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Clifton Jolley: Trump has become our Neville Chamberlain

In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in hopes of appeasing Hitler, signed the Munich Agreement ceding a region of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis.

Of Chamberlain’s miserably faithless and foolish covenant with a monster, Winston Churchill condemned: “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.”

When Trump entered into a similar agreement with the elected Hitlerian dictator of Turkey, the deal points were more mysterious, but the outcome as swift: Trump’s betrayal of our allies the Kurds resulted in attacks more immediate even than the Storm Troopers jack booting into Czechoslovakia.