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When you have only one option you have already lost because you have no options. This is what appeasers don’t understand. When referring to the failed negotiation process with North Korea over it’s nuclear program Gary Samore at the Council on Foreign Relations said, “I think we’re sort of condemned to that process, because we don’t really have any alternative.” This kind of thinking is ludicrous. When you say the only option you have is the same failed option that hasn’t worked in the pass. The problem with appeasement is that it does not work, at best it works temporarily but as we learned with Hitler temporary isn’t good enough. Even if appeasement worked long term I still wouldn’t address the underlying issues. Now a days however we understand that appeasement does not even work in the short term because the appeasers are satisfied with just talking and the appeasement process and the other side is happy to talk and demand outrageous things because it gives them the ability to go on doing whatever they want without being stopped. Therefore when it seems like there is only one choice you must think of what would otherwise be unthinkable, this is why you must have the option of punishment and conflict when other punishments don’t work. But it must be more than in name only otherwise it will became apparent that the option is nothing but a empty threats. We know from teaching children that empty threats do nothing. Saying this does not make me or anyone else a warmonger but someone who understand that to have peace you must sometimes have war. When others know you are willing to back up your words with action than words have meaning and action doesn’t always have to be taken. You can not force someone to negotiate because you keep begging them, because they have no incentive to compromise on anything. When the other party is forced to negotiate because they know they will loose something if they don’t then negotiations can work.

Read more about this topic here Column One: The ‘realist’ fantasy

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