Chamberlain believed that you can talk a monster into peace. It really doesn't matter what the details of the deal were. Whatever it had been, Hitler would still have ripped it up the moment he thought he could get away with it. And it's not like Hitler is the only example of this, even in recent history.

The fixation on Bush and his "stupidity" allows Democrats to deflect the yawning foreign policy and experience gap between Obama and McCain.

It's not like Obama has demonstrated a brilliant knowledge of history lately, either.

The foundation of liberal foreign policy seems to be that if you just get the right enlightened people in power, war (or even confrontation) should never really be necessary. It's a lovely fantasy, but thank God the Left was largely out of power during the latter part of the Cold War.