer the center of civilization as it was befor the 20th Century. Today America claims the role and it drives the Eurotrash nuts. Its safe to say if Europe disappeared from history, no one would miss it. When Mark Steyn points out the obvious in his diagnosis of Europe's terminal condition, what's striking is how little the other side of the Atlantic has evolved morally since the Second World and even more so since the disappearance of Communism. Indeed, with friends like the Europeans, we Americans and our Israeli friends certainly don't need enemies.

[maica]

This point needs to be expanded upon a LOT more in the media, but of course that will never happen outside of conservative media.
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Thanks for the reminder.

I think that many or most Freepers are talk show listeners. I would encourage all to become talk show callers. Points like this one need frequent mention, and it surely won't happen in the DNC media.

There are many hours of the day in every market that airs Hannity, Savage or Limbaugh, when local talk shows are on air.

Not one of the NGOs that so grieved over what UN sanctions were doing to the Iraqi people has come out in favor of the removal of Hussein. None have mentioned that "5000 children per month" are no longer dying, or that the Marsh Arabs are getting their lands back.