So, you do not believe that 'they' (the victorious Allies of WWI) should not have stood more firmly against Hitler in 1938 in Munich?
So, you do not believe that we should stand firm and watchful against any serious Threat Vector emanating from a large-scale, hostile, alien belief system?
No, I think Chamberlain made the entirely right call at Munich...
Yes, I believe that you think Chamberlain made the right call, but it was helpful to have you confirm that. Thank you. I had expected nothing less.
Neville Chamberlain's implicit surrender at Munich was the Allies' very last chance to stop Adolf Hitler before he grew too strong for the rest of Europe to handle.
This is recognized as a mistake by most analysts and students of modern history, but it does not surprise me that you disagree with them.
...The Germans had a right to the Sudetenland, which was mostly inhabited by Germans...
So, the Germans had a right to the Sudatenland (part of Czechoslovakia), and, by way of extension, Austria, and the German-speaking areas of Switzerland, which were all mostly inhabited by Germans or German-speakers?
...The Slovaks didn't want to be in the same country as the Czechs and Germany already had the Czechs surrounded on three sides...
What has this to do with whether or not Chamberlain (the Allies - the British and French, specifically) should have firmly denied Hitler his next Anschluss?
The Czechs were safe for weeks - or months - behind their border fortifications - among the most formidable in Europe - until the Allies could join them on the ground.
Trouble is, the gutless, nutless British and French governments would not stand firmly against The Enemy, and, ultimately, paid the price for their cowardice, and for their desertion of a pledged ally, and their respective Peoples paid a vastly greater price within months of this abandonment and treachery, greater by several orders of magnitude.
...What Chamberlain did that was stupid was to give a blank check to the Polish Colonels that he had their back in case of a war with Germany, instead of twisting their arm to return the Danzig Corridor...
Wow.
Had you been The Deciderer in Europe in 1938-1939, you would have given Hitler all the lands in which Germans or German-speakers were a majority, and you would have gone back on your earlier pledged word to defend your Eastern ally (Poland), and you would have surrendered Danzig, to prove your weakness to the Wolf at your door.
You and Neville Chamberlain would have made good bedfellows and fellow travelers.
...Now, here's the thing. ISIL is really, really scary and I know you are wetting yourself every time you watch Fox News because you're weally, weally scared, little Kondor...
My, my, my... just a wee bit testy today, aren't we, Princess?
I watch BBC World News and France 24 and the English language editions of Der Spiegel and RT and CBS and ABC and NBC and Fox and CNN and others.
I listen to both Liberal and Conservative talk-radio in roughly equal measure.
I'm not scared... I merely add my voice to the large and loud and necessary chorus who sound the warning klaxon about Radical Militant Islam.
By virtue of your affinity with Neville Chamberlain, and your obvious candidacy for the role of Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkey, it seems safe to ignore your unprovoked and insulting remarks, but, I understand that you have to mask your Chamberlain-esque position with a show of bravado of some kind or another, so, have a field day with it.
...But they arent' an existential threat to the United States...
The trick of the exercise is to (a) recognize such existential threats in their formative years, then (b) neutralize such potential threats, before they can materialize.
But I would not expect a Neville Chamberlain -wannabe, to either recognize such a need, nor support such common sense interventions.
...If the people over there can't get it together to fight them, I'm really not going to get worked up over.
Good.
Don't get worked up over it.
As a matter of fact, stay out of it, altogether.
People with more common sense and more political nerve than a Neville Chamberlain will handle this.