Ethics

Reagan the Appeaser

By Ed Brayton

John McCain seems to be rewriting history just a bit with this comment:

"Yes, there have been appeasers in the past, and the president is exactly right, and one of them is Neville Chamberlain,'' Mr. McCain told reporters on his campaign bus after a speech in Columbus, Ohio. "I believe that it's not an accident that our hostages came home from Iran when President Reagan was president of the United States. He didn't sit down in a negotiation with the religious extremists in Iran, he made it very clear that those hostages were coming home.''

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 17, 2008 (boomark / email).