Fatwa #4 on Munich and Appeasement

People should stop mentioning Munich or "appeasement" every time a new conflict rolls around as if that should automatically end any argument.
The reason you need to stop is because appeasement didn't start with Munich.
APPEASEMENT STARTED AT MADRID. Did you hear that, you stupid sheep? MADRID. SPAIN. I'm putting it in all caps so you bleating morons can begin to understand.
APPEASEMENT BEGAN WHEN THE FREE WORLD STOOD BY AND LET HITLER AND MUSSOLINI SEND "VOLUNTEERS" IN "VOLUNTEER" STUKAS AND MESSERSCHMITTS TO BOMB SPAIN.
Why did the free world do that? Because Spanish Fascists (and by extension their Italian and German sponsors) were less scary to us than Spanish Communists (and by extension their Soviet Russian sponsors.)
Why did the free world believe that? Because politics and national interests are a dirty business and full of inconsistencies.
IF WE HAD STOOD UP TO FASCISM IN SPAIN THERE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A NEED FOR MUNICH.
But then we wouldn't have had the satisfaction of watching the Nazis and Communists butcher each other on the Eastern front for four years grinding the strength out of each other.
Like I said, it's a dirty business.
WE DIDN'T FIGHT A WAR AGAINST FASCISM, WE JUST FOUGHT THE FASCISTS WHO MADE THE MISTAKE OF PICKING A FIGHT WITH US.
If the "Greatest Generation" had grasped this lesson at any point in the course of their lives we could have made a lot of smarter choices afterward, but instead they just learned to say "Munich" and "appeasement" as if they knew a damned thing about what they were talking about.
If they thought about it for a second they might even think that appeasement started in Ethiopia, where the "free world" decided to stand aside as a tin pot with a funny hat shot his way into the last unclaimed corner of colonized Africa. And guess why the free world decided to let Ethiopia take it? Because being a global power is a dirty business. Because in 1936 letting other Africans watch Ethiopians fight for their independence seemed like a dangerous idea, sort of like communism in Spain.

Diplomacy is a dirty business. Don't try talking about it unless you understand it. And don't use words like "Munich" and "appeasement" as if you really mean them, because nobody who actually has to run a country has the luxury of believing in nonsense like that. Time for the rest of you to get a little brighter, too. Stop repeating stupid slogans. I will no longer appease you people by letting you mention Munich and appeasement. I'm taking my stand here with this fatwa.