Steve Chapman on Obama and the Appeasement Myth

Hawks
in the wild tend to be solitary creatures. But those in Washington,
D.C., often appear in noisy flocks. As Russian President Vladimir
Putin continues his predatory activities in Ukraine, conservatives
here are unanimous on how the Obama administration should respond:
by emulating the Bush administration. But the hawks have a problem.
They have a pathological need and a political incentive to fault
President Barack Obama for timidity on Ukraine. At the same time,
they must distract attention from the fact that they don’t actually
propose to do anything likely to affect Putin’s behavior. The stark
fact, writes Steve Chapman, is that Ukraine is not a place over
which the U.S. and NATO should be ready to go to war, and nothing
short of going to war will change its fate.

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