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Obama Appeases While Netanyahu Shows a Gleam of Steel
Frontpagemag.com ^ | March 24, 2015 | Bruce Thornton

Posted on 03/24/2015 6:22:38 AM PDT by Biggirl

After the 1938 Munich conference, First Lord of the Admiralty Duff Cooper resigned in protest from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s cabinet. In his speech before the Commons, Cooper put his finger on the cause of Chamberlain’s failure: “The Prime Minister has believed in addressing Herr Hitler through the language of sweet reasonableness. I have believed that he was more open to the language of the mailed fist.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chamberlain; netanyahu; obama

1 posted on 03/24/2015 6:22:38 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

If one were to compare mettles between Obama and Bibi, Obama could best be described as pewter (pot metal).

It’s cheap, brittle (bristling for him, usually has to be forged into some shape somebody else determines and leaves a stain on anything it comes in contact with.


2 posted on 03/24/2015 6:30:28 AM PDT by Gaffer
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