Is Aethelred the Unready Now at Helm of State?

From: Human Events | Date: February 14, 2005| Author: Spencer, Robert | Copyright information

Rice Seems to Believe Poverty Causes Terrorism

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seems to have learned the lessons of English history-but not, unfortunately, those of Churchill or Pitt, but of an older, less lionized figure: Aethelred the Unready.

In the year 994, Aethelred began paying off Danish raiding parties rather than fighting them. These payoffs, known as danegeld, continued sporadically until 1012. The money didn't keep the raiders away, but only brought more. The Eng...

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