> Yes. It is a truth too often forgotten that only three leaders chose to
> put and keep their countries in harm's way: everybody else ran for cover
> until Hitler attacked them.
>
> Great praise and honor are due to Edouard Daladier, Winston Churchill,
> and Neville Chamberlain.
I'm a little confused here. Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier are generally considered the icons of appeasement for being the only signers of the Munich Agreement besides Hitler and Mussolini.
To grant them highest honors would seem to require a revisionist defense of appeasement. Which can be done -- but seems the opposite of the position you're espousing.
Michael