No Czechoslovakia

clipped from nysun.com In any event, it was a moving thing for many of us to hear Mr. Bush speak so clearly and eloquently and to speak so affectionately of the man, in title="Ariel Sharon" href="http://nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Ariel+Sharon">Ariel Sharon, with whom he once exchanged pointed words about the meaning of title=Munich href="http://nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Munich">Munich. That was days after the attacks of September 11, 2001, when Mr. Sharon, then prime minister, warned that Israel “will not be href="http://nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia.” At the time, Mr. Bush took it as an insult and was hurt, but he embraced the lesson of Munich in a way that has rarely been matched. This is something to think about on the eve of our own election. Painful though it may have been for Mr. Obama to sense himself as the object of Mr. Bush’s remarks, no one need rule out the possibility that, should the Democrat gain the White House, he will also gain an appreciation of what Mr. Bush has comprehended so clearly and of the nature of the covenant of which the president gave such an eloquent expression.