Within a few days of my first piece on this blog, “Why History is Important,” I received my December 7, 2009 issue of “The Weekly Standard” magazine. Upon opening the magazine I found a story written by a German political scientist, Matthias Küntzel, titled “Obama’s Search for Peace in Our Time.” The article is an uncanny comparison to what I discussed in “Why History is Important” and why we will repeat history rather than learn from it. It looks like President Obama either has not studied history, or has failed to learn from it. Click on the link above to read this important article.
The Küntzel piece details the history of how the “5 +1” powers, France, Britain, China, Russia + Germany and the United States have appeased Iran for the last 10 years and how the Iranians have played the “5+1” powers like a champion yoyo player rocks the baby. Küntzel is especially hard on his own country, Germany, on how they have impeded any sanctions for their friends, the Iranians.
Just when the Europeans were tired of Iran’s intransigence and wished to start meaningful sanctions, the United States got a new President, Barack Obama, who’s strategy is to appease, be nice, apologize and twist himself into a pretzel just to gain favor with the Iranian thugs and world opinion. To quote Küntzel: “Whereas George Bush denounced the Islamism of the Iranian regime, his successor attempts to ingratiate himself by offering compliments and apologies. Whereas before it was the Europeans who packaged their failures as successful “dialogue,” now it is Washington that does it.” This is no surprise since Obama campaigned on the promise of being anti-war, anti-Bush and so convinced of his ability to convince anybody that he will hold out till hell freezes over for negotiating with Iran to stop their nuclear program. As with our friends and neighbors, some people will never learn; the only problem is that when the leader of the strongest nation in the world does it, we will pay a heavy price.
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