I’m not quite sure what your point is, Roger, other than to re-iterate, with a lot of padding, the same old same old about how opposing the Iraq war is a form of appeasement.

Surely you can see that people of good will (and even intellectual courage) can perceive the Iraq war, and the policies of the Bush administration in response to the threat of terrorism, as terribly misguided. That the British once failed to take the threat of the Nazis seriously enough doesn’t mean that all threats at all times must become the orienting principle of a nation’s foreign policy, or that military intervention is necessarily the best response to any given threat.