If the shoe fits, Mr. Obama…wear it!
During his visit to Israel two weeks ago where he participated in that countries 60-year anniversary celebrations, President George W. Bush gave a speech to Israel’s Knesset, the legislative branch of that country. His speech was well received by those in attendance and moved some people to tears. The President re-assured the Israelis that America will stand by its side against all their enemies as it has done in the past. Near the middle of his speech, President Bush spoke about the terrorists and radicals who use Islam as a mantle for their goals and actions and then he became somewhat specific about the President (Mahmoud Ahmadenijad) of Iran who ‘dreams of returning the Middle East to the Middle-Ages and calls for Israel to be wiped off the map.’
Bush continued and we quote “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.”
It did not take more than a few hours and the media in America went ballistic and also the Democrat front-runner candidate Barack Obama and several other Democrat politicians. They questioned the President’s motives for making this kind of statement and accused him of politicizing foreign policy and launching a false political attack against Obama.
Now, let’s look at the facts and analyze this:
- America has classified Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organization and also called Iran and Syria countries sponsoring and supporting terrorists,
- Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi visited a few months ago Syria and met with their President Al-Assad to conduct some foreign policy of her own against the advise of the State Department and she accomplished nothing,
- Former President Jimmy Carter recently visited with the leaders of Hamas against the advise of the State Department and achieved absolutely nothing,
- Democrat candidate Barack Obama has several times declared that he as President would meet with the leaders of Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Venezuela without preconditions,
- President Bush did not mention anybody by name in his speech in Israel, not Pelosi, Carter or Obama.
We have to ask now: Based on the facts above, does the President not have reason to make these statements and a perfect right to do so? We say: Yes, he does because it is based on facts! His words hit an obvious sore spot with these folks and especially Barack Obama but we say to them: If the shoe fits…wear it! Hanging in many classrooms throughout America are signs reading: You are responsible for your actions. Can anybody explain why it is perfectly all right for the likes of Pelosi and Carter to visit with foreign leaders and terrorists who are telling their people to shout ‘Death to America’ at every opportunity and even undercut (maybe even sabotage) the President’s role in representing this country? Why is it wrong to address certain statements that Senator Obama has made on foreign policy matters and for that matter question the wisdom of it? At the same time, it is perfectly correct for the media and Democrats to refer to President Bush’s foreign policy as ‘cowboy diplomacy’.
We here at Common Sense Politics strongly believe that these things should not be one-sided and once again, it shows the bias of the majority of the media membership in favor of the liberals in general and the Democrats in particular. We realize that the word ‘appeasement’ must feel like a dagger in the heart of liberals as it reflects a certain weakness on their part when it comes to security and protection of America. We also know that it hurts when one is confronted with facts.
And one more thing for purposes of truth and accuracy, the U.S. Senator, President Bush quoted in his speech was a Republican from Idaho. Yes, these words were said by Senator William Edgar Borah in September 1939 after Hitler’s armies invaded Poland. His quote has been used plenty of times by various people when citing it as evidence of alleged naïveté of attempts to negotiate with one’s enemies. So then, President Bush quotes a Republican Senator and the Democrats go crazy in response. All we can conclude from that is that the ‘Shoe must fit!’
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