The example of Chamberlain’s decision and response being out-of-context caught my eye and I was thinking that maybe the information Peikoff brings is also somewhat out-of-context. What if Chamberlain had no other choice but to give in, he did not have the military power to fight and the war would have been catastrophic. I did some research and came to find this opinion: “When Chamberlain made his appeasement speech to the British people, he could have said that his policies against rearming had proved wrong in hindsight, and that the opposing party led by Churchill had been right all along. Of course that confession world have brought down his government and destroyed his life’s work in politics in the twilight of his life.” Would this course of actions been more ethical or any response that was giving the Czechoslovakia would have been not ethical?
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