Saturday, May 17, 2008

The Familiar Sound Of Hogwash And "Warmongers"

clipped from hotair.com
And he finally argues that carving up Czechoslovakia was a legitimate expression
of the nation-state, pre-Munich.
That is simply hogwash, and it attempts to rescue Neville Chamberlain by
ignoring his greatest crime. No nation has ever had the right to dismember an
allied nation without its approval, or even its participation.
The mountains of Moravia and Bohemia presented a formidable natural defense
against German invasion, and the Czechoslovakians had added modern military
fortifications that would have stopped even a blitzkrieg cold, leaving Germany’s
western frontier open to assault from the much larger French Army. Any thought
of stopping Hitler from within ended at Munich and didn’t seriously reappear
until the senior German officers realized the war was lost after Normandy in
1944.
The historical context does not acquit Chamberlain, Britain, or France at all.
It shows the folly of coddling dictators who dream of world domination.
And as a commenter notes: "And all of it happened against the backdrop of people like Churchill warning Chamberlain not to believe Hitler and Churchill was called a warmonger for doing so. Hmmm…sound familiar?".