When You Appease Tyrants, They Just Hate You Even More
To Fidel Castro, the bright-eyed, telegenic Elián González was a “traitor” who could become a symbol of freedom for both the exiles in Miami and the people of Havana, and who could therefore damage Castro’s image at home and abroad. Therefore, soon after Elián was found floating around the ocean in an inner tube, Castro assembled 300,000 Cubans on Havana’s streets to protest the “kidnapping” of Elian by the United States. Then Castro tried to lure Elián back — as Ceausescu had tried on me, after I had escaped from Romania. Elián’s two Cuban grandmothers were dispatched to the United States, bringing photo albums with pictures of Elián’s relatives, schoolmates, home, dog, parrot, and empty school desk “waiting for you to return.” Cuba supplied the grandmothers with new clothes and travel expenses. They were, of course, accompanied by Cuban handlers, who managed their every move in the United States.
Elián himself did not fall for Castro’s tricks. Unfortunately, President Clinton and his attorney general, Janet Reno, did swallow the bait, and the boy went back to Cuba. It was not long before Russia’s Pravda began crowing: “It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.”[2]
Elián González became an international symbol of freedom. Today the Miami house where he lived as a free child is a popular museum, where visitors can see a popular shrine to the boy — who is now a 19-yer-old prisoner on a starving Communist island. Elián’s school uniform still hangs in the Miami closet, along with dozens of outfits that he never got a chance to wear. A giant image of the Associated Press photo showing an American federal agent pointing an automatic weapon toward Elián, who had been hiding in a bedroom closet, is also on display.[3]
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According to international law, our embassies are part of the United States, and an armed attack on any U.S. embassy is considered an act of war against the U.S. So far, every indication is that the armed attack on our consulate in Benghazi was planned and carried out by terrorists. If this proves to be true, then the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens was indeed an act of war against the U.S.
A Libyan security guard at the consulate, who was seriously injured during that so-called “spontaneous” attack but survived, has testified that “there wasn’t a single ant outside” until 9:35 p.m., when as many as 125 armed men descended on the compound from all directions. The men lobbed grenades into the compound, shouting “God is great.” They wounded the guard, and then moved to the villas that make up the consulate compound.
For his part, the interim president of Libya, Mohamed el-Megarif, stated that the terrorists had chosen a “specific date” for this attack, and that “foreigners” took part in it.
Our ambassador to Libya was indeed murdered on September 11, 2012, the day when the United States was mourning the death of some three thousand Americans who had also been killed by Islamic terrorists. That day also happened to be the very day the Kremlin was celebrating a significant anniversary — 125 years since the birth of Feliks Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the KGB, now rechristened as FSB.
Was the Kremlin involved in the assassination of our ambassador in Libya? We do not know yet. But we do know that the ambassador was killed with Russian weapons and ammunition. We also know that the Kremlin and its intelligence organizations have a penchant for symbolism, a weapon of the emotions successfully wielded by all Russian tsars and their Communist successors.
Your headline is wrong, incorrect even. When you appease tyrants, they despize you further.
The crocodile will eat you first, last and in between, just as long as he is nearby to lunge for your body parts. Westerners are incapable of understanding the Islamic mindset, and herein lies their weakness. Islamists intuit said weaknesses, and prey on them like vultures.
Moreover, one really has to live among these third world beasts to understand their mindset, or at the very least study their methods. If one fails to learn their lessons then disaster will surely occur. Why? Leftists are natural appeasers, and many have the same goals as Islamists. Therefore, those who truly believe in freedom and liberty haven’t a prayer to beat them back without their own arsenals.
The following are some said lessons…learn them well!! http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/09/23/when-is-it-honorable-to-lie-and-under-whose-cultural-system-further-exposing-the-clash-of-civilizations-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
When correcting someone…it’s always wise to spell ‘despise’ correctly.
Spelling is all confused here in Canada :^)
I am perfectly fine with giving all manner of Hell, even more than you did, to the State Department and Carter and Obama, but what about Bush and especially what about our generals? Why leave them out?
