Nobody else here is as skilled at using sheer logorrhea to deflect attention from a simple concept.

Yes, appeasement and "realism" are two sides of the same coin, which was the point, and probably a point you're trying very hard to avoid. I titled my post specifically, and if you're upset that Clinton was named, and Reagan, the first Bush, and others were not, sorry. I understand Clinton gets somewhat apoplectic himself when the subject comes up.

If you want to wander randomly off into comparing the 1993 bombing with the 9/11 attacks, we can go that way.

Start with two different world views. The 1993 view assumed that by arresting the specific perpetrators of a specific attack, we could write the attack off. The post-9/11 view was the realization that the problem was bigger than just dealing with a few particular attackers.