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...have deterred Saddam from invading Kuwait in the first place if it had made its military intentions clear in the days preceding August 2. But Washington sent out conflicting signals, and the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq told Saddam that she doubted an invasion would be answered with force. Neville Chamberlain used similar tactics at Munich in 1938. As Bush has said, it's called appeasement, and it doesn't work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It Was a War Worth Winning | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

Forum participants agreed that a women's center would not be separatist, but educational for everyone. Betsy Chamberlain '49 said the facility should be "a place with programs attractive to the whole university...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Alums Discuss Women's Center | 11/7/1990 | See Source »

...subtitle of the conference was "Resolving Conflict Through Dialogue and Democracy." But neither dialogue nor democracy is ultimately the answer. The author Conor Cruise-O'Brien pointed out that Neville Chamberlain's faith in dialogue gave the world the appeasement at Munich. As for democracy, said Carter: "Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Germany evolved from the results of a free election. We do not like to remember that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Anatomy of Hate | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

...editorial cartoonists in the U.S. and Europe, including Germany -- and particularly in Israel -- were identifying Saddam with Adolf Hitler, and Kuwait in 1990 with Czechoslovakia in 1938. One purveyor of this parallel even found historical prototypes for King Hussein (Benito Mussolini) and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt (Neville Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: America Abroad: The Dangers of Demonization | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

...Bush announced at a press conference that the American people have nothing to fear from German reunification. If he really believes this is so, we can only assume that Bush does not value history's lessons. Unless he changes his position, Bush could go down in history as Neville Chamberlain...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: The Case Against Reunification | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

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