Roger:

Your comments crystalized for me who too many Democrats resemble:

The British upper classes in the period from 1939-1943.

Not really feeling the war was part of their problem, certainly not prepared to view it as a “war to the knife” between Germany and Great Britain. All too eager to find some negotiated way out of the war that they never really felt necessary in the first place.

John Lukacs’ “Five Days in London,” detailing the struggle between Churchill and Halifax might well serve as a template for the attitudes at work in Boston.