The liberal retreat from their call for de-escalation and peace talks.

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It was just this past Monday that 30 congressional members of the “progressive” caucus issued a mild statement on the Ukraine war. They condemned the Russian invasion but also warned of the dangers of escalation and the global threat of a nuclear confrontation.

They caught hell for it.

The catching hell came not from war-mongering Republicans. The loudest criticism came from Democrats.

The letter was quickly withdrawn. “Bad timing” the liberal letter writers explained.

It seems to me that from Vietnam to Afghanistan, nobody loves a war like the Democrats.

I wrote about talks to bring an end to the war in Ukraine and I was accused of appeasement by some on the left.

Those on the Right don’t normally read my posts.

Ironically, The Intercept points out that even former President Obama and his former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mike Mullen agree with some or all of the points in the now withdrawn letter.

“Probably the thing that I’m most concerned about is that lines of communication between the White House and the Kremlin are probably as weak as they have been in a very long time. Even in some of the lowest points of the Cold War, there was still a sense of the ability to pick up a phone and work through diplomatic channels to send clear signals. And a lot of that is broken down and I don’t think it’s the fault of our administration,” said Obama ever cautiously.

But the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff under Bush and Obama was much stronger in expressing his concerns about an escalating conflict.

I’m a little concerned about the language which we’re about at the top, if you will … President Biden’s language, we’re about at the top of the language scale, if you will. I think we need to back off that a little bit and do everything we possibly can to try to get to the table to resolve this thing. …

We’ve been talking about it since before the crisis started, an off-ramp for [Putin]. I suspect it’s in the east, if you will, with those four provinces or some combination of them with respect to how it all ends. And that really is up to, I think, [Secretary of State] Tony Blinken and other diplomats to figure out a way to get both [Ukrainian President Volodmyr] Zelenskyy and Putin to the table. And as is typical in any war, it has got to end and usually there are negotiations associated with that. The sooner the better as far as I’m concerned.

He’s right you know.

What do you think?