If not, it will rank with Munich, appeasement without the pretense of real peace.
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Negotiations were appeasement, the new administration believed, not a tool to advance American security.
They were all predicated on ignoring the lessons of the failure of appeasement in 2000.
Over time, the US policy of neglecting Iran was eventually replaced by a policy of appeasement.
But because he was committed to appeasement, Olmert could not fight to win in Lebanon.
Yet appeasement has a strong appeal to Mr Veltroni, who is in a vulnerable position.
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Never mind that such appeasement will produce more bad behavior from these quarters, not less.
This appeasement is multifaceted and pervades nearly every aspect of the US's relations with the Islamic world.
Rather than do this, guided by its appeasement ideology, the Obama administration has refused to take sides.
His appeasement policy has given the mullahs eight precious months of unimpeded work at their nuclear installations.
But when it involves an appeasement line in the Persian Gulf, the oil interests get a total pass.
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To further his government's appeasement policies, Olmert refused to order the IDF to seize south Lebanon or Gaza.
But because of the circular logic of appeasement, there was no way that Olmert could fight to win.
No doubt Mr Khamenei remembers the shah's disastrous attempts at appeasement in 1979.
Appeasement has not worked in the past and is destined to fail again.
The Democratic Unionist Party's Ian Paisley Junior said an 'act of reconciliation' would be "surrender and gross appeasement to terrorism".
It was the West's obsession then with appeasement that set the world on course for the cataclysm of World War II.
Indeed, he made clear that his aim was to re-embrace appeasement as his national strategy as soon as it was politically feasible.
Appeasement is as counterproductive in 1993 as it was in the 1930s.
These brave men have made clear that appeasement is not an option.
History has shown that appeasement does not work when dealing with evil.
Historical hindsight has judged the feckless appeasement and irresponsible isolationism of the 1920s and 1930s responsible for the catastrophe of World War II.
Mr Bush will be keen to make sure that his allies are not straying too far towards appeasement of the Shia power across the Gulf.
First, they know their countrymen don't like the sound of appeasement.
Appeasement remains the only option the administration is willing to consider.
They call this appeasement process a peace process for two reasons.
Obama replaced the two-headed policy with one of pure Arab appeasement.
When appeasement failed in 2000, Israel's media elites circled the wagons.
But with their appeasement agenda reigning supreme - as appeasement agendas always do - instead of fighting to win, Olmert and Livni sued for a cease-fire.
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