Have we forgotten the lessons of appeasement?

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[The News-Press] 16 Feb 2008--As Americans begin a two-year celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, another anniversary approaches with far more significant and immediate implications.

This fall will mark the 70th anniversary of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's accord with Adolf Hitler at Munich, a bargain with the devil that sought to buy "peace for our time" but cost Czechoslovakia its freedom and led to World War II.

Some elements in modern Britain refuse to learn from the past and what happens when human nature is misdiagnosed.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, moves from one controversy to another; from approval of same-sex marriage, to a proposal that Islamic Sharia law should co-exist with British common law. In a radio interview, Williams said that integration of parts of Muslim law in Britain is "unavoidable."