Comments on: Appeasement as World War Looms http://drywind.net/blog/politics-war-economics/appeasement-as-world-war-looms/54/ Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:48:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: N8 http://drywind.net/blog/politics-war-economics/appeasement-as-world-war-looms/54/comment-page-1/#comment-8 N8 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:09:12 +0000 http://drywindhome.net/blog/?p=54#comment-8 Don’t people understand that anytime someone takes a trip to Cuba, Viet Nam, Syria, Libya or any number of non-democratic countries, they may be being handled by government agents to see and experience whatever perspective the government wants to project? It’s just stupid to come back and think that what was experienced or was said was representative of real life. The idea that Syria and Iran can be instrumental in stabilizing Iraq is laughable – those countries are largely the cause of the instability. They are directly complicit in Lebanon/Gaza. I don’t know how much more obvious that could be. But it doesn’t seem possible to underestimate the intelligence inherent in the accepted wisdom of appeasement. Don’t people understand that anytime someone takes a trip to Cuba, Viet Nam, Syria, Libya or any number of non-democratic countries, they may be being handled by government agents to see and experience whatever perspective the government wants to project? It’s just stupid to come back and think that what was experienced or was said was representative of real life.

The idea that Syria and Iran can be instrumental in stabilizing Iraq is laughable – those countries are largely the cause of the instability. They are directly complicit in Lebanon/Gaza. I don’t know how much more obvious that could be. But it doesn’t seem possible to underestimate the intelligence inherent in the accepted wisdom of appeasement.

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