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I read Pat Buchanan’s historical analysis about the Munich agreement and the main decisions and events that lead to World War II. This is very interesting review and I will surely read Buchanan’s new book with great interest.

While I agree with the argument that we are judging Chamberlain unjustly and using the term Appeasement rather loosely. Buchanan explains Chamberlain reasoning and justifications to sign the Munich agreement, and preventing a war is only a partial explanation. It wasn’t the appeasement that lead to war, argue Buchanan, rather than the guarantees to protect Poland over the dispute over Danzig.

However, as it is wrong to blame the entire war on the Munich Agreement and on Chamberlain’s policies it is wrong to dismiss them all together. In addition it is wrong to assume that would the British not backed Poland over the Danzig question the war could have been avoided. The assumption in both cases is that Hitler was sane, and that he was not determine to go to war. I’m not sure that the second assessment is right, I’m pretty sure that the first is wrong.

While the world leaders didn’t have the benefit of retrospect, we do! and examining Hitler’s strategy during the entire war demonstrate a problematic connection between goals and actions. It is equally wrong to assume that the Munich Agreement appeasement was the cause of the war as it is wrong to assume that giving up in Danzig and forcing Poland into more reasonable policies would have prevented it.

Sixty seven years ago, on September 1^st, 1939, German forces invaded Poland and started what later become World War Two. And now 67 years after that horrible war, with all the experience that we presumably gained, can we say that the world is safer?

Can we look into the eyes of a child in Darfur and explain to him why are we waiting for the Sudan’s government to approve sending international force to stop the genocide and maybe save his life? Can we look at the eyes of Leanness child and promised him that the UN will send troops that will ensure that Terror organizations will not risk her life any more?  

Can we say that we learn how to deal with world leaders like Hitler and we will not appease them and that the Munich agreement was a mistake that will not happened again? Can we say that we are even trying to make the world safer place?