If the desire to conciliate becomes the sole operational basis of policy, we run the risk that the threat of war will become a weapon of blackmail; our allies and our moral values will both be permanently in danger. The desire for peace will be transformed into a caricature of itself, and become instead the beginning of appeasement. - Henry Kissenger, to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations. July 31, 1979.
Sounds like he is describing the Leftist approach to terrorism...
If the desire to conciliate becomes the sole operational basis of policy, we run the risk that the threat of war will become a weapon of blackmail;
Sounds like our policy regarding Palestine, Pakistan and SaudiArabia.