Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister of the United Kingdom in the years leading up to World War II, will forever be remembered as the fool who trusted Adolf Hitler.
But Chamberlain, at least, did not clap his hands like a thrilled fan-boy as Hitler arrived in Munich for talks in 1938. Give him that much.
President Donald Trump showed no such restraint when his old friend, Vladimir Putin, arrived for talks in Alaska last week. He had his staff lay out a red carpet, treating Putin as an honored guest in the land of the brave.
Ronald Reagan must have flipped in his grave, again. An American president was bowing and scraping to a former KGB agent who could be arrested for war crimes if he set foot in most European countries.
Instead, Trump squandered American power by backing down. Just