The French inclination toward appeasement was less noble than Britain's because it was inspired by an entirely different motivation. The French were riven by threats of government from the left and not just the left but the communist left. They had had the experience of the French revolution and the terror. More recently, they witnessed the near communist takeover of Spain and the terrible civil war there that preceded Europe's conflagration. There was a decided element in France which concluded that being conquered by Nazi Germany was preferable to being governed by communists. This attitude, of course, goes way beyond appeasement and borders on treason but it is an attitude which is understandable if not laudable in the context of prewar France.
We have an appeaser in Barack Obama but he is far more akin to the French who would rather be governed by the foreign enemy than by a domestic enemy. Barack Obama does not engage in appeasement because he wants to avoid war, he appeases because he does not care to spare America or even see her prosper. Obama, then, is someone who despises the American system and would welcome foreign influences congruent with his own political philosophy.
We should not regard Obama's appeasement as high-minded if misguided rather we should regarded it as fundamentally treasonous. In this sense Barack Obama is anything but the "classic" appeaser.