In service of fairness I will not leave Bush and our Generals out.
I don’t have your credentials but I agree with you 100%. Our leadersship, both military and civilian have compromied our security, and I suspect they have an agenda. I have commented on this point for years, and I must say I have no evidence, but by observation of their behaviour as reported, there could be no other explanation
The last general to actually speak his mind (or at least permit his staffers to speak theirs) got canned courtesy of Rolling Stone magazine.
Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is also an occasion to remember that Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion. Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. It’s a faith that has made brothers and sisters of every race. It’s a faith based upon love, not hate. Mohammad’s word has guided billions of believers across the centuries, and those believers built a culture of learning and literature and science. All the world continues to benefit from this faith and its achievements. The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qur’an. It teaches the value and the importance of charity, mercy, and peace.
George W. Bush !!!
Yours is a false religion, empty of hope because it does not address the fallen state of man, and ridicules mankind’s only hope for redemption through Christ Jesus. He came to be offered as the perfect sacrifice, as an atonement for sin, so that God’s holy justice is satisfied and that man may have a path away from God’s wrath.
For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever shall believe in Him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16). Repent of your empty religon and the false teachings of your Koran, and believe in Jesus and his work on the cross. It is by no work of man that he is saved, only through faith in Jesus Christ.
Hello?!?!? Can you people read?!?! FeralCat signed it as George W. Bush!!! Those are George W. Bush’s words about Islam, not FeralCat’s!! It is proof appeasement infects the Republicans as well.
No, it means that George W. Bush actually knew the difference between Muslims and Islamists.
AMEN!!!!
The man could not be this stupid. I think hes loyalty was compromised by his Oilman’s connection,s with Saudi corrupters. The same Saudis who bought and sold our politicians and military leaders for the last 60 years. I would like to be wrong.
In Michael Moore’s movie Fahrenheit 911, he explored the ties between the Saudis and the Bush family.
The movie was a propaganda hit piece, but I’ve always said that Moore could have done the country a real service by detailing Saudi influence on political figures of both parties, as well as academia and the media.
If we want Mideast oil to no longer influence our political and economic decisions, then the answer becomes intuitively obvious to even the most casual of observers.
The only sticking point is when you try to convince the Left that it’s in our best interests to look closer to home for our fossil fuel requirements.
Human sacrifice 21st Century American style.
It would seem the Aztec High Priests of the 15th century have been reincarnated and are now in full reign at the building some still call the Pentagon.
America’s Generals are now very much like the Aztec High Priests of many centuries ago. The main difference, and it’s a relatively small one, is that instead of continually sacrificing what they regarded as their excess and disposable human property to the Sun God to try to gain benevolence and avoid wrath, America’s Generals keep trying to sacrifice America’s Constitution, and do sacrifice more and more of the lives and limbs of America’s troops, whom they regard as their excess and disposable human property, as well as hundreds of billions of dollars of America’s rapidly shrinking treasure, which although itself is of much lesser importance is still no small matter, to the gods they reverently call “The Prophet Mohammad”, “The Holy Qur’an” and “The Noble People Of Afghanistan and their Noble Muslim Culture” to try to gain benevolence and avoid wrath, and maybe even get an extra star and another few assorted colorful baubles for which to adorn themselves.
Is our military fighting for anything most Americans would regard as at all decent in Afghanistan? Certainly not our Army, nor our Marines. America’s Generals have repeatedly ordered them to respect the gods they call “The Prophet Mohammad”, “The Holy Qur’an” and “The Noble People Of Afghanistan and their Noble Muslim Culture” and if American troops get shot to death by what their Generals call their Partners in Peace, then the Generals conclude that America’s derelict and sacrilegious troops must not have respected the gods they call “The Prophet Mohammad”, “The Holy Qur’an” and “The Noble People Of Afghanistan and their Noble Muslim Culture” nearly enough and order them to take still more religious and cultural “sensitivity” training so they can better respect the Noble Muslim Culture of the Noble People of Afghanistan, maybe even enough where they can start joining in the practicing of that Noble Muslim Culture themselves, which would no doubt delight the Generals to no end.
