As I have written about earlier, the Taliban have been planning to attack Pakistan in response to the recent offensive operation in the Swat Valley region. They carried out a few attacks and just today they struck a five-star hotel in Peshawar that is mainly frequented by foreigners. This is the problem with appeasement. For years, the Pakistani government was negotiating with the Taliban and trying to get a firm ceasefire. So the Taliban would agree to a ceasefire, only to use the lull in the fighting to plant sleeper terror cells around the country, to be activated if and when the Pakistani government decided to drive out the Taliban. So now, innocent civilians are being bombed and shot by Taliban terrorists in an effort to turn Pakistani public opinion against the military offensive.

The Obama administration should take the Pakistani experience as a lesson. The more that we normalize relations with states that sponsor terrorism and extend our hand to our enemies, the more that they will use our goodwill against us wherever possible. Appeasement is never the answer. Obama should think it through: even if Obama is absolutely right and the evil terrorists and tyrants of the world huddle around the campfire singing kumbaya, the long term strategy of these terrorists will be to threaten and strike at America because they know, like we know, that the President of the United States is seldom as naive as Barack. They know that the next President will not take provocations lying down and will not allow nations to threaten others with nuclear weapons or terrorism. So for the sake of the safety of American citizens, Obama must not appease our enemies.

-AG