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Barry Rubin of the Gloria Center discusses the Fantasy-Based Policymaking of which so many in Washington are so very fond:
Each day we're told that radical Islamists, terrorists, and assorted extremists are going to moderate, so why not negotiate with them, appease them, defuse their grievances, have dialogue, and then everything will be okay.But, those who are doubtful, argue, shouldn't we have learned from history that militant ideologies are not prone to compromise and ruthless dictators don't change their stripes. You cannot appease them, they don't go away; displays of weakness make them more aggressive.
Oh, no! Not the Nazi analogy again!
And yet what can you say when confronted with this New York Times headline of December 21, 1924:
"Hitler Tamed By Prison; Released on Parole, He Is Expected to Return to Austria."
[This is not a satire. See for yourself at: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70A17F73F5B12738DDDA80A94DA415B848EF1D3&scp=1&sq=Hitler+tamed+by+prison+article&st=p]
The correspondent explains that Hitler, once a demigod for the extreme right, was released on parole from the Landsberg fortress where he had been sent for trying to overthrow the democratic German government in what has come to be known as the Beerhouse Putsch.
Prison, the article continues, seems to have moderated him. The authorities were convinced that he presented no further danger to the existing society. In fact, it was expected that he would abandon public life and return to his native land, Austria.
Well, that problem was certainly solved easily.
And also the Times learned its lesson, hasn't it?
As the newspaper explained in a June 30 editorial:
"Few countries can afford the luxury of limiting their diplomacy to friendly countries and peace-loving parties. National security often requires negotiating with dangerous enemies."
Right. And believing their protestations of moderation, making concessions to them, ending sanctions, blaming ourselves for problems, and never using force is the actual content of such negotiations.
Then the leaders of Hamas, Hizballah, Syria, Iran, the Muslim Brotherhoods, al-Qaida, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Sudan, etc., will no doubt be tamed, abandon public life, and go back to their homes.
Henry Kissinger once told the joke--or at least is credited for doing so--that it is very easy to have the lion lay down with the lamb, as long as you put in a new lamb every day. Kissinger no doubt little expected at the time that this would become the democratic world's favored strategy. No surprise that the main villain for the politically correct West is Israel, the lamb that refuses the honor.
Posted by Robert at July 3, 2008 8:27 AM
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Wow. The NYT was stupid as far back as 1924?
Yeah, I'm glad Hitler was "tamed" and returned to Austria to lead a quiet, retiring life.
I enjoyed Kissinger's realistic appraisal of an enemy. Refreshing to see reality concerning enemies rather than delusions and fantasy.
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at July 3, 2008 8:43 AM
The tiger will not change its stripes.
Scratch a Guantanamo returnee and one finds another toxic jihadi killer who completes his mission in life.
Whereas our mission should be to see him dead, withour benefit of a Kennedy majority Supreme Court decision.
Our own Supreme Court majority in this recent case of granting domestic rights to Gitmoees is drinking the Kool Aid.
Take heart jihadis - those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.
A whole Western party with wrong headed liberal idiots making up their base.
Posted by: dgene at July 3, 2008 9:03 AM
An observation:
"In this war we bring to battle our stealth aircraft, and the enemy brings to battle their stealth soldiers".
Posted by: Mackie at July 3, 2008 9:48 AM
And Democrats still believe Saddam was "contained". Fortunately (or unfortunately), we'll never have to learn what might have happened with a rehabilitated Saddam selling oil and building weapons and financing terrorism to his heart's content.
Posted by: PMK at July 3, 2008 11:13 AM
Of course, following his release from Landsberg Prison, Herr Hitler published his biographical-political manifesto, Mein Kampf--My Struggle, or, if you will, My Jihad.
Posted by: John C at July 3, 2008 11:39 AM
--An all-time best seller in Dar al-Islam, the Muslim world.
Posted by: John C at July 3, 2008 11:44 AM
Herr Hitler's legacy may prove to be incitement to a Second Holocaust.
Posted by: John C at July 3, 2008 11:47 AM
--And a Third World War. Yeah, what an influential, pragmatic Statesman he was.
Posted by: John C at July 3, 2008 11:50 AM
The NYT peddling well documented opinion a lot longer than I thought. For some strange reason there seems to be a huge divide between thinking and knowing.
Posted by: flowerknife_us at July 3, 2008 3:26 PM
The UK has just released a couple of high ranking Islamic douchebags who, no doubt, will soon be back in the news.
The US has released Islamic douchebags from Gitmo and then discovered they returned to the battlefield against the US.
Some European countries have released Islamic douchebags with well known ties to terrorist groups..
who knows which of these formerly imprisoned Islamic douchebags will be responsible for massive infidel deaths..just look at all the Ayatollahs and then read their biographies and discover almost all of them have been imprisoned at one time or another..
When they are locked up..throw away the key.
at July 3, 2008 6:06 PM
A douchebag is, as a douchebag does--or stupid is as stupid does.
Having done years of prison ministry, I have witnessed scores of inmates who can act normal for the officals but are seething, hate filled dangers that have rehearsed their revenge for years and years, plotting all along for the day they are finally released. Non caring about their future they await the moment that the devils within can escape to do in seconds what they had meditated on for years.
Posted by: guide inside at July 4, 2008 2:26 AM
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