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And finally, I am tired of the neoconservative obsession with the 1930s. Of course it was a dramatic decade. But foreign policy hawks have been drawing mistaken “lessons” from the 1930s for the last 60 years. These days any foreign policy that is deemed not be macho enough is automatically labelled as “appeasement”. So, by extension, any foreign leader who finds himself in the crosshairs of American foreign policy is liable to be labelled a fascist. This kind of over-simplification seems to me obviously dangerous, leading to such foreign policy triumphs as the invasion of Iraq.

The FT's Gideon Rachman, venting against the appeasement canard.

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