neville chamberlain went home. the same week that hat became chief of the army air corps and he waved this signed agreements and said, we have peace in our time. well, we all know what happened to that. it was -- it was over the next few years as tap was able to get an audience -- eventually, not initially, but eventually sympathetic franklin roosevelt the u.s. army air corps started to get what it needed. and you start out with 1700 mostly obsolete airplanes, when you've got to imagine that anything you get on top of that is going to be state of the art because new. and so she started building a this u.s. army air corps. and he started lobbying for more autonomy for the u.s. army air corps which leads into this whole idea that this is a man who invented the u.s. air force. he had a unique l.i. in a man named george marshall who was the guy who took over for male and greg. another one of these weird coincidences of history, george marshall took over for male and great in september of 1939. and -- which is on the ve

neville chamberlain went home the same week that hap became chief of the army air corps, and he waved this signed agreement at the airport, and he said we got peace many our time. well, we all know what happened to that. and it was, it was over the next, the next few years as hap was able to get an audience with -- an eventually, not initially -- sympathetic franklin roosevelt that the u.s. army air corps started to get what it needed. when you start out with 1700 mostly obsolete airplanes, then you've got to imagine that anything you get on top of that is going to be state of the art because it's new. and so he started building up this u.s. army air corps, and he started lobbying for more autonomy for the u.s. army air corps. this leads into this whole idea that this is a man who invented the u.s. air force. he had, he had a unique ally in a man named george marshall, general george marshall, who was the guy who took over from maylon craig. in another one of these weird coincidences of history, marshall took other from craig in september of 1939, which is on the very same week that h

neville chamberlain, the prime minister of of great britain, was there. and chancellor adolf hitler. and they, hiterer was, hitler was sort of stretching his muscles those days. he was, he had rearmed germany, and he was thinking that he wanted to run europe. well, england and france at no time want germany running europe, but they didn't want another war. so they had this summit conference in munich, and hitler said, okay, guys, not this those same words, but you get the idea. if you'll just give me most of czech czechoslovakia, then we've got a deal. i won't want any more. there'll be no war. so without bothering to ask czechoslovakia, britain and france said, sure. [laughter] mr. neville chamberlain went home same week that hap became chief of the army air corpses -- corps, and he waved this signed agreement, and he said we got peace in our time. well, we all know what happened to that. and it was, it was over the next few years as hap was able to get an audience with an eventually -- not initially -- sympathetic franklin roosevelt that the u.s. army a

we're telling ourselves what neville chamberlain once told himself about a different problem from hell in an earlier time. that is an equal, and i quote neville chamberlain, a quarrel in a foreign country between people of whom we know nothing. where is our outrage? where is our shame? it is true that our options to help in the conflict in syria were never good, and they certainly are worse and fewer now, but no one should believe that we are without options even now, and no one should believe that doing something meaningful to help in syria requires us to rerun the war in iraq. that is an excuse for inaction. that is not a question of options or capabilities. it is a question of will. these images of the human disaster in syria haunt me, and they should haunt all of my colleagues and all americans. but what haunts me even more than the horror unfolding before our eyes in syria is the thought that we will continue to do nothing meaning bfl it and how that deadens our national conscience and how it calls into question the moral sources of our great power and the foundations of our globa

we're telling ourselves what neville chamberlain once told himself about a different problem from hell in an earlier time. that is an equal, and i quote neville chamberlain, a quarrel in a foreign country between people of whom we know nothing. where is our outrage? where is our shame? it is true that our options to help in the conflict in syria were never good, and they certainly are worse and fewer now, but no one should believe that we are without options even now, and no one should believe that doing something meaningful to help in syria requires us to rerun the war in iraq. that is an excuse for inaction. that is not a question of options or capabilities. it is a question of will. these images of the human disaster in syria haunt me, and they should haunt all of my colleagues and all americans. but what haunts me even more than the horror unfolding before our eyes in syria is the thought that we will continue to do nothing meaning bfl it and how that deadens our national conscience and how it calls into question the moral sources of our great power and the foundations of our globa

a win-win situation but vladmir putin sees international relations as a zero-sum game when neville chamberlainup against machiavelli, chamberlain seldom wins. lou: chamberlain seldom won period. >> true. lou: irrespective of the opponent that sat across from him. this president is having a very tough time working out a conclusion, whether it be in egypt, whether it be in libya which ostensibly was a, he achieved his result but the, what has transpired since is horrible, horrible. so are there any successes for this administration? >> i'm not sure that there are. one of the problems this administration has when it to diplomacy it often sees diplomacy as beginning of a process, rather than the end of the process. if you look at one the best examples of successful diplomacy, ronald reagan with mikhail gorbachev. yes he sat down to talk with an enemy but that was after years of a military buildup to set the right circumstances for success. president obama doesn't seem to understand that. lou: as you, as you look at what is going on in russia, you talked about putin's fear of that, pro-western sent