In Defense of Neville Chamberlain, Hindsight’s Most Battered Punching Bag

By Ishaan Tharoor
Washington Post
Jul. 21, 2015

After the final agreement with Iran over its nuclear program was announced in Vienna last week, references to one long-gone politician surged on social media: Neville Chamberlain.

This is not surprising. The late British prime minister, who presided over the ill-fated Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler in September 1938, is the metaphor of choice for all who prefer confrontation to mediation.

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