Commentary In 1933, Winston Churchill read a copy of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and concluded what few politicians of the time dared: Negotiation and appeasement only work with rational and moral people. Hitler was clearly irrational in his proposed execution of horrifying atrocities. Furthermore, he was clearly not moral. Hitler was so impassioned and dedicated to his ideology that nothing less than war would stop him. So, as Churchill put it, appeasement of Hitler by the United Kingdom “feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat [the UK] last.” It took seven years for British politicians to realize Churchill’s evaluation of Hitler was right and appoint him prime minister. But, by then, Nazi Germany had already invaded Poland, the Czech Republic, France, and the Low Countries of Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Countless lives would have been saved if people had dropped their optimistic delusions about humankind’s universal goodness and believed Churchill when he …