"Churchill understood Hitler’s half-hearted attempts to pose as a man of peace for what they were. He famously referred to one of Hitler’s less bellicose speeches as “comfort for everyone on both sides of the Atlantic who wished to be humbugged.” [ Which was most of the folks. Sound familiar? There's a reasonable school of thought that Chamberlain had no choice but to appease based on popular opinion. Didn't know about the large peace marches in Britain before the war did you? Of course, a lot of it was Soviet sympathizers who only changed their minds when Hitler broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and attacked Stalin. -ed. ]

Alas, the Jihadists see no need to humbug us – we’re quite willing to humbug ourselves."