Sun Blogs: Borderline Inappropriate
Chamberlain Returns to Power in Britain
July 4, 2007 - 3:02am
George Santayana penned the brilliant and oft quoted cliché, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." It is a quote that is beaten into the memory banks of every young child--unless you live in England.
England is happily bearing witness to the resurgence of Chamberlain-era appeasement; a foreign policy that allowed Hitler and the fascists decimate Europe and murder millions. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Britons wised up and embraced Winston Churchill's "never surrender policy."
England today has reversed this trend, replacing Blair's struggle against terror with Brown's surrender to it. This is because the fascist threat that Britain faces today is not a politically correct one. In the wake of the failed terrorist attacks throughout Great Britain, Englishmen have praised Prime Minister Gordon Brown for being "calm about it," which is apparently preferable to "the abrasiveness of Tony Blair." No one has yet to comment on the "abrasiveness" of the Muslim doctors that planned these attacks; instead they have only lauded Brown for not referring to the plotters by their religion. Apparently, the British people should be wary of evil doctors, rather than Islamofascist terrorists.
We will see how popular Brown's "calm and unabrasive" approach to combating Islamofascist terrorism is when they actually succeed. Perhaps Britain will again embrace abrasive war-mongers like Winston Churchill and Tony Blair.
Chamberlain? Surely you jest...
Likening George Brown to Neville Chamberlain is the most historically inaccurate and inappropriate analogy I've seen yet.
Mr. McMorris' understanding of the issues of terror and extreme 'Islamic' militancy is sorely lacking, because he implicitly assumes that somehow the misguided invasion of Iraq by American and British troops had anything whatsoever to do with a response to the terrorism that gave rise to 9/11 and the more recent attacks in England. It did not. In fact it was not only an attack on someone who, whatever his faults, had nothing to do with AlQueda and its backers among the Taliban, it also cleared the way for AlQueda to gain a foothold in the heart of the Middle East which it otherwise never would have had. Our WITHDRAWAL from the region will do more to secure it from AlQueda, than anything we're accomplishing by tearing the region apart with our military presence.
Nice Try
It would seem Gordon Brown has risen above the cycle of violence and hate and chose not to appease the terrorists by giving them the reaction they crave. I cannot say the same about your column...
"Islamofacist"-- that's an interesting term I'm afraid I've never come across before. It's funny how one could possibly draw a link between crazed muslim radicals desperately clinging to the past while supressing secularism, with a group who touted irreligious rapid modernization fueled by building an evil empire as only westerners can...
There are many types of enemies in this world. Trying to confuse two of them in a desperate attempt to spread fear and hate is probably not a good idea. Luckily, you'll find this forum a bit too educated to fall for your cheap parlor tricks.
Neville Chamberlain
Britain is handling terrorism the way we should . It is not a military problem ; invading Iraq was the worst thing we could have done . It just " stirred up the ants " . Tracking terrorists and arresting them is the way to go . Find Ben Laden the same way .