Angry in the Great White North

Jason Kenney doesn't mince words:

Jason Kenney says the fact that Hezbollah has a politicial wing doesn't change the fact that it is a terrorist group dedicated to the eradication of Israel.

He says Germany in the 1930s had a political party which ran in elections and provided social services but it was also dedicated to violence against the Jewish people.

Kenney says that the decision by three opposition MPs - a Liberal, a New Democrat and a Bloc member - to visit Lebanon this week offers political legitimacy to Hezbollah.

There is one problem with Jason Kenney's historical comparison.

In 1938, the great appeaser, Neville Chamberlain, promised "peace in our time" if only we would deal with the Nazis.

In 2006, Liberal Party MP Boris Wrzesnewskyj makes a similar promise. If only we talked to Hezbollah, we would have peace.

The difference? Neville Chamberlain was prime minister, and so had the power to offer the Sudetenland to Adolf Hitler, which of course only made further German expansion inevitable, and war a certainty.

Boris Wrzesnewskyj is a back bench MP in an opposition party that is likely to stay in opposition for a long time. He is in no position to offer his terrorist friends anything more than moral support.

Thank goodness for that.