PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH
By Maj. Gen. Jerry R. Curry (ret'd)
CurryforAmerica.com
An
excellent example of what happens when a world power adopts a weak defense
policy is the
United Kingdom
in the 1930s when Hitler was rising to power. As Prime Minister of
Great Britain,
Chamberlain was so determined to keep
England
out of war with
Germany
that he adopted a policy of appeasement, negotiation and sanctions, not unlike
the foreign policy which President Obama has adopted.
In his
excellent book on Churchill William
Manchester
wrote, “The anesthetic effect of German promises to negotiate in these years was
extraordinary. Hitler never negotiated. He lied, he bluffed, he blackmailed, but
serious negotiation was a skill he despised, a refuge for weaklings.”
So it is
today. Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, despises Obama and the
United States of America
and has no intention of honorably negotiating with us. But Obama is a slow
learner and keeps holding out “unclenched fists” to Ahmadinejad who, in turn,
spits on them.
On
Oct 3, 1938,
Duff Cooper, a member of the British Parliament said of Chamberlain that,
“Chamberlain believed in addressing Herr Hitler through the language of ‘sweet
reasonableness.’ I have believed that he was more open to the language of the
mailed fist … we have taken away the defenses of Czechoslovakia in the same
breath as we have guaranteed them.”
That is
what the
United States
has done. We have taken away the missile defenses of
Poland,
Ukraine
and
Eastern Europe
and, at the same time, we have told them that they can count on
America’s
missile protection.
Both
Chamberlain and Obama emphasize diplomacy over confrontation. As a result
Chamberlain got WWII and Obama, most likely, will stumble into a Middle-East
War. If Obama cannot contain
Iran
now while it’s non-nuclear, what chance does he have of containing
Iran
after it becomes a nuclear power?
The “gathering storm” of WWII,
as Churchill called it, “became apparent to British men in bars, women pushing
baby carriages, shelf stackers in supermarkets, taxi drivers, businessmen, union
shop stewards; to everyone, in short, (it became obvious) except to the
oligarchy in power.”
That very same saga is being repeated today in our country,
mechanics, fire fighters, hair dressers, clerks, airline pilots, Tea Party
members (I Prefer to call them “TEA SIPPERS”) and many other good, solid
Americans are telling Obama’s Government that enough is enough and
it’s time to “Wake up and smell the coffee!” But the
Obama Administration, in its shabby first year, has been oblivious to the will
of the American people.
Much to
Obama’s chagrin,
America
is still the greatest nation on the face of the earth. Without its leadership,
the free world and western civilization – as we know it today -- will collapse.
For if the
US
doesn’t lead the free world, who will:
Russia,
China,
Hugo Chavez?
This
brings us full circle as to why the
United States of America,
the world’s only super power, must maintain its military prowess.
It is because, as history has rudely taught us,
peace can only be secured and maintained through strength. Ironically, the
greatest contributor to peace is a war-ready military.
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