Airstrip One

Three in One

Anne Applebaum strains to try to understand the mind of the "appeaser".

An appeaser in this sense is generally not a bad person but simply one who has an inability to understand that you cannot deal with Stalinist, Hitlerist or Islamist tyrannies the way you deal with normal countries with which you have disputes.

Let's ignore the fact that she has put all three monsters together, showing the increasing apparent lack of depth within the war party.

Appeasers in the Daily Telegraph Dictionary of Political Thought seem to be anyone who

(a) supports Iraq's pretensions OR
(b) doesn't think that the Middle East is any of America's concern OR
(c) while seeing the Middle East as an American concern doesn't see it as a British concern OR
(d) believes that sanctions are keeping Saddam in his box very nicely OR
(e) thinks that more time would be useful before attacking

Appeasers as a term is wide and meaningless, rather like the Telegraph's foreign coverage.