Post by 101ABN on Nov 25, 2013 19:16:57 GMT -8
"There is not a good record, from Philip of Macedon to Hitler to Stalin in the 1940s to Carter and the Soviets in the 1970s to radical Islamists in the 1990s, of expecting authoritarians and thugs to listen to reason, cool their aggression, and appreciate democracies’ sober and judicious appeal to logic — once they sense in the West greater eagerness to announce new, rather than to enforce old, agreements."
www.nationalreview.com/corner/364735/peace-our-time-victor-davis-hanson
