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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (385500)5/21/2008 3:39:36 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1577807
 
The clues are trickling out of Obama himself. He's more likely to be a Carter than a JFK.

And yes, I view Carter as the poster child for appeasement.

I think it is important for people to remember that when we elected Carter, the most important foreign policy issue before us was nuclear proliferation. And the idealistic amongst us (including me), believed that a liberal in the White House was just the answer. Of course, four years later, we had learned just how foolish we were.

Reagan, who had been criticized for years as a war monger, within 8 short years, massively reduced the risk of a nuclear war and won the Cold War single-handedly. Today, Obama's website says he will "Set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons and pursue it". And he'll do it through weakness.

I'm sorry, but I fell for that in '76. I'm not going there again.

Appeasement, no matter what name you call it by, simply doesn't work. It rewards bad behavior while failing to reward good behavior. Anyone can see this is not sensible policy.
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