"For those who love peace, appeasement can be an appealing concept"

Editorial August 25, 2006
Sixty-eight years after Munich, appeasers are again seeking concord with anti-Semitic fascists who would rule the world
For those who love peace, appeasement can be an appealing concept: give the bad guys what they want, and they'll leave you alone. The only trouble is, as history repeatedly demonstrates, whatever peace it purchases is impermanent at best. Such was the case when Europe offered up Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany in 1938, hoping to quell Hitler's ambitions. It didn't work then, and it won't work now.