re: #409 HappyWarrior

Yeah seems to me that it’s the classic the survivors write history with Chamberlain. I have no great admiration for him fwiw but at the same time, him being the posterboy for “weakness” is propaganda.

There’s always somebody in the aftermath of a disaster or war who wants to convince others that it was avoidable and “those in charge” screwed things up. When you’re a man who’d spent decades as a political pariah, the appeal of presenting yourself as the one who could have saved millions of lives is too much to deny.