Opaque Lucidity

It's good.

But I don't think it's fair to degrade Chamberlain. It's easy for us (except some liberals, I suppose) to see how agreements with madmen don't work. But Chamberlain certainly didn't have that advantage. He was genuinely trying to prevent war by using a method that was not yet discredited.

Also, I remember a supporters of the "Palestinian cause" (you know, throwing the Jews into the sea) claiming that appeasement doesn't work. He claimed the "Palestinians" had tried it and that it was time to end the experiment now.