Zaitcev with regard to appeasement... you are certainly correct... I heard an interview with Henry Kissinger this past weekend where the question was asked (paraphrased):

"Isn't our attack against the Taliban and Usama bin Laden going to make them hate americans?"

The response was something to the effect that there were not degrees of hatred and that these folks already hate the west in general and americans in specific. There will be no appeasement attempted... all chance of that was buried in piles of rubble on the morning of September 11th 2001.