Appeasement

Appeasement is the practice of resolving disputes through negotiation rather than aggression and violence.

Unfortunately, appeasement doesn't always work. For example, the appeasing policies of Britain in the 1930s towards Adolf Hitler's expansionist policies ultimately failed in 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland. However, this was because Hitler was quite literally insane and wanted to go to war, and no pieces of paper with his signature on it promising he wouldn't invade Czechoslovakia were going to change that.

Conservatives, particularly American Republicans, hate appeasement and instead proceed to bomb the crap out of less fortunate countries due to their "we do not negotiate with terrorists" policy.