Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Big Dog=Appeaser? (update)


"Clinton expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il for the hostile acts committed by the two American journalists against the DPRK after illegally intruding into it," the news agency reported. "Clinton courteously conveyed to Kim Jong Il an earnest request of the U.S. government to leniently pardon them and send them back home from a humanitarian point of view. --CNN

So, who will be the first wingnut to equate Bill Clinton with Neville Chamberlain?

  • Ralph Peters
  • One of the mung-slurpers at the Corner
  • Putz
  • Bob Owens
  • Michelle Malkin

First prize, a Cadillac Eldorado...

UPDATE: Dougj, my friend, we have a sort-of winner. It is, of course, Claudia Rosett (last seen comparing Obama himself to Chamberlain):

But the huge and disturbing question is, what else has Bill Clinton delivered? And to whom? ...

What will be the real costs of this high-profile brand of ransom payment? It’s not only the tyrant regime of Pyongyang that’s noting the rewards of hostage politics – which is becoming hard to distinguish from Obama’s broad efforts in any event to engage with the world’s most ruthless and manipulative tyrannies. Iran has just picked up three Americans accused by Iranian authorities of straying over the border from Iraq. Which ex-president should Iran now expect to come calling? Or, given the current calculus of hostage politics, and appeasement whatever the cost, should we expect that Obama will do it himself?

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