There of course is never any “sensitivity” training ever even recommended for what America’s Generals call “The Noble People Of Afghanistan” so they might better understand and appreciate Western and American culture. But then as America’s Generals clearly must regard the Noble Muslim Culture of the Noble People of Afghanistan as being far superior to Western and American culture, they would surely regard any such thing as, well, absolutely unthinkable, and blasphemous, and upon hearing any such suggestion would no doubt order even more “sensitivity” training.
* Mainstream Noble People of Afghanistan Muslim Culture includes child rape of both young girls and young boys, torturing dogs including puppies, total enslavement of women, stoning women to death for being raped, and death to apostates, which itself covers a whole lot, just to very briefly mention a few of the highlights.
“When You Appease Tyrants, They Just Hate You Even More”
Headline also applies to the tyrant named Obama.
Absolutely.
The tyrant in the White House can drone you! Let the buyer beware.
I believe that you meant to say, “Our Ambassador to Libya was murdered…”, in the seventh to last paragraph.
Not “Our ambassador to Iraq was murdered…”
“When You Appease Tyrants, They Just Hate You Even More”
Mmmmm, no, I don’t think that’s quite it. It’s not a matter of “hate,” it’s a matter of power-lust. Autocrats and dictators, like Imadiddyjob, Chavez, and so forth, are not motivated by hatred. They are motivated by ambition. They may be totally into hate, and the infliction of pain on a massive scale, but that is not what impels them. It is the insatiable urge for personal POWER that drives tyrants. Right and wrong; good and bad, has nothing to do with it. Tyrants don’t hate. They hunger.
Or, in the words of the movie character, Hannibal Lecter, he “covets” — and what does he covet …? Cultural revenge? Probably not. Religious justice? I doubt it. Something that he would very much like to possess or control? Oh yeah.
No, I agree with the author. What tyrants feel toward appeasers is complete contempt… hatred for the weak.
Who knew that Mr Pacepa was such a racist.
Obviously, his article is a thinly veiled racist attack on the first black president, a man who deserves to enjoy his frequest lavish holidays rather then be pestered with trivial criticisms about the deaths of ambassadors, which was totally Bushhitlers fault anyway.
Weo, you are wacko. It’s always someone else’s fault the Democrats fail or implement injustice on the American people by making them more dependent on government to live. Republicans are to be included in that group but not all. Your mantra is Bush made me do it. Because someone is against President Obama doesn’t automatically make them a racist you idiot!
We was being extremely sarcastic.
Oops, typo.
WEO was being sarcastic.
If I had my choice I would kill every Mohammedan in the world, but I am sure we would be getting complaints from Hell before breakfast.
And Rachel Madcow and Matt Demon.
I really liked him in the Bourn series, I wish he would have kept his mouth shut, because I can’t watch him now without smirking.
Apparently the directors/writers/etc have corrected that little problem with the latest Bourne episode (which I have yet to see.) I feel the same as you about Damon though. My smirk is brought on by recalling a seen in the movie (er, puppet show?) Team America where Kim Jong Il says his name “Maaaat DAAaamon?”. If you haven’t seen it, make sure to get the unedited/R version. The gratuitous sex scene (yes, with marionette puppets) is hilarious! Had me it tears.
-Roket
Caroline Glick -
Both the actions of the Egyptian prosecution and Qaradawi’s sermon prove incontrovertibly that the two policies the US has adopted since Sept. 11, 2001 to contend with Muslim hatred for the US have failed. The neoconservative policy of supporting the democratization of Muslim societies adopted by President Barack Obama’s predecessor George W. Bush has failed. And the appeasement policy adopted by Obama has also failed.
