Angela Merkel calls for widespread ban on full veil Islamic coverings

[Mc Mike]

34. Throwing a small bone to the right has never worked, in history.

Never. Ever. Not once.

It just encourages them to make more extreme demands. They have the mentality of radical revolutionaries who can never be appeased. Or the mentality of a small barking poodle, that gets encouraged to chase a large adult, when that adult walks away from the poodle. Or the mentality of '30's nazis, who kept demanding small bones until they launched their bid to take over the world.

It's possible that your sensibilities on the subject have been deadened by all the times the repugs screamed charges of "Neville Chamberlain" and "appeasement" at our side. So now that a German leader is performing an act of Chamberlain like appeasement to the nazis, on an international scale, you feel it is a "small bone".

I disagree with your strategic thinking on the subject, cx30, but it's a polite academic disagreement.