A “Liberal with Sanity” Speaks up

Posted on May 21, 2008
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Former New York Mayor, Ed Koch, a liberal politician throughout his career and self described as “a liberal with sanity” speaks up on the Democrats’ race for the party’s presidential nominee and on President Bush:

History will redeem Bush

By Ed Koch

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | We are now getting down to the homestretch as we wrap up the Democratic primary and begin the race to the November general election. We will be electing the next president of the United States, and almost everyone expressing an opinion, informed or uninformed, believes the Democratic candidate will be Barack Obama.

I am a supporter of Hillary Clinton, but I too believe the odds of her defeating Barack Obama are overwhelmingly against her. It looks as if Senator Obama will prevail in the Democratic primary before or at the Democratic convention.

His rise has been phenomenal and swift. I believe a major attraction for Democratic voters is his optimistic personality, a strong desire for change and racial reconciliation. I believe the U.S. has indeed entered its Golden Age in which discriminatory views are rapidly breaking down. The result is that there is virtually no bar to the election nationally and locally of minority candidates, whether they be black, Hispanic or Jewish, and that gender bias in the selection of candidates, whether or not Hillary prevails, has been thoroughly defeated for elections to come. So our efforts now should be devoted to nominating and electing the best candidates available, particularly for president of the United States.

There is no doubt in my mind that the Democrats are plunging headlong into humiliating defeat by electing Senator Obama as their nominee. Not only has this upstart engaged in the same or worse shady deals that every other politician in Washington has, not only has he been caught lying, his lack of experience on foreign affairs shows every time he opens his mouth.

Anyone who can openly declare that he’s ready to sit down in his very first year without preconditions with the likes of the putrid little maggot Ahmedinajad or Korea’s Kim Sung Il has learned nothing from previous efforts. The Europeans have relentlessly pursued, over the years, a dialogue with Iran. All the while the Iranians kept stepping up their nuclear efforts. Under President Clinton former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, negotiated a nuclear freeze with North Korea, not only did Kim Sung Il laugh behind our back he accelerated his efforts. So much for toothless talk!

Anyone who knows me is aware that I am a proud American and a proud Jew who, while not religiously observant, fiercely loves and defends his faith. It has become fashionable for Americans in general, Jew and gentile, to hold President George W. Bush up to derision. As I believe many readers and listeners of my commentaries know, I crossed party lines in 2004 to support the President’s reelection, saying at the time that I did not agree with him on a single domestic issue, but I did believe he was the only one running who appreciated the threat of Islamic terrorism to American values and Western civilization and was prepared to wage a war to defend those values.

There is much to disagree with President Bush and his handling of the Iraqi War, there is however no doubt that Saddam Hussein was a serious destabilizing force in the region and when the whole story gets revealed most of the liberal anti war arguments will fall faster than a house of cards. There is no doubt that were it not for the current preoccupation of Al Quaieda with Iraq there would have been some serious terror attempts here on American soil, to repeat in a somewhat more catastrophic performance what they did on 9/11. A Kerry presidency would have been nothing more than a presidency of concession after concession by the US and broken promises by the terrorists and their backers in attempts to extract so much more.

I have no regrets for having made that decision and helping the President to win a second term. Today, according to the most recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, “71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as President, an all-time high in polling.” His position can be compared with that of Harry Truman who left Washington unpopular and alone in 1953. Today, with the passage of time, most historians and certainly the American people, see Truman in a different light, primarily for his willingness to stand firm against Soviet aggression, whether against Greece or South Korea, and proclaim the Truman Doctrine, effectively defending the free world from Soviet efforts to expand their hegemony. Like Truman, George W. Bush, in my view, will be seen as one of the few world leaders who recognized the danger of Islamic terrorism and was willing with Tony Blair to stand up to it and not capitulate.

It is not the president’s job to merely be popular. True leaders (throughout history) have often had to fight their own people almost as hard as they had to fight the enemy without. Most true leaders were hardly universally loved in their lifetimes, but history redeemed every single one of them.

In the days of Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and an organizer and supporter of terror, Western European countries led by France, Germany and Italy, had understandings with Islamic terrorists that if the terror was confined to acts against Israel, the European countries would allow the terrorists to function without challenge. What those European countries came to understand was that they could not buy peace by offering up Israel as a sacrificial lamb, because the ultimate goal of the supporters of Osama bin Laden, and other jihadists throughout the Islamic world, was and remains the reestablishment of the caliphate (or Islamic religious rule) in all Muslim lands, including in any nation that was once under Muslim rule, e.g., Spain. If successful, this would place one billion, 400 million Muslims under one theocracy.

