sergeriver wrote:
A-You must call terrorism anti-Islamic activities.
well, if it's either that or millions of dead people, appeasement, obviously.
sergeriver wrote:
B-You must remove some missiles from the border of a country far away from home.
appeasement. No missiles can be important enough to justify letting millions of your fellow countrymen die. You can always set them up elsewhere, or handle the issue differently.
sergeriver wrote:
C-You must recognize the independence of a Middle East state.
that's all ? appeasement.
sergeriver wrote:
D-You must take your support to a Middle East state away.
depends. are we contractually obliged to support that state ? if not, I'd say my own people are more important than other people. appeasement
sergeriver wrote:
E-You must set a bunch of terrorists free from jail.
if the alternative to that is that millions of people surely die, release them. The problem with such a decision, of course, is that you can never know what the ramifications of such a move could be. The same applies to B, C and D, obviously. On the other hand, you can always capture the terrorists again. But you cannot bring back millions of your own people. So I guess that's a no-brainer. Appeasement.
sergeriver wrote:
F-You must give your liberty away.
that's about the only issue where appeasement cannot help bring satisfactory results. And probably one of the few things that might be worth letting millions of people die for. At least that is what history would indicate. No appeasement.