Senator Barack Obama is still seething over the \u201cAppeasement\u201d issue.<\/p>\n
Today in a stump speech from Montana he defended his position of holding direct \u201ctalks\u201d with the terror supporting regime in Iran by citing other events where, in his view, direct talks saved the day.<\/p>\n
To illustrate his point, he cited the successful \u201cdiplomacy\u201d that averted a nuclear showdown with Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis.<\/p>\n
Time for another history lesson for the junior senator.<\/p>\n
President Kennedy\u2019s first public statement on the crisis occurred on October 22, 1962. This was a statement to the world, nationally broadcast. There was no direct communication between he and Russia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That\u2019s not negotiation Senator, that\u2019s called \u201cCross this line and I\u2019ll kick your ass!\u201d<\/p>\n
In the same statement Kennedy said:<\/p>\n
\u201cTo halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated. All ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation and port will, if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, be turned back. This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carriers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A \u201cquarantine\u201d is a blockade senator. A blockade is not a negotiation, it is a military operation. And don\u2019t go \u201clawyer\u201d on me; a \u201cquarantine\u201d IS a \u201cblockade\u201d and a blockade IS a military action and an overt act of war.<\/p>\n
This is not new doctrine either. It traces back further than the Spartan blockade of Athens following the Battle of Aegospotami in 404 BC or more recently during the Egyptian blockades of the Straits of Tiran prior to the 1956 Suez War and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. All of these resulted in wars.<\/p>\n
Kennedy then immediately increased air surveillance and established complete air superiority over the sovereign nation of Cuba. That too, senator was a military operation and an act of war.<\/p>\n
In that same statement, Kennedy also \u201cdirected the Armed Forces to prepare for any eventualities\u201d.<\/p>\n
This was Kennedy\u2019s flavor of \u201cnegotiating\u201d in a situation where, as threatening as it was, not one American had been killed.<\/p>\n
Iran has directly caused the deaths of hundreds of Americans and is without a doubt the most threatening regime in the Middle East and like Cuba has raised the stakes internationally on the nuclear issue.<\/p>\n
So senator, when are you going to issue a Kennedy-esque \u201cCross this line and I\u2019ll kick your ass!\u201d message?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"