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NEWS ABOUT: appeasement

appeasement stories: 13 news summaries
OPINION

 Obama Set to 
 Bankrupt US, 
 Appease Foes 

Wrongheaded policies to be on display at UN, G20 meetings

Sep 22, 09 7:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's agenda can be summed up as "beggar thy neighbor, bankrupt thy country, and appease thy foe," as can be seen in his plans for summit meetings this week, Bret Stephens writes in the Wall Street Journal. The president chairs a UN Security Council meeting on... More »

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Iran • United Nations • summit • protectionism • nuclear disarmament • economic stimulus package • G20 • appeasement • Obama administration • President Obama

 Pawlenty Rips Obama's 
 Pre-9/11-Style 'Appeasement' 

Blasts talks with Iran, N. Korea, says similar moves didn't stop Nazis, Soviets, terrorists

Sep 18, 09 10:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a possible Republican presidential contender in 2012, tonight compared President Obama’s diplomatic moves on Iran, North Korea and the missile shield to pre-World War II and pre-9/11 “appeasement,” Politico reports. “The lessons of history are clear,” he told Christian conservatives. “... More »

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Iran • Mitt Romney • North Korea • missile shield • Nazi • Minnesota • Tim Pawlenty • foreign policy • appeasement • 9/11 attacks • Election 2012 • President Obama • Values Voters Summit

ANALYSIS

Dropping Missile Shield Is Jab at Bush—Not US Allies

Obama & Co. see Russia, Iran threats differently

Sep 17, 09 6:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s decision to shelve the missile shield for Eastern Europe is appeasement only to those obsessed with “legacy threats” like Russia, Marc Ambinder writes for the Atlantic. Obama believes the threat from Iran was overstated by President Bush, and that the shield technology wasn’t a sure... More »

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Iran • Russia • intelligence • missile shield • Poland • Robert Gates • Czech Republic • George W. Bush • appeasement • President Obama • short-range missiles • Marc Ambinder

OPINION

 JFK Negotiated
 (and Got His
 Butt Kicked) 

1961 summit with Khrushchev holds lessons for Obama

May 22, 08 12:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - On the campaign trail, Barack Obama often invokes a JFK maxim—"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate"—to back up his commitment to talk to America's enemies. But in a Times op-ed, two writers observe that Kennedy learned a tough... More »

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Barack Obama • John F. Kennedy • Cold War • negotiation • Cuban Missile Crisis • appeasement • Nikita Khrushchev

OPINION

Lieberman, Hagel Cross Aisles to Pound Candidates

Senators cross party lines with foreign policy criticism

May 21, 08 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Lieberman and Chuck Hagel are fighting a duel of aisle-crossing foreign policy critiques, as the former Dem candidate takes aim at Obama and the GOP heavyweight scolds McCain. “How did the Democratic Party get here?” Joe asks in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, accusing Barack of kow-towing to... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Chuck Hagel • Joe Lieberman • foreign policy • FDR • appeasement

OPINION

 Goldwater Vs. JFK Echoes in '08 

Obama vs. McCain recalls race that never happened in '64

May 21, 08 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The coming Obama/McCain matchup is an echo of another presidential bout, David Talbot writes for Salon—one that never happened between JFK and Barry Goldwater in 1964. Then as now, a young idealist takes on a seasoned ex-soldier over negotiation with hostile governments, to debate a fundamental question of whether... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • John F. Kennedy • Barry Goldwater • assassination • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • presidential election • appeasement

Opinion

 Politicians, Give Hitler a Rest 

No good can come when statesmen of any stripe invoke the Third Reich

May 20, 08 1:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Politicians just can’t stop invoking Hitler to make their points, complains Anne Applebaum on Slate. President Bush did it last week, saying negotiating with “terrorists and radicals” was tantamount to 1930s Nazi appeasement. It was a ridiculous statement, “giving tactical choices a phony moral grounding.” But... More »

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Adolf Hitler • Nazi • George W. Bush • appeasement

White House Blasts NBC Over Interview Edit

'Deceitful' cut took
Bush out of context, counselor complains

May 20, 08 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House went after NBC yesterday, accusing the network of doctoring a recent interview with President Bush, the Hill reports. Asked if comments about Iran were directed at Democratic candidate Barack Obama, Bush declined to answer directly, but White House counselor Ed Gillespie says the interview was purposely edited... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • NBC • White House • Ed Gillespie • American media • NBC News • George W. Bush • appeasement

OPINION

Surprise! Foreign Policy, Round 1, Goes to Obama

Unlike other Dems, Obama can win on war issues

May 19, 08 8:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama 1, Republicans 0—and on foreign policy, no less. Michael Tomasky marvels in the Guardian at Obama's recent clash with President Bush, who blasted Obama for proposing talks with Iran "without preconditions." Aren't Democrats supposed to be easy targets on foreign policy? Apparently not when they... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • foreign policy • George W. Bush • appeasement

 Hitler Donnybrook
 Rocks Hardball 

Matthews not appeased by conservative radio host's history gaps

May 16, 08 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - There's been an outcry from the Dems over President Bush's "appeasement" comments but the shouting was loudest on last night's Hardball, the Huffington Post reports. Radio host Kevin James sang the praises of Bush's remarks comparing Barack Obama's planned outreach to Iran to Nazi appeasement. But after being asked... More »

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Adolf Hitler • Hardball • Chris Matthews • talk show • appeasement

Dems Furious Over Bush 'Appeasement' Zinger

Anger over Bush's remarks to Knesset unite Democrats

May 16, 08 6:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats stood shoulder-to-shoulder in fury yesterday to lash President Bush for indicating that Barack Obama is like a Nazi appeaser because he supports outreach to countries like Iran. Even Hillary Clinton leaped to her rival's defense, Reuters reports. "President Bush's comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both... More »

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Iran • Nancy Pelosi • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John Kerry • Democratic Party • George W. Bush • appeasement

analysis

 Bush vs. Obama:
 It's Just the Start  

Expect more disputes between them in the general election

May 15, 08 7:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - When the president set off a political firestorm today by essentially likening Barack Obama to those who appeased the Nazis, he likely presaged a common theme in the general election, writes Massimo Calabresi in Time. Bush is trying to stay relevant—no better way than to inject himself in the... More »

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Barack Obama • Israel • Knesset • George W. Bush • appeasement • Nazis

Bush: Obama Would 'Appease' Terrorists

Obama: Bush 'politics
of fear' haven't made US or Israel safer

May 15, 08 10:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - He didn't name names, but he didn't need to. President Bush used an appearance before Israel’s Knesset today to accuse Barack Obama of the “foolish delusion” that “we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals.” In comments aimed at Obama’s support among American Jews, CNN notes,... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • Israel • Knesset • terrorist • the Jewish vote • George W. Bush • appeasement • Nazis

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