Appeasement markers

The Washington Times ^ | February 18, 2006 | Victor Davis Hanson

[neverdem]

    It is easy to damn the 1930s appeasers of Adolf Hitler -- such as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain in England and Edouard Daladier in France -- given what the Nazis ultimately did when unleashed.

    But history demands not merely recognizing the truth post facto but trying to reconstruct the rationale of something that in hindsight seems inexplicable.

    Appeasement in the 1930s was popular with the European public for various reasons. All are instructive in our hesitation about stopping a nuclear Iran, or about defending the right of Western newspapers to print what they wish -- or about fighting radical Islamism in general.

    First, Europe was nearly destroyed in the Great War, a mere 20 years earlier. No responsible postwar leader wished to risk a second Continental bloodbath.

    Unfortunately, Hitler understood that all too well. In a game of diplomatic chicken, he figured many responsible democratic statesmen had more to lose than he did, as the weaker and once-beaten enemy.

    British intellectuals, like European Union idealists today, wrote books and treatises on the obsolescence of war. Conflicts were supposedly caused only by rapacious arms merchants and profiteers at home, not by antidemocratic dictators who saw forbearance as weakness. Winston Churchill was a voice in the wilderness -- and demonized as a warmonger and worse.

    Today, the 50-year Cold War is over, and Europe is at last free of burdensome military expenditure and the threat of global annihilation. Like Osama bin Laden, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad senses a certain weariness in much of the West as it counts on perpetual peace.

    He assumes most sober Westerners will do almost anything to avoid military confrontation to stop a potential threat -- even though, unlike Hitler, Mr. Ahmadinejad not only promises to liquidate the Jews but...

[neverdem]

A thank you for America - Iraqi mayor gives thanks to U.S. soldiers

It's hard to believe that a Gannett paper printed it. It's too bad that we can't post it.

[backhoe]

Neighbors, there's a "Bad Moon A-risin'"

Everything I have found about The War of the Twelve 'Toons ( links, blogs, quips, quotes, aggravating pictures ) is located here- click the Pic, and scroll backwards:

The title of this long-running post?

-Islam, a Religion of Peace®? Some links...--

[hershey]

AlGore's deplorable speechifying in Saudi Arabia was appeasement for big bucks.

[sheik yerbouty]

The Saudis are Algore's fiends..

[neverdem]

Thanks for the links.

[backhoe]

Thank you, for looking.

[rellimpank]

-bttt-

[nothingnew]

Like the appeasement of the 1930s, opting for the easier choice will only guarantee a more costly one later. --VDH

Kind of sums up the NWO fairly well. Somebody (I won't use 'they" anymore) wants the costlier one and for a distinct purpose. Somebody's wish to rule the world. (there is already a somebody who rules "this world", satan).

I urge all who wish to see a change in this world to go out and VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!........get back to me when nothing changes and you wonder why.

There's nothingnew under the sun. Only the return of the Son will change anything, and I will continue to get along as well as possible in this world, remaining optimistic that this is only a training ground for what's to come.

FMCDH(BITS)

[SJackson]

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