Post a Comment On: Internal Monologue

[Image]I just thought that with all the talk from the administration about how this is such an existential struggle and how we should not be appeasing dictators (i.e. how we should bomb Iran) I should emulate Crooks and Liars and post this 1983 photo of Donald Rumsfeld greeting Saddam Hussien. Frank Rich (locked behind TimesSelect) has some choice words on the subject:
In his speech last week, Mr. Rumsfeld paraphrased Winston Churchill: Appeasing tyrants is “a bit like feeding a crocodile, hoping it would eat you last.” He can quote Churchill all he wants, but if he wants to self-righteously use that argument to smear others, the record shows that Mr. Rumsfeld cozied up to the crocodile of Baghdad as smarmily as anyone. To borrow the defense secretary’s own formulation, he suffers from moral confusion about Saddam.