<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by William Broyles]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=23251Author <![CDATA[Oval Office Appeaser]]> Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500 When Barack Obama was inaugurated, a Republican president had taken the peace, prosperity, and budget surpluses of the Clinton years and given us two wars, a devastated economy, and an almost trillion-dollar deficit. Obama was going to be our Franklin Roosevelt, our Winston Churchill"”a visionary leader who would give America hope again. Instead, he has turned out to be the Neville Chamberlain of American politics, drifting toward national catastrophe, one compromise at a time.

In the 1930s, desperate to keep the peace, Chamberlain caved in to every German demand. And he got war anyway. Let me be clear: the right-wing radicals in control of the Republican Party of course...]]>