DAR AL HARB - ISRAEL: APPEASEMENT OF EXPANSIONIST POWERS LEADS TO DESCTRUCTIVE CONFRONTATIONS

Think Again: Islamists' historiography

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appeasement of expansionist powers only leads to a far more destructive confrontation later on - and referred me to a nearly 20-year-old Commentary article on the Munich agreements. Had France and England adopted a tough stance at Munich, Hitler's generals were prepared to unseat him. Instead, Czechoslovakia was stripped of its main defense line in the treacherous Sudeten mountains. It was, in Hitler's words, "served up to me," and a clear path to Eastern Europe provided for the Germans. Czechoslovakia's wealth and well-developed military industries thereafter played a major role in powering the Nazi war machine.

Unfortunately, the West still remains divided between America and a Europe unwilling to acknowledge the threat at its doorsteps, and in many cases within its gates. That same divide exists within America itself. As Jeff Jacoby points out, every Republican presidential hopeful lists the battle against the jihadists/global jihad/radical Islam/totalitarian Islam at the top of their priorities for the years to come. That battle barely rates a mention on the Web sites of any of the eight declared Democratic candidates.

The future depends on who wins the debate in the West no less than it did at Munich.


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1) Think Again: Islamists' historiography