QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 8:27 P.M. ET:  Reader Brian Kuhn alerts us to an excellent column by Victor Davis Hanson, examining the appeasement policies of the Obama administration and the history of appeasement and where it leads.  The column contains this quote:

Even little words and gestures still matter in high-stakes international relations. Bad actors look hard for even the smallest sign that they might get away with aggression without consequences.

A deferential and apologetic President Obama may think he is making those abroad like us --and he may be right in some cases. But if history is any guide, aggressive powers are paying close attention to these seemingly insignificant signs. Soon, they may turn their wild ideas into concrete aggression -- once they convince themselves that America neither wants to nor is able to stop them.

COMMENT:  The Obama foreign policy is getting nowhere.  Far from being more respected in the world, we're increasingly seen as weak, pathetic and ineffective.  History shows where all this will lead.  We wish we had a press that was sufficiently alarmed, but we don't.

July 1, 2010