We Shall Not Appease
The gauntlet has been thrown down. To appease or not to appease.
ap‧pease –verb (used with object), -peased, -peas‧ing.
1. to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
2. to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage: The fruit appeased his hunger.
3. to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.
Donald Rumsfeld, as primary belligerent, has confused the issue once again.
Take a look at this link http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/07/DDGK1KT87E1.DTL
I, for one, refuse to concede or yield to the belligerent demands of a man that helped lead us into an unholy war of questionable clarity or moral certitude by relinquishing my own sense of justice and principles of peace.
I, for one, refuse to concede or yield to the belligerent, unjust and unprincipled demands of a president that continues to put us in harm's way by pitting us against a large segment of the world's population with secret prisons, calls for unjust military tribunals and a lack of clarity about how to really safeguard our way of life.
I, for one, refuse to put any trust in a Congress that has repeatedly backed misguided policies in their own vain hopes of appeasing an angry king that has turned a respected country into an imperial overlord, making it despised by huge swaths of the world.
If appeasement be the game we now need to debate, then let's debate the real merits of current states of affairs and let's see whom is appeasing whom, and which side of the truth will prevail.
ap‧pease –verb (used with object), -peased, -peas‧ing.
1. to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
2. to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage: The fruit appeased his hunger.
3. to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.
Donald Rumsfeld, as primary belligerent, has confused the issue once again.
Take a look at this link http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/07/DDGK1KT87E1.DTL
I, for one, refuse to concede or yield to the belligerent demands of a man that helped lead us into an unholy war of questionable clarity or moral certitude by relinquishing my own sense of justice and principles of peace.
I, for one, refuse to concede or yield to the belligerent, unjust and unprincipled demands of a president that continues to put us in harm's way by pitting us against a large segment of the world's population with secret prisons, calls for unjust military tribunals and a lack of clarity about how to really safeguard our way of life.
I, for one, refuse to put any trust in a Congress that has repeatedly backed misguided policies in their own vain hopes of appeasing an angry king that has turned a respected country into an imperial overlord, making it despised by huge swaths of the world.
If appeasement be the game we now need to debate, then let's debate the real merits of current states of affairs and let's see whom is appeasing whom, and which side of the truth will prevail.
posted by Paul Salinger at 8:51 AM
1 Comments:
Glad to see you haven't lost your sense of indignation at the selfishness, injustice and ineptitude exhibited by our current administration.
On the specific subject of appeasement, what boggles my miniature mind most of all is that the admininstration is more than happy to look back 70 years and draw parallels to the dangers of appeasement but can't seem to see the connection between what could happen with Iran and what has already happened with Iraq.
Pre-WWII appeasement took place in a world without nuclear weapons, and the brewing conflict was with a fellow Western European nation whose culture had far more in common with its enemies than today's conflicts with Islamist regimes of the Middle East. Doesn't it make more sense to look back five years than 70 to draw parallels in the search for wisdom about how to handle the threat posed by Iran and other Islamist theocracies?
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