Not So Appeased

So now we have seen the first of the vile, rotten fruit born of Obama's foreign "policy." It looks remarkably like that produced by the Carter administration, does it not? But it'll all be okay! Barry has sent two destroyers. Destroyers: ships intended for hunting down submarines and screening task forces from missile attack. That'll show those dirty so-and-so bastards, won't it?

I've no doubt that most everyone who reads this blog learned early in life -- probably in elementary school -- that the only way to deal with someone who is hitting you is to HIT THEM BACK. Preferably harder. Curling up in a ball and apologizing to a bully will only increase the frequency and intensity of the beatings you receive. But American liberals don't get that. The reason they don't understand this most basic principle of human interaction is something I've touched on before: they're cowards.

These are the people who always ran from a fight because they were afraid of getting hit. These are the people who avoided athletics and found ways to skip P.E. class. These are the people who think that if you just produce enough art, everyone in the whole world will spontaneously begin singing in harmony, like some corny 1970s soft drink commercial. Yesterday, these people came up against hard reality and they followed true to form: they apologized to the attackers.

James Lileks has a good screed up about how the Left is responding in the details:

And pardon the fargin’ hell out of me if I dare to note that the signature value of the West these days, Tolerance, is best exemplified in a tiny hangnail of a nation which stands apart in its neighborhood for letting gay people live lives, instead of gathering everyone else to watch their lives ended - and that this nation, according to a smart and cultured and Western-educated Huffington Post contributor who blithely tweeted disregard over the death of our ambassador, should just please STFU and die. She writes:

Israel has no right to exist. Break that mental barrier and just say it: “Israel has no right to exist.” Roll it around your tongue, tweet it, post it as your Facebook status update – do it before you think twice. Delegitimization is here – have no fear. Palestine will be less painful than Israel ever was.

That's probably the most frightening thing I've seen come of this whole sordid affair. Having been confronted with the reality of Bad Men with Bad Intentions, the Left's knee-jerk response is not to fight back, but to scapegoat the Jews and throw an entire nation under the Palestinian bus. "Don't hit us again! Please! Here's our lunch money! Hit little Simon instead!" Of course, they're just following the example of their Messiah, so you can't really blame them. It'd be like blaming children for doing as they've witnessed their parents doing.

We have a huge problem, and it's not in the Middle East. It's right here, right now. It's the people in America who secretly believe that Neville Chamberlain had it right and that Jimmy Carter was a victim of circumstance. Which is ironic, since just as in 1980, we're seeing the chickens come home. Big, vicious, smelly chickens. These chickens are not interested in that nasty old roost, either; they want to come into the living room and crap on our heads.

Let's hope that Romney gets into office, and further that he has the sense to do exactly what Reagan did: put on the sap gloves and punch a few people in the mouth. Because if he doesn't, this is going to get very ugly, very quickly.