Europe is slowly, ever so slowly, starting to wake up from its suicidal delusions. Their anti immigration laws are getting stiffer, many European countries are surrounded by heavy fences to keep undesirables out. Italy has just enacted some very tough laws for deporting immigrants. What brought about this seeming shift to the right of the enlightened European socialists? Simply, the tremendous surge in crimes and rapes. Criminal incidents and their brutality – in Europe – have grown in geometrical proportion as the number of immigrants has grown. And most of these new criminals claim to be Muslims…

Europe is also, slowly – ever so slowly – starting to understand that throwing Israel to the dogs will only increase the dog’s appetite for more… Then the dogs IslamoFascists will come for the others and not only bite the hand that fed it, but bite off the arms, the legs, the torso, the head as well!

As part of their master plan, the jihadists intend to bring the West to its knees, and to replace moderate Arab regimes, e.g., Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Turkey, with Islamic republics, ultimately to become part of the reborn caliphate.

For most of Osama bin Laden’s career, the destruction of Israel was not a priority. However, this has now changed as the jihadists believe that Western countries have grown weary of unending war and may be convinced to offer Israel up as a sacrificial lamb.

Osama is convinced that with the appeasers of the European Union, it should be easy to negotiate away Israel’s existence. Just as Chamberlain – for the sake of “peace in our time” – had no problem giving the Sudetenland to Hitler on that early morning in Munich, in 1938.

Recently, President Bush went to Israel to celebrate its 60th birthday as a nation and addressed its parliament, the Knesset. He said, “Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have an obligation to call this what it is: the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.”

Bush’s remarks were heavily criticized by leading Democrats, particularly Barack Obama, who said, “Now that’s exactly the kind of appalling attack that’s divided our country and that alienates us from the world.”

Really? Is it wrong to call the philosophy supporting negotiating at the highest levels — President to President without pre-conditions — with the terrorists and radicals by its rightful name — appeasement?

The President was accurate in my opinion in recalling the specter of Neville Chamberlain’s pre-World War II efforts to satisfy Adolf Hitler. Those efforts responded to Hitler’s siren call that all he wanted was the Sudetenland, with Chamberlain responding, “yes,” and returning to Britain waving a paper and announcing, “peace in our time.” Must we really learn the terrible lesson of Munich all over again seventy years later

The lesson of Munich was that the attempt at appeasement resulted in the biggest war known to mankind, with tens of millions of casualties! Albert Einstein, who was certainly not known as a warmonger, defined mental illness as the attempt to do the same thing over and over while expecting different results. Obama’s and his party’s reaction to the President’s speech only highlighted how dangerously insane their policies are!

Israel and the Western world are in great danger from a declared enemy that knows no limits when it comes to achieving its goal of destroying Western civilization and spreading militant Islam through threats and terrorism throughout the world.

The danger to Israel comes not from any unwillingness of its citizens to fight. They are willing to fight the enemy, and Israel is willing to suffer the deaths of its young men and women in battle to preserve its values and its very existence. The Western world appears in many parts of Europe in particular to have lost its self confidence and willingness to stand and fight an enemy willing to continue the war until victory is achieved and their goals met. When one side loses its resolve to fight and win and the other retains its resolve, that side which has lost its courage will look for ways to appease and entice the enemy to bring the war to a conclusion. If the enemy says, understanding the weakness, “give us the Sudetenland,” and later says “give us all of Czechoslovakia,” as we know from history, such demands will be met. Bin Laden, recognizing the willingness of some in the Western world to give up today’s Czechoslovakia – Israel – in two messages within the past few days, has emphasized his demand that Israel be delivered to the jihadists, saying, “To Western nations…this speech is to understand the core reason of the war between our civilization and your civilizations. I mean the Palestinian cause. The Palestinian cause is the major issue for my (Islamic) nation. It was an important element in fueling me from the beginning and the 19 others with a great motive to fight for those subjected to injustice and the oppressed.”

In fact, in most prior bin Laden threats, Palestine and Israel were rarely mentioned. Shrewdly, bin Laden, believing that with the war-weariness rising in the U.S. and Europe, and anti-Semitism escalating in Europe, there are fertile grounds to make Israel the new Czechoslovakia.

The reason I believe history will redeem President George W. Bush is that he is one of the few leaders on the planet today who understands the larger picture. He has not lost his courage and vision of the future. He knows what calamities await the world if it engages in appeasement and deserts an ally in order to buy an illusory peace. We will recognize his worth long after he is gone.

The blood of Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq (the precious blood of those willing to sacrifice their all for freedom, for liberty!) will have been spilled in vain if the Western world does not action soon against the new enemy, against appeasement. But worse, if the free world will not take decisive action while it still can terrible sacrifices will only be a prelude to the spilling of deep rivers of western blood! Ed Koch, as New York Mayor, made bold decisions that greatly benefited the city, he was not afraid to cross party lines when he thought it would be best for the country. Once again he has proven to be a “liberal with sanity!”