Neville Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler, and underestimated how badly the Nazis could behave. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
I believe that the Democrats are doing the same thing with Bush and the neocons.
...More Below the Fold...
Just like old Neville thought that by making a deal with Hitler, England could ride it out, the Democratic leadership is
appeasing the necons, failing to appreciate how ruthless these folks are.
Look at what they are doing:
- Spying without a warrant
- Faking intelligence to justify wars
- Torturing people in more than one country
- Trampling that little document called the "Constitution"
- Keeping votes open much longer than proper and otherwise disregarding the normal rules of the game
- Issuing fake terror alerts (see Keith Olbermann's article, The Nexus of Politics and Terror: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/... )
- Lying about [fill in the blank]
- Etc, etc.
And yet the Democratic leadership is acting like "Ho Hum", politics as usual. If we just hunker down, we'll win in the coming election cycles.
The DLC and other Dem leaders are acting like Neville: underestimating the ruthlessness of the enemy.