The Protracted Conflict: Neo-Appeasement

In the 1930s, Neville Chamber-lain, Lord Halifax, and others upon whom History has declined to smile used to try to placate Hitler by making concessions, in the mistaken hope that he would therefore desist from further conquests—and above all, refrain from waging war on the democracies. This type of political behavior became known as Appeasement.

Today, appeasement in a different form is with us; and to distinguish it from the earlier variety, let’s call it neo-appeasement.