The Ghosts of 1938
Yes, peace in the Middle East is a desired goal, but it cannot be attained by wearing the same rose-colored glasses as Neville Chamberlain in 1938.
EXCERPT:
The Trump administration has announced that there has been an electronically signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Being a student of history, I cannot help but be reminded of the 1938 Munich Agreement (Accord) between Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy. That agreement, without any Czechoslovakian input, ceded a disputed border area known as the Sudetenland to Adolf Hitler. Hitler’s claim was that the region was home to ethnic Germans and should be part of Germany. Not wanting any confrontation, the UK and France, represented by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Premier Edouard Daladier, believed that this concession would lead to continued European peace and appease Hitler’s quest for territorial expansion.
The “deal” did neither, as we know. In less than a year, Hitler would overrun Czechoslovakia and Poland, beginning World War II. Neville Chamberlain would infamously return to England and declare possessing a signed document from Herr Hitler and that there would be “peace for our time.” Hitler would later refer to the signed Munich Agreement as just a piece of paper.
Spot on again Colonel.
All the unconditional demands seem to have vanished being replaced by favorable midterm prospects and lowerng gas prices.
Like Hitler, who ever can rely on the Iranian leader to make good on any deal made with infidels?
Colonel West,
Thanks for the historical reminder and the effort to remind us all that another Neville chamberlain plan will fail miserably as it did previously.
Don’t you find it startling how easily history is forgotten?
America is now struggling with our 2nd Civil War and we have Democrat
and Republican politicians who no longer understand or support the government fought for and left to us by our Founding Fathers.