Another unraveling
Editorial page columnist Bruce Ramsey in the Seattle Times:
Democrats are rebuking President Bush for saying in his speech to the Knesset, here, that to “negotiate with terrorists and radicals” is “appeasement.” The Democrats took it as a slap at Barack Obama. What bothers me is the continual reference to Hitler and his National Socialists, particularly the British and French accommodation at the Munich Conference of 1938.
What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable. He wanted the German-speaking areas of Europe under German authority. He had just annexed Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There were two more small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of Danzig and the Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech Republic. We live in an era when you do not change national borders for these sorts of reasons. But in 1938 it was different.
Shades of Marge Schott. What is the world coming to? HT: LGF
May 18th, 2008 at 9:02 am
You see, Hitler wasn’t evil, he was just misunderstood. Frustrated. If only someone had listened to his complaints, and given in to his extremely mild and perfectly understandable demands, everything would have been well.
Now Bush, on the other hand; he really IS evil. Oh, and Cheney, too. And Rove is Satan incarnate. Compared to them, Hitler just wasn’t all that bad.
Right?
May 19th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Well, in the “era” of 16 years ago, about twenty nations were created or had their borders redrawn for exactly that reason.