In article <W6ydnb-0XfFavbPVnZ2dnUVZ_hudnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> [This is a terrific example of how our educational system has failed to
> educate the baby-boom generation in the lessons of history. Read it and
> weep]
>
> May 16, 2008 8:52 AM
> Bush, and His Use of "Appeasement"
>
> Posted by Bruce Ramsey
>
> Democrats are rebuking President Bush for saying in his speech to the
> Knesset, here, that to łnegotiate with terrorists and radicals˛ is
> łappeasement.˛ The Democrats took it as a slap at Barack Obama. What
> bothers me is the continual reference to Hitler and his National
> Socialists, particularly the British and French accommodation at the
> Munich Conference of 1938.
>
> The narrative we're given about Munich is entirely in hindsight. We know
> what kind of man Hitler was, and that he started World War II in Europe.
> From the view of 1938, what Hitler was demanding at Munich was not
> unreasonable, according to the prevailing idea of the nation-state. His
> claim was that the German-speaking areas of Europe--and ones that
> thought of themselves as German --be under German authority. He had just
> annexed Austria, which was German-speaking, without bloodshed. There
> were two more small pieces of Germanic territory: the free city of
> Danzig and the Sudetenland, a border area of what is now the Czech
Republic.
>
> We live in an era when you do not change national borders for these
> sorts of reasons.
Too bad, if we did we might be able to sort out the mess called sub
Sahara Africa.
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