"The Futility of Appeasement." A Not So Distant Mirror...
I was re-reading The Proud Tower, a brilliant book by the great Barbara Tuchman, which we had bought decades ago at a used bookshop. Inside the back cover, someone had left this article from 1975. I had never noticed it before, but discovering it on this critical day for Israel with war in Ukraine raging was…eerie. While some—although not much—of it is a bit dated, most of what she wrote, as always, shines a harsh but necessary light on the world we live in today.