[SoCal Pubbie]

You can't possibly be serious. You're not really suggesting that Britain and France should not have opposed Hitler when it became apparent that his intentions were to control all of Europe under an iron fist of fascist domination.

The mistakes were made in 1936, when those two nations could have stopped Hitler at absolutely no cost save the expense of fuel to move a few divisions eastward into the Rhineland.

Regardless of the best path to take relative to Russia and Ukraine today, your post was one of the most preposterous ever written on Free Republic.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Had Neville not guaranteed the whole of Eastern Europe, it would have been Stalin versus Hitler, Bolshevism and Nazism destroying each other. Chamberlain in 1939, as today’s war party, forgot that a leader’s responsibility is to his own people.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I do agree that the time to act was in response to the Rhineland provocation. That’s on Stanley Baldwin and the French, not on the much-maligned Chamberlain who I think deserves a lot better than he gets today as the symbol of the one and only lesson the war party seems to want to take from history.