Western powers tried negotiating with Adolph Hitler, too. The ‘piece of paper signed by Herr Hitler’ peace accord in Chamberlain’s hand was nothing more than a prelude to the conflagration that was to engulf Europe.
Hitler’s manipulation of the German electoral process to seize power in Germany, gave him or the Nazis no credibility. In fact, had western European nations eliminated Hitler and his thugs, 50 million lives would have been spared.
The Nazis understood the evil they were to unleash. They went to great lengths to hide their evil and what their ugly ideologies were to birth.
Like or not, many in the Muslim world cannot even be bothered to hide their intent. To believe we can negotiate with then in the same way we negotiate with civilized nations is absurd.
You cannot negotiate with anyone or society for whom ‘We’ll finish what Hitler started’ is an acceptable form political expression, taught in schools, broadcast in media or preached from the pulpit.
Not even the inheritors of Chamberlain, et al, could possibly believe that.
