[Nifster]

I read this revisionist piece of crap. It is a way to make Chamberlain seem brilliant rather than calling him out for being the weak kneed lilly livered coward he trull was

[the scotsman]

Yes, I am not buying it.

Read any biography of, say, Eden or Churchill, and you will see that old Nev tried to deliberately discredit men like Eden especially, who opposed him and were younger politicians whom he thought would be the men of the future.

[Little Ray]

His government supported the development and acquisition of the Spitfire and Hurricane, and the development and emplacement of the Chain Low radar stations that defended the UK.
Unlike Obama, he was not a complete waste of skin.

[ChildOfThe60s]

"Poor Neville" did come badly out of history - and largely because Churchill wrote that history to ensure his own carefully crafted version of the 1930s would become the one indelibly etched upon the collective consciousness.

It's Churchill's fault? Insanity.

Now I'm going to go out on a limb and read more into this opinion piece *and* this statement in particular.

It's the Republicans, and those like Ted Cruz in particular, who are making Obama and Kerry look weak. We just don't know & understand all the variables he has to consider when he bows and ass kisses despotic murders. That his appeasement of animals like the Iranian rulers is really a calculated decision that is being slandered by conservatives for political gain.

Anyone else agree?

[Vigilanteman]

Well, it did take him less than one year after Munich to come to his senses. And he had the decency to resign, make way for Churchill and keep his piehole shut thereafter.

Show me any modern appeaser who can measure up to any of those qualities.

[donmeaker]

Churchill didn’t think Neville Chamberlain was the problem. He thought that the unreadiness foisted on Britain by Stanley Baldwin was the problem.

Chamberlain certainly made mistakes, but the Munich agreement was in fact a peace treaty that made peace, at the cost of Czech defenses. Hitler went beyond the agreement and took over the rest of Czechoslovakia (except for bits handed to Poland and Hungary), but that wasn’t Chamberlain’s fault.

It should be noted that German war production was vastly over estimated, as Germany intended, with conventional intelligence reporting that, for example, tank production was as high as 1400 tanks a month, which led to an understandable caution. Only after the war started were some German tanks captured, and from analysis of their serial numbers a better estimate was derived: No more than 275 a month. That is a big difference.

There is a nice article in Wikipedia on “The German Tank Problem”.