Too bad we couldn't talk to Neville Chamberlain. I feel for that man. He is maligned at selling out Czechoslovakia & that is true. But~~~we MUST remember why he would do what he did. Chamberlain & Europe has just gone through "The Great War", "The War to end all wars". The butchery of trench warfare was etched in blood in the soil of Eur…
Too bad we couldn't talk to Neville Chamberlain. I feel for that man. He is maligned at selling out Czechoslovakia & that is true. But~~~we MUST remember why he would do what he did. Chamberlain & Europe has just gone through "The Great War", "The War to end all wars". The butchery of trench warfare was etched in blood in the soil of Europe & in the minds of all the people who lived through it. Trying to avoid a repeat of that tragedy should not be held against him. Was he naive? Yes, I'm sure he was but he was also desperate to avoid the bloodshed of another all-encompassing war. He died a few months after his decision. He had cancer, which undoubtedly was affected by the stress of the decision. He is not a hero but he is much maligned for trying so keep the world from plunging into another global conflict. Of course it didn't work but we view his decision with 2020 hindsight just like we are doing with Obama's decision. Obama should have stood up to Putin but if it brought us to the brink of war with another great nuclear power what would the experts be saying now? We can't relive the past or change it but we should be able to control to some extent, the present. And to do that we need to take all the Putin apologists & call them out in the online forums. It's obvious that a large majority of our electorate does not obtain information from mainstream media so ads & posts have got to be made showing what kissing up to autocrats means to the average individual. Will we do that? I don't know???
Too bad we couldn't talk to Neville Chamberlain. I feel for that man. He is maligned at selling out Czechoslovakia & that is true. But~~~we MUST remember why he would do what he did. Chamberlain & Europe has just gone through "The Great War", "The War to end all wars". The butchery of trench warfare was etched in blood in the soil of Europe & in the minds of all the people who lived through it. Trying to avoid a repeat of that tragedy should not be held against him. Was he naive? Yes, I'm sure he was but he was also desperate to avoid the bloodshed of another all-encompassing war. He died a few months after his decision. He had cancer, which undoubtedly was affected by the stress of the decision. He is not a hero but he is much maligned for trying so keep the world from plunging into another global conflict. Of course it didn't work but we view his decision with 2020 hindsight just like we are doing with Obama's decision. Obama should have stood up to Putin but if it brought us to the brink of war with another great nuclear power what would the experts be saying now? We can't relive the past or change it but we should be able to control to some extent, the present. And to do that we need to take all the Putin apologists & call them out in the online forums. It's obvious that a large majority of our electorate does not obtain information from mainstream media so ads & posts have got to be made showing what kissing up to autocrats means to the average individual. Will we do that? I don't know???