Times seldom change. History gives us examples and when they are ignored, the results are devastating. The idea that tyrants can be peacefully dealt with is as false today as it has always been. What we are experiencing today is reminiscent of 1939, and just as dangerous.
After the First World War, on November 8 and 9, 1923, a German activist, Adolf Hitler, was arrested in what came to be known as the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to seize the government of Germany by revolution. The putsch failed. Hitler was imprisoned.
During his incarceration he wrote a book, Mein Kampf, or My Battle. In it he laid out the plan for the Third Reich, a Germany which he would control, and which under his control would take over, literally, the world. Mein Kampf detailed the plan of aggression, concentration camps, methods to terrorize and subject nations to Nazi tyranny. On January 30, 1933, he was elected Chancellor of Germany. On March 23 that year Hitler assumed total control and became dictator of Germany.
By September of 1938 Germany was an armed nation which was threatening war in Europe. Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Britain, met with Hitler in Munich and came to an agreement. Germany would be given the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in return for peace. The Czechoslovakians were not included in the discussions. On September 29, 1938, Nevelle Chamberlain stood on the steps of Number Ten Downing Street, the residence of the Prime Minister, and read the following statement:
"We, the German Fuhrer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe. We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again. We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.” He concluded by saying, "My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep."
In March of 1939, the German army entered Czechoslovakia and occupied the rest of the country. This was the start of the deadliest war in history. When the war ended six years later, deaths, military and civilian, exceeded seventy million, some calculations exceeding seventy eight million. No country in the world was untouched.
Hitler’s plans, all of them, were no secret. They were carefully spelled out in Mein Kampf. But nobody listened. Nothing was done to stop the rearming of Germany. No one believed the stories of death camps. Nobody expressed concern about the organized massacre of Jews. Hitler was not challenged until his armies were moving across Europe. Then it was too late.
There is a lesson to be learned from this. Aggression is not deterred by appeasement, trying to understand motives behind it, reaching out to establish a dialogue. Motives should be judged by actions, not words. The adage, if it quacks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it looks like a duck, then it must be a duck, applies to aggressors regardless of nationality, religion, race, or politics. Today, those aggressors are Muslims and they want to destroy our country, economy, liberty, our very lives.
That not all Muslims are against the western world is certainly a truism. In the Second World War not all Germans were against the United States, nor were all the Italians, or Japanese. But fight they did and they almost won. It is a deadly miscalculation to believe that only a minority of Muslims are attacking our country. It is a fallacy to think that Muslims do not believe that Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and others are infidels and must be destroyed.
It is insanity to believe that they can be reasoned with and through negotiation their war against our culture can be ended. We are in a war of cultures. We are at risk on a daily basis and may not survive unless we realize that the attacks on the United States, and other non-Muslim nations, are not attacks by random individuals. We are involved in a holy war. The Muslim leaders make no secret about their aims. Our problem is that we don’t listen. We don’t hear them when they preach that the Koran dictates that all true believers of Islam are bound to kill the infidel.
Understand what is happening. It was no random act which destroyed the Twin Towers and killed three thousand more people than the Japanese killed at Pearl Harbor. Understand that this is the same group who tried earlier to destroy the Twin Towers, who killed hundreds of US Marines in their barracks in the Mideast, who blew up the USS Cole, who laid hostage to US embassy staffs, who cheered as they hung American dead from bridges in Iraq, who beheaded US servicemen and showed the executions on television.
The time for appeasement is over, long over. The myth that terrorists can be negotiated with should be discarded for the realization that negotiations are only successful if both sides already agree. Ignoring the acts of Muslim terrorists, forgiving the carnage predicated by Islam teachings, apologizing for retribution against those who kill our citizenry, is prelude to surrender and defeat.
We are in a fight for our very lives. If we don’t become aggressive in the defense of our country, we will surely lose that fight.
After the First World War, on November 8 and 9, 1923, a German activist, Adolf Hitler, was arrested in what came to be known as the Munich Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to seize the government of Germany by revolution. The putsch failed. Hitler was imprisoned.
During his incarceration he wrote a book, Mein Kampf, or My Battle. In it he laid out the plan for the Third Reich, a Germany which he would control, and which under his control would take over, literally, the world. Mein Kampf detailed the plan of aggression, concentration camps, methods to terrorize and subject nations to Nazi tyranny. On January 30, 1933, he was elected Chancellor of Germany. On March 23 that year Hitler assumed total control and became dictator of Germany.
By September of 1938 Germany was an armed nation which was threatening war in Europe. Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Britain, met with Hitler in Munich and came to an agreement. Germany would be given the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia in return for peace. The Czechoslovakians were not included in the discussions. On September 29, 1938, Nevelle Chamberlain stood on the steps of Number Ten Downing Street, the residence of the Prime Minister, and read the following statement:
"We, the German Fuhrer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe. We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again. We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.” He concluded by saying, "My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep."
In March of 1939, the German army entered Czechoslovakia and occupied the rest of the country. This was the start of the deadliest war in history. When the war ended six years later, deaths, military and civilian, exceeded seventy million, some calculations exceeding seventy eight million. No country in the world was untouched.
Hitler’s plans, all of them, were no secret. They were carefully spelled out in Mein Kampf. But nobody listened. Nothing was done to stop the rearming of Germany. No one believed the stories of death camps. Nobody expressed concern about the organized massacre of Jews. Hitler was not challenged until his armies were moving across Europe. Then it was too late.
There is a lesson to be learned from this. Aggression is not deterred by appeasement, trying to understand motives behind it, reaching out to establish a dialogue. Motives should be judged by actions, not words. The adage, if it quacks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, if it looks like a duck, then it must be a duck, applies to aggressors regardless of nationality, religion, race, or politics. Today, those aggressors are Muslims and they want to destroy our country, economy, liberty, our very lives.
That not all Muslims are against the western world is certainly a truism. In the Second World War not all Germans were against the United States, nor were all the Italians, or Japanese. But fight they did and they almost won. It is a deadly miscalculation to believe that only a minority of Muslims are attacking our country. It is a fallacy to think that Muslims do not believe that Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and others are infidels and must be destroyed.
It is insanity to believe that they can be reasoned with and through negotiation their war against our culture can be ended. We are in a war of cultures. We are at risk on a daily basis and may not survive unless we realize that the attacks on the United States, and other non-Muslim nations, are not attacks by random individuals. We are involved in a holy war. The Muslim leaders make no secret about their aims. Our problem is that we don’t listen. We don’t hear them when they preach that the Koran dictates that all true believers of Islam are bound to kill the infidel.
Understand what is happening. It was no random act which destroyed the Twin Towers and killed three thousand more people than the Japanese killed at Pearl Harbor. Understand that this is the same group who tried earlier to destroy the Twin Towers, who killed hundreds of US Marines in their barracks in the Mideast, who blew up the USS Cole, who laid hostage to US embassy staffs, who cheered as they hung American dead from bridges in Iraq, who beheaded US servicemen and showed the executions on television.
The time for appeasement is over, long over. The myth that terrorists can be negotiated with should be discarded for the realization that negotiations are only successful if both sides already agree. Ignoring the acts of Muslim terrorists, forgiving the carnage predicated by Islam teachings, apologizing for retribution against those who kill our citizenry, is prelude to surrender and defeat.
We are in a fight for our very lives. If we don’t become aggressive in the defense of our country, we will surely lose that fight.
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