Rumsfeld Warns Against Appeasement
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 by RLRFrom Yahoo News
By Robert Burns
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday the world faces “a new type of fascism” and warned against repeating the pre-World War II mistake of appeasement. Rumsfeld alluded to critics of the Bush administration’s war policies in terms associated with the failure to stop Nazism in the 1930s, “a time when a certain amount of cynicism and moral confusion set in among the Western democracies.”
Without explicitly citing Bush critics at home or abroad, he said “it is apparent that many have still not learned history’s lessons.” Aides to Rumsfeld said later he was not accusing the administration’s critics of trying to appease the terrorists but was cautioning against a repeat of errors made in earlier eras.
Speaking to several thousand veterans at the American Legion’s national convention, Rumsfeld said that as fascism and Nazism took hold in Europe, those who warned of a coming crisis were ridiculed or ignored. He quoted Winston Churchill as observing that trying to accommodate Hitler was “a bit like feeding a crocodile, hoping it would eat you last.”
“I recount this history because once again we face similar challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism,” he said. “Can we truly afford to believe that somehow, some way, vicious extremists can be appeased?” he asked.
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Please dear americans, do something to these lunatics. OBL = Hitler? bah. What a fear mongering chickenhawk.
Truly frightening. The only thing more frightening is the fact that some people will buy into this crap
and if not buy into it atleast ignore it and move on to more pressing celebrity news.
Yeah RLR,fargheddabout Iraq, why havn’t the American people been told what the Ramsey kid ate for her last breakfast? This thing ain’t done yet.