Well, I’d say giving cash to the Sunni insurgents in order to bribe them into fighting on our side conforms to the definition of “appeasement” you yourself cited above.

Also, H.B., buying intell is not what I’d call appeasement, or building schools and hospitals.

The word elected keeps coming up with you guys.
Hitler was elected, Saddam was elected, Stalin was elected, one way or another. Elected does not always mean the same thing as it does here, or does it warrant the same respect.
Heck, Bin Laden was probably elected by his peers!

Appeasement IS the current policy in Iraq.

You have to be numb in the mind to think John McCain was saying we should eliminate Hamas in that statement.

Watch the news of Burma, a government that is letting thousands die each day for what? How do you dignify their authority.

The genocide in the Sudan, we must need to have a chat with those guys.

Stalin was a great guy to chat with, he killed more of his own people than Hitler.

Maybe if Bin Laden would only apologize, we could all get along.

Can you reason with radical islam? Is there anything on the table that you could offer them? Heck, they don’t even accept that we exist as equal human beings, change that, human beings period.

Yes Sean, “deal with sooner or later”, deal with, not dignify.

“They’re the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it’s a new reality in the Middle East. I think the lesson is people want security and a decent life and decent future, that they want democracy. Fatah was not giving them that.”

“ An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last. ”

“It’s also somewhat ahistorical. The president has authorized American diplomats to talk to the Iranians in Iraq. They talked to them in Afghanistan. They talked to them in Bonn, Germany, during the founding of the Afghan government during which the Iranians and Americans worked together. The president’s own Secretary of Defense is right now arguing that we should be talking to the Iranians. We talked to the Soviet Union and China while they were forming revolutions all over the world and most recently, let’s remember, that David Petraeus has talked to the Sunni insurgents and terrorists who are killing Americans only months earlier. And that - a large part of the success of the surge has been the willingness of Petraeus and the American military to talk to the people who they once called terrorists and insurgents.“

‘Nuff said.