SteynOnline– I started my Wednesday morning with the great John Oakley on Toronto’s AM640. We talked a lot about Iran, a little bit about climate change, and just a soupçon about Mr John Graves Simcoe*, who may be an obscure figure these days but is a great man of the kind I’m not sure our world is any longer capable of producing.
I reiterated to John the point I made on the telly last night – that these routine Obama/Chamberlain comparisons are grotesquely unfair to Neville Chamberlain. He was 69 years old in 1938, and like almost everyone of that age he lived with the horror of a largely pointless war that had cost the British Empire one million lives. As I said to John, even far away in, say, Newfoundland, the toll of the dead reached into every village, every family. There were spinsters everywhere, not because these particular women had no wish to marry but because there was no one to marry. I disagree with Chamberlain but I can understand why avoiding at all costs doing that to another generation might be his priority.
Whereas what are we appeasing Iran for? Out of civilizational ennui – because to ask us to stare down some apocalyptic dimestore mullahs would take too much time away from the small, sensual pleasures of our electronically pampered lives. Yesterday Hillary Rodham Clinton, the officially designated president-in-waiting, gave a short statement on Iran, after which a journalist asked her, “Are you going to Taylor Swift tonight?”
Comparing Obammy to Chamberlain is grossly unfair to Chamberlain…
Good read…as always…
It is in our best national interest to keep dangerous people from becoming even more dangerous. The best way to do this is to make sure that if some tin pot dictator wants to start something, we can finish it quickly and violently.
Left wing pacifists typically believe that foreign leaders usually act rationally. Left wing pacifists don’t usually act rationally – why would foreign leaders be any different? Our President acts like Barney of children’s television fame (“I love you, you love me”), when he needs to act like T Rex of “Jurassic Park” fame.
Chamberlain was ignorant.
With the Dambamboozler it’s intentional.
The man’s a “post-racial” locust plague!
That’s Barry’s “Reggie has a hard on” face.
I don’t know if he was “ignorant” or if he was of a generation who believed that a man’s word was his bond. “Death before Dishonor” and all that.
But I do agree that Obola is EVIL – pure, unadulterated, unmitigated, hatred of all that is beautiful and pure.
Peasant checking in here. Looks like our overlords have decided we will eat for another day and as long as we can afford AC we’ll be cool.
78 degrees, 94% humidity