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If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
-Ronald Reagan
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If History Teaches Us Anything, It Teaches

Ronald Reagan
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease red china. they are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. it points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative.
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(i)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. cowardice is a failing of character. appeasement is a failure of policy. stalin appeased hitler when he signed the molotov-ribbentrop pact. stalin was an evil character, to be sure. but cowardice really isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking of stalin ' that word is “sexy.” i'm kidding, i'm kidding.
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One difference between french appeasement and american appeasement is that france pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the united states pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.
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We have not inherited an easy world. if developments like the industrial revolution, which began in england, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. there are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. there is first the threat of global war. no president, no congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. if history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.
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