Extract
I fear that we are watching an ostentation of neo-Neville Chamberlains peacocking their way around the world these days, seeking new Munich Agreements that will promise "peace in our time," agreements that, if made, will be repudiated, or simply ignored, by the neo-Hitlers and neo-Mussolinis of neo-Nazi Jihadism with whom we shall make them. Like Chamberlain and the Members of Parliament who shouted down Churchill, our leadership seems to be desperately seeking refuge, however temporary and illusory, from the thunderstorms of war gathering on the near horizon. Groveling for peace, the national leaders of America and Israel seem to be begging their enemies for "peace in our time," rather than acknowledging and acting upon the obvious, or what should be the obvious, that "peace in our time" can only be secured by maintaining - and asserting - both the ability and the will to inflict a decisive and devastating defeat on any enemy.
Why do Americans, Europeans, Israelis, keep electing to high office these apparently altruistic people who seem to suffer the Neville Chamberlain syndrome, the willful delusion that the leaders of the Jihadist world, like us, want peace? Why does our leadership seem to assume that that everyone wants peace? That because we want peace, America, Israel, Europe, therefore Abbas and Ahmadinejad must also want peace? It is an immutable law of history that wars begin when one country or alliance wants war, conquest, and the countries in their cross-hairs fail and refuse to acknowledge that no matter how badly they want peace, the dogs of war will find them.
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