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This is an excellent perspective on solving the world's problems by appeasement. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.....


HERE IS A GERMAN EDITORIAL





If any of you still feel that this war on terror is a mistake, here is
an opinion from an unexpected source. It's fascinating that this should
come out of Europe. Mathias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the huge German
publisher Axel Springer AG, has written a blistering attack in DIE WELT,
Germany's largest daily paper, against the timid reaction of Europe in the
face of the Islamic threat.This is a must-read by all Americans. History
may well certify its correctness. EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE
(Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG) A few days ago
Henry Broder wrote in Welt am Sonntag, "Europe - your family name is
appeasement." It's a phrase you can't get out of your head because it's so
terribly true.Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives,
as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too
long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to
toothless agreements.Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in
the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe,
where for decades, inhuman suppressive, murderous governments were
glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other
possibilities.Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in
Kosovo, and even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we
Europeans debated and debated and debated, and were still debating when
finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into
Europe yet again, and do our work for us.Rather than protecting democracy
in the Middle East, European Appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word
"equidistance," now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by
fundamentalist Palestinians.Appeasement generates a mentality that allows
Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder
machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace movement,
has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush... Even as it is uncovered
that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit
billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt U.N. Oil-for-Food
program.And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of
appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic
Fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really
should have a "Muslim Holiday" in Germany?I wish I were joking, but I am
not. A substantial fraction of our (German) Government, and if the polls
are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating an
Official State "Muslim Holiday" will somehow spare us from the wrath of the
fanatical Islamists. One cannot help but recall Britain's Neville
Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph Hitler and
declaring European "Peace in our time".What else has to happen before the
European public and its political leadership get it?

[Grimalkin]

So there's a german editorial criticising the rest of Europe for not standing up enough to Hitler???