Your imagination has gotten the best of you.
Find one place where anyone responsible, let alone me, has suggested appeasement.
(And appeasement can work. The "protection" paid to the mob did buy protection.)
And, I'm NOT, nor have I ever, suggested appeasement.
You've blinded yourself with the conservative the "either-or" argument, and not seeing that the vast, vast majority of folks not involved in "terrorism" would be on our side if they knew the agenda was "terrorism" and the force was directed at "terrorists".
But appeasement is your word, your concept, your straw man. Which fits with an ad hominem argument.
Arf (betcha he ignores this one)