“So, hurry, hurry, O Muslim youth in America and Europe, and teach those filthy lowly ones a lesson that all the monkeys and pigs in America and Europe will understand. May Allah guide you and grant you success.” These are the voices of democratic Egypt. The government, which has indicted American citizens on capital charges for exercising their most fundamental right as Americans, is a loyal representative of the sentiments of the Egyptian people who freely elected it. The Salafist preacher is a loyal representative of the segment of the Egyptian people that made the Salafist party the second largest party in the Egyptian parliament. Qaradawi’s call for the abolition of freedom of speech in America — as has happened in Europe — to ban all criticism of Islam is subscribed to by millions and millions of Muslims worldwide who consider him one of the leading Sunni Muslim clerics in the world. Free elections in Egypt have empowered the Egyptian people to use the organs of governance to advance their hatred of America. Their hatred has been empowered, and legitimized, not diminished, as the neoconservatives had hoped.
There is a difference between appeasing parties who have been harmed by your actions and appeasing parties who wish your destruction. In the 1970s the US appeased the Philippines by transferring sovereignty over the Clark Air Force Base to the Philippine government. America was still America and the US and the Philippines became friends. To appease a party that hates your way of life, you must change your way of life. The only way America can appease the Muslim world is for America to cease to be America.”
http://jewishworldreview,com/0912/glick092112.php3
PM: Please put back in large print option.
Most popular browsers already offer ways to enlarge the text size of the page you are viewing. For instance, in Firefox, hold down the control key (usually marked CTRL) with one finger and, while holding it down, press and release the “+” key with another finger and your text will get somehat bigger. Just keep hitting the “+” key until it is as big as you want. If it gets too big, just click on the ‘-’ key. Just be sure you are holding the CTRL key down as you press the “+” and “-” keys.
Unfortunately, some browsers do things differently. For those, you will probably need to click on View/Zoom and then “+” or “-” in the browser’s menu. But once you find out how your browser does it, you can increase or decrease text size very easily wheneven you use it.
And make every story a one page story, giving the option to view on multiple pages. Its not like the screen is too short!
“It was also significant that the first attack on New York’s World Trade Center, which was intended to knock the North Tower into the South Tower and to generate mass killing, took place on February 26, 1993, when the Kremlin was celebrating 41 years since the first Soviet nuclear test. The suicide attack against the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole, in which 17 sailors were killed and 39 injured, took place on October 12, 2000. That was the anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s major offensive of 1973, which was decisive in Israel’s winning the Yom Kippur War. ”
- Such anniversaries one has each day. On the other hand I indeed have internal information that the glasses were raised in the KGB buffet on the day when the Yom Kippur war against Israel started in 1973 by the coordinated offensive of Egypt and Syrian forces.
GMAR HATIMA TOVA
Before I read this column , I look into the mirror. One face after one face appear maybe up to 50 faces and they look like demons then I see face with light halo bright as the sun I believe and Divine Love poured on me. I could not use that face to read the column so one of the 50 faces took over I believe
Then I began to think about Franklin Roosevelt having to look into the face of Hitler then look into the face of Stalin and wonder who would he end up holding hands with?
which brings me to Jimmy Carter. Without a Jimmy Carter never could Ronald Reagan be elected President and everyone who blames Franklin as having demons for holding hands with Stalin as Germany was cut in two and now we see Germany united again the powerhouse of Europe and one wonders if in they will whore for future China to keep up with the power elite
Which brings me to doctor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad PHd and how he had light around his head. If this stay with him instead of just freak light he could go to housing projects and unite millions upon millions of the poor to fling fling fling themselves at the “evil” Then use nuclear weapons to destroy “evil”
perhaps we need Mitt Romney to stand up to the Doctor president from Iran who had white light around his head but I also think wolf smile Obama can do this as well
God does not tell me which of the 50 faces I see in the mirror write this but I do not believe the face with the little liitle horns is the author today
more latter
I really appreciate the authors’ writings.
