Neville Chamberlain was not the only one to fail when courage decisiveness and quick action were badly needed. The French, under Daladier, blindly went along with Chamberlain, Hitler , and Mussolini at the 1938 conference in Munich. The enslavement of the Czech people followed soon t hereafter . Within six months the war came and all of Europe and most of the rest of the world was drenched in blood. There is much to be said for historical memory as a valuable tool to prevent a repetition of past tragedies.
Peace is a good thing.
They end when one side wins, or both think they will never get a better deal than the one on the table. Because many of these Presidential Jews belong to the American branch of Peace Now. They are wonderful people, and I have been friends with some of them ever since the struggle for the Soviet Jews . But they are not really in touch with their community's political orientation, and it required special efforts on our part to point it out. Unrealistic expectations about peace work like a euphoria-inducing drug.