If we don’t believe in just bombing the hell out of anywhere “the enemy” might reside, innocent civilians be damned, and if we even mention the words “talking” or “diplomacy” in regard to “the enemy,” we’re appeasers. But if you think “the enemy” attacked us because of “the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the non-profit sector and the universities,” and you think the right thing to do is, therefore, to unmercifully destroy those things, you’re not appeasing them?
ap·peasePretty much to the letter of the definition there. As always, Digby made this point before I could get around to it (a couple days before, actually), but why do they still get away with this?
–verb (used with object), -peased, -peas·ing.
1. to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
2. to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage: The fruit appeased his hunger.
3. to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.
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