Unfortunately, as someone who works daily for and with Romanians, there are a lot of anti-semitic beliefs in Romania today, often by good people who would never think of hating an individual Jew, but who have fallen for conspiracy theories and whitewashing of their own history.
They admit the holocaust occurred, just deny their own part in it.
Mr. Pacepa’s articles are correct, timely and puts again many points in the right contest. I appreciate the elucidation about the dates of the different attacks which correspond to some anniversary of our enemies, or losses they had to swallow. But, the 11. September generally should not be confused with the founder of the KGB, who happened to be born on that day. Nevertheless, in this case of the Bengazi attacks of the US Embassy and murder of its Ambassador, which fall on Sept 11 – 2012 and on the 125. birthday of F. Dzerzhinski could well prove the involvement of the KGB. The 11 September has a much more powerful symbol, which the majority of people aren’t aware. THE BATTLE OF VIENNA IN 1683. On the night of the 11 Sept 1683 the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold Habsburg together with the overall command given to the Polish King Jan Sobieski III (and his Crown forces) and other forces, defended Vienna which was under siege from the Ottoman Empire, the Grand Vizir Mustafa Pasha. The Ottoman definitively lost, and they lost big. From then on, the Ottoman Empire never again tried to invade Europe, declined, and disappeared after WW1.
Yes, but would they remember the Christian date, or the Muslim date? I know we Jews generally stick to the Jewish date, thus the Chmelnitzky massacres are called “the decrees of (5)408 and (5)409″. (Besides, adoption of the Gregorian calendar was not done at once in Christendom.)
On the other hand, my understanding here is that Muslims stick to the “civil date” for birthdays, since there is no tradition of birthdays in Islam (or in Judaism, except according to Chabad, to my knowledge – yet in Israel the religiosu population insists on celebrating the Hebrew date).
On the third hand, Bin Laden came from a rather Westernized background. His family picture as a kid looks like a polygamous Brady Bunch.
By the way we still want Hija Sofia returned. We will never forget or forgive the desecration of this Christian temple.
Hillary Clinton, March 2011, said Bashar Assad was a “reformer”.
She later tried to claim she was only quoting others, but such weasel words from a US sec’y of state boggle the mind.
Hillary, Susan Rice et al. did their best to spin the boss’ selected version of Benghazi, but that little exercise in spin has fallen apart.
The press, of course, won’t hold their feet to the fire, a big part of the problem that enables the lying from this administration.
…the administration and the leaders of the Democratic Party have publicly rushed to conclusions without knowing the truth. For them, the prestige and the security of the administration seem to be a lot more important than the prestige and the security of the United States.
That’s the key, right there. Whatever they can do or say to make their particular crowd look good.
“President Reagan reversed all these trends by calling the tyrants and their tyrannies by their real names, and treating them as such. Remember his “Evil Empire”? The Soviet press agency TASS said those words demonstrated that Reagan was a “bellicose, lunatic anti-Communist.” But it was precisely that “lunatic anti-Communist” who won the 44-year Cold War and returned America to greatness.”
We need a president that will stand up to the major threat of the day. In Reagan’s day, it was communism. Today it is Islamofascism. The events of the past week prove that this is a very real threat and the death of our ambassador and three others in Libya also proves just how dangerous this threat is.
And let’s not forget the assault on our embassy in Cairo, where it took roughly two days before Morsi even commented on the attack, let alone condemned it. This is what the Islamofascists of the Muslim Brotherhood has to offer, and they were probably the ones that organized the attack on our embassy in Cairo.
We are entering a new “Cold War,” only this one is between Islam and the west. Recent events throughout the Muslim world only prove that this is a very real war and that it will probably take generations to resolve. But, like the Cold War, we need to embrace this struggle and stand up to these tyrants. Apologizing to them (like Obama did in 2009 in Cairo) and appeasing them (as Obama did with Iran during the 2009 revolt there) will only encourage them, and liberal Democrats never seem to learn that lesson. Perhaps it’s time Republicans start reminding the American public just how dangerous appeasing an enemy can be. A dead ambassador is the end result of Obama’s failed foreign policy and it’s only going to get worse unless we stand up to it NOW.
