Analogies to Munich versus Vietnam shift public support for war

Evidence

For example, in judging how the United States should respond to a threat by a totalitarian regime against a small nation, people were more supportive of military intervention if the international crisis was likened to the 1938 Munich agreement with Nazi Germany, an example of appeasement, than when it was likened to another Vietnam, an example of a disastrous military entanglement. … Gilovich adds a new twist to George Santayana’s adage that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it: Those who see an unwarranted likeness to the past are disposed to misapply its lessons. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 396 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Public relief at the Munich Agreement convinced few that it would hold — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 420; Framing crises by historical analogy shifts public support for war — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 396

Broader Connections

• Framing crises by historical analogy shifts public support for war #expands (0.95) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 396