Letters to the Editor
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What Would McCain Do About Iran?
The idiotic question now is whether we should "appease" Iran, as Chamberlain appeased Hitler at Munich. We keep paying the price for most people not knowing history. The problem was not that Chamberlain met with Hitler, or even that he attempted to negotiate with him. The problem was that he caved in to untrustworthy assurances from Hitler and sold Czechoslovakia down the river. Does that mean that every time you meet with a bad guy you're going to cave in? What if Chamberlain had said to Hitler, despite threats of war, "No dice." History might have turned out differently.
All of this "we won't talk to you" is simply Bush's infantile attitude that he won't meet with people he doesn't agree with. It's apparently become a mantra of the Republicans, who use it as a way of showing how tough they are. It puts us in the position of not knowing what they would do. Attack Iran? Shouldn't we know if that's what McCain would do? An Iraeli paper reports today that BushCheney plan an attack before leaving office!
And what about the old Mafia saying, "Hold your friends close, and your enemies closer."