Once again, Dave skewers a liberal Letter writer who has no sense (5/21).

From the Laconia Daily Sun (P 4):

And exactly what school did Mr. Allard go to, The School of Revisionist History, Majoring in Bush Derangement Syndrome with letters in the Jimma Carter School of Diplomacy?

President George W Bush has every right to remind the world of the travesty that was a direct result of pacifism and appeasement. How many million Jewish people died, how many million others died because the world looked the other way?

Mr. Allard needs to be reminded that in recent history only one president met with a foreign adversary without "preconditions". Within two months of this meeting, Khrushchev was building the Berlin Wall, within a year there were nuclear weapons in Cuba, and when all was said and done the United States was withdrawing missiles from Turkey. We came within a gnats eyelash of global nuclear war as a result of a very young and naive president being "tested". Nixon did go to China and Reagan did meet with his Soviet counterparts but with preparation, preconditions and from a position of strength that resulted in strategic military, economic and diplomatic gains. Oh yeah, isn't the Berlin Wall in the ash dump of history now as well as the Iron Curtain?

We now have another young and naive presidential candidate that threatens to meet with all the worst that the world has to offer without conditions. We have a former president that hugs the Hamas terrorists. President Bush did not single out any individual in his speech before the Knesset. He reminded the world that we are doomed to repeat history if we don't learn from it. But this speech obviously has touched a very raw spot in the liberal world of appeasement as every one has their knickers in a bunch.

It would also be wise to remind Mr. Allard that Islamic terrorism did not start with the attack on our embassy but the weakness of Carters Rose Garden strategy certainly emboldened these extremists, one of which is now President of Iran.  Mr. Allard also seems to have forgotten that President Bush's policies resulted in India and Pakistan not going to war, Libya giving up their nuclear weapons and North Korea's ability to export the same being marginalized. By the way, whose naive policy had Secretary of State Albright ( an oxymoron ) dancing with Kim Jong Il and resulted in North Korea getting the weapon in the first place? It is a different kettle of fish one has to deal with when a rogue country already has the nuclear bomb.

However, I see the situation much differently than Mr. Allard does. In addition to the gains cited above under President Bushes administration, we have two fledgling democracy's emerging in Iraq and Afghanistan. Protection and nurturing is needed, not beating feet in retreat. We also have a force strategically placed in the theater that in and of itself is a massive deterrent to Iran and others. If we do leave, who among us really believes that we will either have to go back and fight a more difficult fight or we will have to abandon a true friend and ally in Israel? Will we lose more than 4000 service members? Will the result be worse than the Holocaust, something Iran doesn't even acknowledge occurred? Will this too be appeasement or do you have a different name for this? I do not ask this callously.

We have lost many brave Americans in this struggle against terrorists and my heart aches with each loss. I honor every member of our all voluntary military services and thank God that the United States has these fine people to protect us. I pray to God for them always.
 
Sincerely,
 
David R Horvath, Sr.
Gilford, NH

The Letter that needed such a response is after the jump.