The greatest tragedy of that century wasn't that WWII occurred, but that it never needed to have happened in the first place. If the European political leadership had shown some backbone when Hitler invaded the Sudetenland, he would have run away like a craven cowardly bully. Only the leaders of Europe were even more craven and cowardly than was the bully.

Instead Europe's leaders rationalized (Germany's just claims) and dithered while the beast feeding on their fear and lack of moral conviction and character grew stronger and stronger. To the point where the very survival of European democracy could have easily been lost forever.

Appeasement is what Europe excels at like no other, while it snuggles and comforts it's self with it's baby blanket of a self declared moral superiority it has not earned, and does not deserve.

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives in WWII

Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo

Appeasement countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.

Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture

Appeasement is the reaction to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere

When Will Europe Learn?

Will It Be Too Late This Time?