We are still making the same mistakes today, look how nice we are to people like the Saudi royal family, ( money backers of terror)

Submitted by Phil Greend (Canada), May 25, 2010 at 12:29

It was a nice idea to try to deal with the bad muslims via talking and working with the less violent of the islamists. However appeasement does not work.

President Bush went out of his way to convince the American people and muslims that the U.S.A. did not hate most muslims and that it was only a few bad apples that had to be dealt with.

President Obama stated that America was not at war with islam and never would be.

The olive branch approach did not work with nazi germany.

The olive branch approach does not work with islamists.

Sadly many people do not understand that, islamists can not be appeased.

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