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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (385500)	5/21/2008 1:41:20 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576893

Appeasement isnt the issue. Carter didnt appease while in office and has nothing to give away now. I too am worried about BO being a president more like JC than JFK. JFK words very telling and the left conveniently leaves off the first part about never negotiating out of fear but the right fails to understand that JFK is talking to the russians here as well. Neither side should negotiate out of fear or fear to negotiate. IF Carter had written it, he might have left off the first part. "So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate."

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (385500)	5/21/2008 3:39:36 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576893

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.