Jason Kenney has blunt words for Canadian appeasers
Conservative MP Jason Kenney responds to an appeal from opposition MPs to start dealing with Hezbollah, beginning with taking Hezbollah off the terrorist list. The government position? We don't deal with Nazis.
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.
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Hezbollah is not a state. Hezbollah is not a country. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization developed and funded by Iran, for the express purpose of attacking Israel. What could these MPs possibly have to say to these terrorists.
Posted by: rick at August 22, 2006 03:55 PM
rick: The problem is the terrorists, Hezbollah, took Lebanon as well as Israel. They are supported and fighting a dirty little war for Iran and Syria against Israel while entrenched in Lebanon with members elected to their parliament. They are responsible for ravaging two countries.
What could the Three Stooges have to say to the terrorist Hesbollah? It looks like they are sympathetic to their cause. They want them delisted as terrorists. That's the report. When the sh-- hits the fan, they'll have another story. They have taken their pathetic agenda to play dirty politics to a new low and on foreign soil at that. It's a bad scene all around.
Posted by: Biddy at August 22, 2006 06:54 PM
These MPs embarrassed themselves and their political parties. The best part? None of them will ever get it!
Posted by: Paul at August 22, 2006 11:17 PM
You don't have to do too much research to see how well terrorists respond to negotiation. That dog don't hunt.
Posted by: rick at August 23, 2006 01:12 PM
Yes, amen to the fact that Wrzesnewskyj has no real power to promise anything to Hezbollah *shivers*
Posted by: Fir3start3r at August 23, 2006 03:40 PM
 
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