Peace in Our Time

Neville Chamberlain came back from a meeting with Hitler, and he told the anxious public after he had given the Sudaten Land, a part of Czeckoslovakia, to the Germans, that he had achieved "Peace in our time" shortly after, Hitler's Germany swallowed the rest of Czeckoslovakia, and half of Poland. Russia made their own pact with Hitler, and Neville Chamberlain was relegated to the rubbish heap of history, a failed politician who resigned from office in England's darkest hour. President Obama is in his second year as president. He has negociated in what he considered good faith with Iran. He has tried to make peace with Castro's Cuba, and Chavez's Venezuela. He has gone to great lengths to distance himself from Bush's policies, even to the point of declaring that there was no longer a war against terrorism. So, like Neville Chamberlain, this president essentially declared peace in his time, and just like Chamberlain, he was hailed as succeeding. A Ford Hood masacre and a failed attempt at exploding a commercial air plane, failed, but not because of anything this administration did, but because of the grit and spunk of other passengers on the plane who prevented the catastrophy, but in effect exploded any myth this administration had of making any difference with their approach to the confrontation that is before us. If anything, what is clear, is our enemies are emboldened due to our inattention to detail. You can say there are no terrorists, that does not make it so. Our president wants to place terrorists on trial in civilian courts, what will happen is this will be a bonanza for trial lawyers, it will ligitimize the terrorists, or it may allow them to walk out of court, declared innocent due to the unabashed responsibility of our courts to treat them fairly and to bar evidence gotten illegally. The Obama administration, after freeing these terrorists will point to our "fairness" to the Moslem countries he wants to impress, and they will be laughing as they redouble their efforts to kill us, with the very soldiers we let go. The recent attempted mass killer, the christmas bomber, has a lawyer, he does not have to testify against himself, he may know things that may allow us to find his friends, but we will never know, because he has a right against self incrimination. Hurray for the judicial process for terrorists. Hurray for a president who apparently needs three days to decide that perhaps his world view requires him to support Iranian students. Perhaps after hearing himself being compared to Bush by Chavez, in terms of a foul odor, perhaps he might reconsider his attempts at reconciliation, or perhaps, like Neville Chamberlain, when things are so screwed up, seemingly beyond repair, he could resign. The biggest problem if Obama did resign, is we'd have Biden, or Pelosi; neither one could be considered Churchill.