Title for Muniching goes to Benjamin Netanyahu. Hitler, adding: “You are Chamberlain, and I am World stage,” as Bush rightly called him), told aĬolleague who doubted the wisdom of the invasion that Saddam was the new His sidekick Tony Blair (“my closest friend and partner on the In the Oval Office and quoted his words while warning about the danger ofĪppeasing Saddam Hussein. Bush could scarcely have done more to wrap Churchill’s mantle around himself, as he stood in front of the bust of the great man At the time of that criminalĪnd catastrophic war, short of puffing a cigar, wearing a bow tie, and giving a Names of Munich, Chamberlain, and appeasement have ever since been bywordsīefore that, there was President Obama and John Kerry’s nuclear deal with Iran, which Senator Ted Cruz of Texas called “the worst betrayal since Munich.” Before Iran, there was the conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008, when a somewhat predictable group of savants-Vaclav Havel, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Timothy Garton Ash, andīernard-Henri Lévy, inter alios- wrote in Le Monde under the heading, “ Le test géorgien, un nouveau Munich?” And of course before that, there was Iraq. Thanks to that episode, and to Winston Churchill’s denunciation of the agreement, the Book and film are set inġ938, and the plot line concerns the deal struck with Hitler by NevilleĬhamberlain, as part of his policy of gratifying, or appeasing, German demands.
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Movie Munich is based on Robert Harris’s thriller-with-attitude of the same name. It might better have been called Vengeance, the name of the book on which it isīased, whereas the newly released, and already very widely viewed, Netflix Olympic Games and the Israeli hit squad that hunted down and killed the Steven Spielberg’s 2005 picture is about the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Only one thing-even when there are two different movies called Munich. (if they survived wartime bombing), a fine opera house (where Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger were first performed), an excellent newspaper (the Süddeutsche Zeitung), and an all-conquering soccer team (Bayern Munich). The handsomeĬapital of Bavaria has a long and fascinating history, lovely baroque buildings The same name recurs over and again with monotonous inevitability. There is a debate over the value of conciliation as against the use of force, Chamberlain was wrong toĬompromise with Hitler in 1938.” And for Marc Thiessen in The Washington Post, “Biden appears to be channeling his inner Neville Chamberlain.” In any international conflict where In Georgia in 2008 and Crimea in 2014,” says John Herbst, a former American ambassador to Ukraine. That “appeasement of Russia would deliverĮxactly the same outcome as the betrayal of Czechoslovakia at Munich-dishonorĪnd disaster.” “I think we’ve tried appeasement with Mr. Stephen Blank, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, says Sooner or later, someone was going to shout “Munich.” Itself, what would the Western response be? But one thing was as certain as dayįollows night.
Was Vladimir Putin bluffing, would he really invade, could Ukraine defend As the Ukraine crisis escalated, much has been unsure or hard to foresee: The bombastic defense secretary in Boris Johnson’s government. “This has the whiff of Munich” ran the headline in the London Sunday Times, quoting Ben Wallace,
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