Posted by
Pscyclone on Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:47:21 AM
Hook, line, and sinker; that’s just how far the West has been taken in by Iranian President Ahmadinejad. He is one of the world’s foremost terrorists, in a “recognized” position of power to boot, and yet, today, he is being lauded as the fellow who ended the hostage crisis he started with the U.K. From now on – you can almost feel the liberals and terrified warming up their arguments – from now on appeasement will be the order of the day. Never again will we be able to face down terrorism as the evil that it is; never again will we be able to deal with terrorists in the only manner they understand. Be ready for it - liberals and the terrified will insist we talk. It took the West only seventy years to forget appeasement is nothing more than fearful acquiescence and the UK, as a proxy for the West, has shown our unwillingness to stand against naked aggression and terrorism. The irony here is that it was the UK who taught us the fruits of appeasement in 1938 (Munich Agreement / Dictate / Betrayal, anyone?)
Don’t get me wrong – I am thankful that the fifteen British sailors have returned home safely and alive. Their lives and families will be changed forever by the thirteen harrowing days as hostages of a violent, terrorist regime, but they will have their lives to live. This blessing notwithstanding, those fifteen have become unwitting and unwilling pawns in all debates about the War on Terror. They will forever be heralded as tangible, irrefutable evidence that appeasement works, nevermind the overwhelming examples where it doesn't. Terrorists will swarm over the world like the Martians in Mars Attacks! shouting "we come in peace" as they blow up our children and kidnap our futures. Adding to this insult will be the liberals and terrified within our own societies chiding those of us who still remember the perils of appeasement by revering these fifteen as their holy grail. It's a brave new world, after all.
I’m not really surprised. Recently, teachers in the U.K. have dropped curriculum discussing the holocaust and Crusades, essentially rewriting history by omission. Perhaps the U.S. should follow suit and just stop teaching our children about slavery (we might offend someone with the lessons from that era), Vietnam (we might offend someone from that region), the 1979 -1981 hostage crisis (we’ll just deny that first salvo in the War on Terror – it didn’t happen – and ignore the experiences of the still-living hostages -- that is, guests -- as petulant ingratitude towards their Iranian hosts), and just about every moment of the Clinton administration (we might remind people that the liberals and the terrified want to shred the Constitution and deny Americans our rights and liberties). Really, we don’t need to learn these historical lessons since history never repeats itself.
Make no mistake; it’s good that the British hostages are home now, safe from harm with stories to tell. But let’s also call a spade what it is; Iran has outmaneuvered the West and shown itself to be fearless, flaunting, and in this case, powerful enough to convince the West appeasement is the best and only option in the face of terrorism.
It’s good to be the king. Today, and for the foreseeable future, the crown belongs to President Ahmadinejad.