Rumsfeld warns against appeasement - Yahoo! News

Rumsfeld warns against appeasement - Yahoo! News:

"SALT LAKE CITY - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday the world faces 'a new type of fascism' and warned against repeating the pre-World War II mistake of appeasement.
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Rumsfeld alluded to critics of the Bush administration's war policies in terms associated with the failure to stop Nazism in the 1930s, 'a time when a certain amount of cynicism and moral confusion set in among the Western democracies.'

Without explicitly citing Bush critics at home or abroad, he said 'it is apparent that many have still not learned history's lessons.' Aides to Rumsfeld said later he was not accusing the administration's critics of trying to appease the terrorists but was cautioning against a repeat of errors made in earlier eras.

Speaking to several thousand veterans at the American Legion's national convention, Rumsfeld said that as fascism and Nazism took hold in Europe, those who warned of a coming crisis were ridiculed or ignored. He quoted Winston Churchill as observing that trying to accommodate Hitler was 'a bit like feeding a crocodile, hoping it would eat you last.'

'I recount this history because once again we face similar challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism,' he said."

Video is also available from this article that quite clearly shows the complete lack of reality that Donald Rumsfield has at his disposal.