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demoncrap SOP for decades; Throw money at the problem.<\/em><\/p>\n

Appeasement in Real Time<\/a>
\nBiden and Blinken pay the Dane-Geld<\/em><\/p>\n

It is\u00a0wrong to put temptation\u00a0in the path of any nation,
\nFor fear they\u00a0should succumb and go astray;
\nSo when you are\u00a0requested to pay up or be molested,
\nYou will find it better policy to say:–<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For fear they\u00a0should succumb and go astray;
\nSo when you are\u00a0requested to pay up or be molested,
\nYou will find it\u00a0better\u00a0policy to say:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“We\u00a0never\u00a0pay any-one Dane-geld,
\nNo matter how\u00a0trifling the cost;
\nFor the end of that game is oppression and shame,
\nAnd the nation that plays it is lost!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rudyard Kipling,\u00a0Dane-Geld<\/em>\u00a0(closing verses).<\/p>\n

LESSONS OF MUNICH \u2013 WEAKNESS INVITES AGGRESSION.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Showing weakness has long been regarded as an invitation to aggression and war. Perhaps the most infamous example in modern history is\u00a0Neville Chamberlain\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0sit-down with Adolph Hitler in Munich in 1938, where he agreed to\u00a0appease Hitler by agreeing to Germany\u2019s annexation of the Sudetenland<\/a>, in exchange for \u201cpeace for our time<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

But history has taught us that, like paying the Dane-Geld, such appeasement is more likely to cause war and indescribable suffering than it is to prevent it.\u00a0 Despite those blood-soaked lessons, the appeasement gene continues to proliferate among cowardly politicians.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are countless examples of this in modern history, but it is beyond the scope of this short article to attempt to catalogue them here.\u00a0 Each reader will think of examples.<\/p>\n

Often the end results of policy decisions and statements, and how they invite more aggression and war, are not fully apparent until sometime later when it is too late because the damage has already occurred.\u00a0 Joe Biden\u2019s statement that a limited Russian invasion of Ukraine might be somewhat tolerable or at least met with dissention among the Western allies, is a good example.\u00a0 Predicting what Russia would do,\u00a0he said<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cit depends on what it does. It\u2019s one thing if it\u2019s a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do.<\/em>” Even though Biden and his handlers tried to \u201cwalk back\u201d (the press\u2019 euphemism of correcting a dumb statement) that invitation, the damage was already done \u2013 Biden had sent a signal to Putin of his thinking, and it was a signal of weakness.<\/p>\n

To the extent that we can, it therefore is important to call out such projections of weakness and appeasement in real time, as they are occurring. Because of the homicidal intent of the Islamists in the Mideast \u2013 indeed, across the globe \u2013 it is of over-riding importance to shine a light \u2013 no, to\u00a0focus, focus\u00a0and focus<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 on the most recent examples of this appeasement that are certain to cause more bloodshed, not only in Israel and the Mideast, but in the United States, Europe, and other countries worldwide.<\/p>\n

I am referring to the blatant lies and craven cowardice by U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his ostensible boss, Joe Biden, which have further encouraged Iran in its support for its and its proxies\u2019 murderous\u00a0jihad<\/em>\u00a0against Israel (and potentially the U.S. and Europe) about the supposed non-involvement of Iran in the barbaric atrocities Hamas is perpetrating upon Israeli civilians. These are not civilian \u201ccollateral damage\u201d caused by bombing, when Hamas attempts to hide among civilian shields or has situated its arms caches near hospitals and mosques.\u00a0 And, contrary to some attempts by our media to equate the two, they most decidedly are not in any way comparable to the IDF\u2019s targeting and killing of the barbaric Hamas\u00a0fighters<\/s>\u00a0terrorists.<\/p>\n

Blinken led off on Sunday, October 8, with his claim that our government has no evidence that Iran is behind Hamas\u2019 bloody and barbaric attacks on women, girls, babies, and other civilians. And his weasel-worded statement encourages both Iran and Hamas with its blatant evasions and flat-out lies.<\/p>\n

BLINKEN\u2019S WEASEL-WORDED EVASIONS AND DENIALS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Sunday, on NBC\u2019s Meet the Press, and CNN\u2019s State of the Union.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Blinken said<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cIn this moment, we don’t have anything that shows us that Iran was directly involved in this attack, in planning it or in carrying it out.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u201cIn this specific instance, we have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

What a weasel-worded evasion.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

These are people who carefully plan their statements and choose their words carefully.\u00a0 So, look at the qualifier:\u00a0 Blinken claims that we have no evidence that Iran was \u201cdirectly\u201d involved. That qualifier concedes that we do have evidence that Iran was\u00a0indirectly<\/em>\u00a0involved.<\/p>\n

Blinken\u2019s claim that we have no evidence that Iran even \u201cwas behind this particular attack<\/em>\u201d crosses the line from evasion to outright falsehood.\u00a0 It has long been known that Iran is Hamas\u2019 financial backer.\u00a0 Without Iran\u2019s financial support Hamas would not have been able to launch this barbaric wave of terror. So, was the country that funded the attack \u201cbehind it\u201d?<\/p>\n

As\u00a0Iran International reports<\/a>, \u201cBlinken’s statement contradicts years of evidence<\/strong>\u00a0which has proven that Iran pays Hamas around $100m annually, as was announced in 2018 by the then-Middle East envoy\u00a0Jason Greenblatt, under the Donald Trump administration.\u201d (bolded emphasis added)<\/p>\n

Blinken says that we don\u2019t have \u201canything<\/strong><\/em>\u201d showing that Iran was \u201cbehind\u201d the attack. We also do not have anything showing that, say, Iceland or Bolivia was involved. As I have\u00a0written previously<\/a>, we are led by Donkeys.<\/p>\n

Not \u201canything<\/em>\u201d? Consider just these \u2018anythings\u2019 reported by the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and other sources and the application of common sense:<\/p>\n