{"id":125,"date":"2006-03-28T09:01:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T17:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=125"},"modified":"2006-03-28T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T17:04:21","slug":"appeasement-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/appeasement-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeasement 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/0206\/hanson021606.php3?printer_friendly\">This excellent piece<\/a> puts into words some of what I&#8217;ve been thinking the last months:<\/p>\n<p><dd>It is easy to damn the 1930s appeasers of Hitler \u00e2\u20ac\u201d such as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain in England and Edouard Daladier in France \u00e2\u20ac\u201d given what the Nazis ultimately did when unleashed. But history demands not merely recognizing the truth post facto, but also trying to reconstruct the rationale of something that now in hindsight seems inexplicable.<\/p>\n<p><dd>Appeasement in the 1930s was popular with the European public for a variety of reasons. All of them are instructive in our hesitation about stopping . . . .<\/p>\n<p><dd>In response, either the West will continue to stand up now to these reoccurring post-Sept. 11 threats, or it will see the bullies&#8217; demands only increase as its own resistance weakens. Like the appeasement of the 1930s, opting for the easier choice will only guarantee a more costly one later on.<\/dd>\n<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>I believe the world is morally and socially weaker now than it was 60 years ago. By far.<\/p>\n<p>Is it too late to ask God to show mercy?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This excellent piece puts into words some of what I&#8217;ve been thinking the last months: It is easy to damn the 1930s appeasers of Hitler \u00e2\u20ac\u201d such as Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain in England and Edouard Daladier in France \u00e2\u20ac\u201d given what the Nazis ultimately did when unleashed. But history demands not merely recognizing &#8230; <a title=\"Appeasement 101\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2006\/appeasement-101\/\" aria-label=\"More on Appeasement 101\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisandthat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-21","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}