Posted on 04/16/2010 9:25:33 PM PDT by JLS
In years to come – assuming, for the purposes of argument, there are any years to come – scholars will look back at President Barack Obama's Nuclear Security Summit and marvel. For once, the cheap comparisons with 1930s appeasement barely suffice: To be sure, in 1933, the great powers were meeting in Geneva and holding utopian arms-control talks even as Hitler was taking office in Berlin. But it's difficult to imagine Neville Chamberlain in 1938 hosting a conference on the dangers of rearmament, and inviting America, France, Brazil, Liberia and Thailand ...but not even mentioning Germany.
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Steyn ping opportunity.
As usal, Mark nails it right on.
Great piece, but get a load of the “It’s the Jews!” comment on the site. There’s one in every bucnh!
Obama is really sick.
The Left has had a long fight against America's military. Much of it has been fomented by Communist agents and their sympathizers who want to see American Capitalism to go down in flames. Those so duped by the propaganda see the nation's economy as an end sum game where the economic pie is limited and when one takes more from one part of the pie, it takes more pie from the other. The Left wants more of the pie to go towards government programs that gives them government jobs and gives more to the poor. That is the “butter” part of the end sum game formula. When you explain that the “guns” part of the pie (20%) is not that much, the foam in the leftist mouth begins to froth. Twenty percent is too much and they will cry that it is actually more than 20%. To them it's butter from the mouths of have nots. To us, it's a small price for our freedom.
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