Appeasement…the results are always the same.

We need moral, constitutionally-driven leaders.  Fiction allows us to yearn for such leaders and helps us identify them and demand they serve a Republic that so desperately needs them.

As the Iranian leader observes of the new American President in 2008…

“The new American government will be less aggressive in matters critical to us.  Thorpe will not be as supportive of Israel, and the Jews will not be allowed to attack us.  We will continue our antagonistic public policy but an attack on Israel would be an action even the pacifist Thorpe could not ignore. 

“We will withhold support to our Al Qaida brothers for the foreseeable future.  They may launch attacks that will be minor; most will not succeed for they do not have the capability or leadership for a major action.  The new American government will weaken itself, and we shall allow it to do so.  A major attack on America would rally opposition to the new President, and it is in our best interest that he remains in power for eight years.  We will be patient.  Our task will be easier in a few years.

The Tenth Amendment:  The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

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