Since when did FReepers put knee-jerk emotion over facts and logic?
When you lose a war the winner get to decide what territory you get to keep.
Pat’s wrong, by his standard every country that was ever punished by lost territory should wage war to get it back if the new owners of said property don’t negotiate to get it back.
It has been going on for quite a while. It is very very sad to watch. The vanguard of conservatism is slipping into some very sloppy habits.
He is not.
He is merely quoting Goebbels' propaganda of the time. The "negotiations" were about establishing a pretext for invasion of Poland. Hitler was privately livid over that "Schweinehund" Chamberlain for depriving him of his war with the appeasement at Munich.
The plan for Poland was to demand so much that Poland could not possibly comply.
Since when did FReepers put knee-jerk emotion over facts and logic?
He's wrong about WWII. The Czechoslovakian experience showed that it was impossible to negotiate with Hitler.
I can certainly understand the desire to avoid piling on, but wrong is wrong, even if everybody else says the same thing.