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Romney Compares Diplomacy
In The Middle East To The ‘Accommodation’ Of Hitler
Think
Progress
Wednesday January 23, 2008
In a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition of Florida this
morning, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney compared individuals
who consider the Israeli-Palestinian conflict central to the challenges
in the Middle East to appeasers of Hitler in the 1930s.
In his remarks, Romney dismissed those who counsel diplomacy
in the region — specifically the Baker-Hamilton Commission
— as naively thinking “everything would be fine in
the Middle East” if “we could just settle things between
the Palestinians and the Israelis”:
“The consequences of that accommodation of his [Hitler’s]
press releases was devastating to the entire world, and most
devastating to millions of Jews,” Romney said to about
200 people at a Republican Jewish Coalition of Florida function.
“Today we have individuals who believe that the cause
of the challenges in the Middle East is the conflict in Israel
with the Palestinians, and that if somehow we could just have
the Baker-Hamilton Commission imposed and we could just settle
things between the Palestinians and the Israelis, why everything
would be fine in the Middle East.”
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Comparisons to Hitler appeasers do “not resonate with the
American people.”
In 2006, after then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld compared
Iraq war critics to those who believed Hitler “could be
appeased,” a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that
61 percent of Americans said it was “not appropriate”
for the White House to compare the Iraq war to the fight against
the Nazis.
Romney isn’t the first presidential candidate to make such
a comparison during this election cycle. At the GOP/YouTube Debate
in November, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) attacked Rep. Ron Paul’s
(R-TX) call to bring “our troops home” as the “kind
of attitude of isolationism and appeasement” that “allowed
Hitler to come to power.”
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