The Islamists are the useful fools of the Russians. The KGB, or whatever they call themselves now, is providing intelligence and material support for the terrorists’ attacks. It is vital that we understand who our real enemies are. We do not have the resources to fight the wrong people. The Russians are counting on that.
How can we expect courage and honest conviction from a coward? Not only does he appease the unappeasable, but his weak approach with the Russians — who aim for Middle East vs US discord — have now kicked out USAID without offering anything in return. Can enough Americans get outraged to vote this clown out of office? I hope so. I pray so. I bleed so.
Will you please comment on what you know about KGB or Bloc service support for anti- Vietnam War and Civil Rights groups during the 1960s and 1970s in the US? It’s about time we had a better appreciation of that subject.
Thank you for this column, I had some inkling of what your subject addresses but to hear it from someone who was behind the scenes and actually experienced it just renews my enthusiasm for “anyone but obama”. In this case, most certainly to work harder to elect Romney/Ryan in November. Regardless if they aren’t your first choice, they are the ONLY choice if we wish to save our and our children’s future.
They don’t hate you, they despise the contemptible you. Hate is for the worthy enemies. Contempt is for the appeasers.
” It was also significant that the first attack on New York’s World Trade Center, which was intended to knock the North Tower into the South Tower and to generate mass killing, took place on February 26, 1993, when the Kremlin was celebrating 41 years since the first Soviet nuclear test. ”
Huh? The first Soviet nuke test was 29 August 1949. 41 years later is 29 August 1990.
And the author failed to mention the legal basis for the Elian Gonzalez situation, but that would have ruined his narrative.
Of course a Tyrant as any “strong man” despise the appeasers.The transformation of the USSR into Russia that was declared as the “collaps of communism” had the same effect on the west as on the alcoholic who was freed from the deterrent ampoule.As the leftist Israelis the West began to “make friends” with the no more enemies.To appease Russians they help them to tie their ex-colonies-the precondition of reestablishment of the empire that they where so affraid off.
It would be nice to correspond with Mr.Pacepa. My thoughts about how we have a usurper presently as putative president goes to links (clues)of barry soetero 1.traveling to Pakistan/Russian under Indonesian passport
2. the live mic gaffe with Russian president Dimitri Medvedev
3. barry’s ability in disinformation with zero conscience
4. barry a red diaper baby of Frank Marshall Davis
5. Axelrod red diaper baby also
6. Valerie Jarrett also red diaper baby (father in law connect to Davis)
These connections are not coincidental. Many would appreciate insights from Mr. Pacepa on this topic of non-vetted barry soetero/obama/soehbarka/Shabazz whatever his real name may be.
Well, what were the KGB’s activities in Pakistan circa 1981?
The KGB for decades planted and watered the seeds of America-Hatred around the glove.
In 1968 the KGB had a big mission/staff at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. Their goal was to destabilize mexico and there by play hell with the US.
KGB sought out the most charismatic student leaders at UNAM, the largest Mexican University — 100,000 students.
The KGB demanded massive protests prior to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The soviet inspired student “orgnanizers” fired on the Mexico City Police thereby starting the famous Tlatelolco Massacre where between 200 and 1000 protesters were killed.
Former student radicals went on to become university professors and write books on “Tlatelolco”. None of them tell the truth that the students had intentionally been ramping up the tension for weeks by periodically firing at the police.
The KGB has pissed down a lot of misery in its sorry history.
The new egyptian government fears the mob.
They know tha mob can turn on them like they turned on Mubarek.
If I was in the CIA, I would be contacting all new egyptian politicians asking them if they have a plan b. Uncle Sam can be a great friend when the islamic mob turns on their government.
The mob is satanic.
The mob runs egypt.
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