tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post6097425160026992143..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Funny Incurious George Should Criticize AppeasersThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-9210874514809192422008-05-16T09:34:00.000-07:002008-05-16T09:34:00.000-07:00No, I wasn't watching Hardball. I don't see much A...No, I wasn't watching Hardball. I don't see much American TV, but I just did. Thanks for that. It was hilarious.Jim Terralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03478822461570455285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-55117316037164297492008-05-16T08:45:00.000-07:002008-05-16T08:45:00.000-07:00Jim, were you watching Hardball?There was plenty o...Jim, were you watching Hardball?<BR/><BR/>There was plenty of Congressional capitulation during the Bush years. Often on a "take it or leave it" basis with very little of what anyone could call negotiation. When they ought to have stood up to Bush they - Republican and Democrat - buckled under lest they be branded unpatriotic or weak on terrorism. That's the political form of coercion that results in capitulation, appeasement.<BR/><BR/>You're right LD. No one, neither Obama nor "bomb'em into the stone age" Clinton has suggested giving in to these nations. Actually, if you revisit the North Korean situation, Bush yielded a couple of times when he found he'd painted himself into a corner.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-73454702895789242352008-05-16T08:09:00.000-07:002008-05-16T08:09:00.000-07:00I thought appeasement meant to give in. No democra...I thought appeasement meant to give in. No democrats said that they would give in to Iran, Iraq or North Korea. Bush and McCain were hallucinating as usual.LeDarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12526776746689708239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-61776452459750427722008-05-16T07:03:00.000-07:002008-05-16T07:03:00.000-07:00Of course, you are talking about real appeasement ...Of course, you are talking about real appeasement which is done <I>without</I> negotiation. The appeasers are capitulationists. No one who has ever been engaged in serious negotiations would confuse negotiation with appeasement. Appeasement is just one possible outcome of negotiations.Jim Terralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03478822461570455285noreply@blogger.com