Episode 89: How Charges of 'Appeasement' Equate Diplomacy with Treason
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\\u201cIsrael says EU\'s response on Iran recalls Nazi appeasement,\\u201d reported Reuters. \\u201cThe Biden Plan for Appeasement,\\u201d spat a recent editorial in The New York Sun. An editorial in The Washington Examiner pleaded, \\u201cPresident Trump, stop the appeasement of North Korea."
New York Magazine tells us, \\u201cU.S. Scraps Military Exercise to Appease North Korea,\\u201d and The National Review\\u2019s Jonah Goldberg has denounced both Obama and Trump\'s respective "appeasements". This past June, Fox News ran an article, \\u201cRep. Tim Ryan calls Trump\\u2019s historic visit to the DMZ an \'appeasement tour.\'\\u201d
The \\u2018appeasement\\u2019 charge is shorthand for the weak-kneed naivety of pursuing peace with an implacable, existential, irredeemable, expansionist, and unequivocally evil enemy. Crying \\u2018Munich!\\u2019 works to obscure rational thought and stigmatizes diplomacy\\u2013\\u2013using the horrors of gas chambers and jackboots marching into Paris to equate the deescalation of a conflict with conspiring with the enemy.
We\'re joined today by Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Media.
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