What Bush could have said about FLDS and Appeasement with Texas

May 15, 2008 10:13

Americans are careful not to apply what they say to themselves because the conclusions about the action required would be too severe.

George Bush's speech in Israel should be applied to Texas. He said "Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along."

"We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is –- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

The favorite betrayal of the pastors is that we are a nation of laws and that force cannot be justified against the government when there is a political and legal recourse. Bush disagrees and advocates force against governments who cross the line, such as Texas.

His conclusions are: We should not negotiate in court or anywhere else as if arguments could persuade them that they have been wrong. It is delusional to believe that talking to Gov. Perry while the tanks were rolling in Eldorado, that all this could have been avoided.

We have an obligation to call it what it is -- the false peace of appeasement, just as Bush said, and "which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

He should have made that speech in Texas.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/obama-takes-iss.html