PEACE IN OUR TIME!
April 7, 2007
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In one of our BLOGS on April 3, I closed my heading with the following comment: “Perhaps she (Pelosi) will return with a signed agreement shouting ‘Peace in our Time.’” This was of course the notorious shout of Neville Chamberlain, as he held high a document signed by Hitler, after returning to England from the 1938 Munich Conference.
I watched Hitler’s infamous Nazi butchers sweep across Poland in 1939, and, if I live long enough, I will also see the Islamic headhunters sweep south in Israel to Beersheba. I believe Israel will eventually agree to a long term Hudna (truce) with the Hamas PA government, and as soon as the Arab nations think they are strong enough, Islamic forces will sweep south, while the PA attacks from within.
No one really thought the funny little shouting. red faced man, could do very much – After all, England ruled the seas, and France had her great invincible Maginot Line.
The Maginot Line dominated French military thinking in 1929-1939 inter-war years. The Maginot Line was a vast fortification that spread along the French/German border, but became a military liability when the Germans attacked France in the spring of 1940 using blitzkrieg – a tactic that completely emasculated the Maginot Line’s purpose.
It would have been beneficial if Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton could have been teenagers from 1929 to 1939, and actually experienced the appeasement attitude that developed in this country.
Congress had no desire to let Britain and France drag them into another European war, and we played a role of dialog, dialog, dialog, diplomacy, diplomacy, diplomacy, while the American public’s attitude was strictly anti-war.
It is one thing to learn about this period from books, but it was realism personified to have lived through it.
Pelosi was born during the 1940 French blitzkrieg as a forerunner of baby boomer Hillary Clinton, who was born in 1947 after WW2 ended. I lived through both the Depression and World War II.
I learned as a teenager the terrible price a country eventually pays when it takes the path of appeasement toward evil fanatics. I am now watching the same type of appeasement toward a funny little man in Iran with a scraggy beard and a forced little smile, who is planning to do the same thing across the Middle East and North Africa that Hitler did across Europe. Hitler’s goal was a Nazi Empire composed of a genetically perfect super race of Arians. Ahmadinejad’s goal is an Islamic Caliphate composed of the true followers of Allah.
The Article which follows by Ronald Kessler hits the mark on the path of appeasement that is surrendering our will to evil fanatics, who have nothing but harm intended for us and Israel in the future.
Begin NewsMax.com Washington Insider Column by Ronald Kessler
OUR PELOSI IS NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
By Ronald Kessler
With her trip to Syria, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi achieved two things: She undercut her own credibility in Washington, and she spotlighted what is wrong with the Democrats’ approach to national security.
The spectacle of Pelosi making nice with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in Damascus and accepting at face value his claim that he is ready to “resume the peace process” with Israel had a large portion of official Washington tittering.
At the same time, Syrian authorities were telling the local press that there had been no change in its position. And Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Pelosi that “a number of Senate and House members who recently visited Damascus received the impression that despite the declarations of Bashar al-Assad, there is no change in the position of his country regarding a possible peace process with Israel.”
Pelosi’s Charade
Moreover, Pelosi misrepresented Israel’s position to Assad, announcing that she had delivered a message from Olmert that “Israel was ready to engage in peace talks” with Syria. Olmert quickly issued a statement denying that.
Even the Washington Post saw through the charade.
“Ms. Pelosi not only misrepresented Israel’s position, but was virtually alone in failing to discern that Mr. Assad’s words were mere propaganda,” an editorial in the paper said. The editorial added that “Ms. Pelosi’s attempt to establish a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish.”
While that is certainly true, the specter of Pelosi naively chatting with Assad and announcing that she had helped achieve a diplomatic breakthrough also highlights all that is wrong with the Democrats’ approach to foreign police today.
Syria hosts the exiled leadership of Hamas, as well as other Palestinian radical groups, and is a major supplier of funds to Hezbollah.
Syria is also believed to be involved in the assassination of Lebanese political figures and allowing its territory to be used by jihadists fighting against the United States-led coalition and the coalition-backed government in Iraq.
History Repeats
Pelosi’s willingness to undercut the president and accept the word of the chief of state of a sponsor of terrorism is on a par with the Democrats’ effort to set a timetable for fighting the war in Iraq.
It brings to mind the efforts of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the Kennedy dynasty, to appease Adolf Hitler.
As ambassador to the Court of St. James, Joe Kennedy met on June 13, 1938 with Herbert von Dirksen, the German ambassador. The two got along famously, and Dirksen later reported on the conversation in great detail to Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker, the German state secretary.
According to that report, Kennedy confided to the German ambassador that Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister, was anxious to have some sort of settlement with Germany.
By saying this, he undercut Great Britain’s negotiating position with Hitler. Moreover, Kennedy said President Roosevelt was not anti-German and wanted friendly relations with Hitler. However, no European leader spoke well of the Germans because most of them were “afraid of the Jews” and did not “dare to say anything good about Germany . . .” Kennedy stated.
Even as the two met at the German embassy in London, Hitler was planning to gobble up most of Europe and exterminate the Jews. The following year, World War II began after Hitler invaded Poland.
“Speaker Pelosi is the Neville Chamberlain of our time,” said Brad Blakeman, a Republican strategist who was an aide in the Bush White House. “Cowering to and appeasing the dictator of a terrorist state was a disgrace to the high office she holds. The Syrians used this visit to validate their bad behavior by propagandizing the whole visit and her anti-war stance.”
The Pelosi visit underscores that, when it comes to dealing with our enemies, the Democrats live in a dream world.
Yet when another terrorist attack occurs in the U.S., they will be the first to say President Bush did not do enough to protect the country.
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