I am nearly finished with The Gathering Storm, Volume 1 of a six volume set of books written by Winston Churchill on World War Two. First off, I was very struck with the similarities the world faced in the 1930s that we face today. Back then, a dictator was allowed to violate treaties and grow in power while the countries that should have stepped in to stop him, instead appeased him. In fact, diplomacy won the day and we had, in the words of then-Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of England, "Peace For Our Time." Well, we all know how that...