Neville Chamberlain had been warned that Adolf Hitler

would be just like Saddam Hussein, Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, Yasser Arafat, Hugo Chavez, Gamel
Abdel Nasser, Slobodan Milosevic, Kim Il-Sung,
and Vladimir Putin. But he dismissed the analogy
as ahistorical and appeased Hitler anyway,
just for the hell of it.