Appeasement

I have the impression that a lot of Europeans continue to think that only countries that were involved in the Iraqi War have been and are going to be subject to terrorist threats, and that while terrorism is mostly unacceptable, it serves these countries right for getting involved in this imperialistic enterprise. This is total bollocks as Australian Prime Minister John Howard forcefully argued a while back, and here is further proof of this (via Instapundit):

The 7/7 bombings were all about the Iraq war, right? Ah, but alas the French don't appear to get a pass as a result of their noble non-interventionist policies...

As Winston Churchill said: "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last."