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Post by Cornflake on Mar 24, 2018 21:09:03 GMT -5
Hi, my name's Don and I'm here from the Neville Chamberlain Defense League.
Oh, not really. But my reading over the past couple of years has altered my view of him. Like most of us, I'd guess, I grew up viewing Chamberlain as a fool and probably a coward. How could he have been so obtuse? After all, Churchill figured it out. We all had the luxury of judging him in hindsight.
What I missed was that he very much shared the widespread horror over WWI, aka the Great War. A big chunk of an entire generation of young men in England, France and Germany were killed. Britain was largely ruined and neutered as a colonial power, although the edifice wouldn't fall completely until after WWII. There were a lot of people who thought that just about anything would be preferable to a repeat of that ghastly war. Chamberlain was just one of them. Those of us who didn't live through WWI ought to be slow to condemn them.
I've been a Churchill fan of sorts for most of my life but he was a cold-blooded bastard. You probably need someone like that at the helm when large casualties have to be accepted. I wouldn't have wanted to have a beer with the guy, though.
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Post by james on Mar 24, 2018 22:20:37 GMT -5
There is indeed a complicated, contextual, historical situation around the 'Munich Appeasement' Chamberlain narrative and its latter interpretations. Bolton and his jingoistic, islamophobic, unwavering PNAC lunacy does not really compare.
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Post by PaulKay on Mar 25, 2018 11:39:37 GMT -5
I’m waiting for the Trump/Un meeting whereupon Trump will “take him down” and put him into a bare naked choke until he gives up his nukes.
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