It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
This war of choice in Iraq is undermining the very fabric of American society.
I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.
The key lesson of the 1930s is that appeasement leads directly to war.
The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.
Appeasement was never a very clever policy, and it should not be our option today.
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
Peace is a conscious choice.
I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity.