[Kip Lange]

There never would have been a 1942 to hand-wring about had Neville & Co. not appeased (and skimped on the military budget) for so many years, is the further point, I think...hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved if someone had called Hitler's bluff in his first early, emboldening gambits.

[Kip Lange]

...and let us not forget that "Nevill & Co." includes Joseph Kennedy, Sr. ;-)