"We have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat, and France has suffered even more than we have." - WSC, speech made during debate to ratify the Munich Agreement in House of Commons, October 5, 1938. Nancy Astor heckled him by calling out "Nonsense."
Munich would blind Europe at a crucial time; France and Britain thought they had established peace, when all the really accomplished was a postponement of the war. An interesting examination of this can be found here.
This was the result of negotiating with a tyrant, and assuming he wanted peace as badly as you did. How can we negotiate with terrorists, when they have told us that they want to destroy us to our face?
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