Am I walking in the footsteps of Chamberlain?

I submitted a shortened version of my last blog entry to the Kansas City Star and they published it as a letter to the editor. I was immediately greeted by several personal phone calls and comments to the KC Star blog, unfettered letters, agreeing with my position. I felt that there was hope for this nation yet.

A few days later , the Star published a reply from a fellow that compared my position to Neville Chamberlain. For those too young to remember or who learned their history from public schools, Chamberlain was the British prime minister in 1938. He made a deal with Hitler ceding Poland to Hitler in exchange for peace with England. He came home holding aloft a piece of paper claiming: Peace in our time!!

Obviously that did not work out well. Hitler had already proven himself an aggressor and no promise of his was worth the paper it was written on. On the other hand, between the US and Iraq, it is the US government that is the clear aggressor.

Does admitting that we made a horrible mistake and backing out with the fullest apology we can manage equal appeasement? I think NOT!

Remember that neither the government nor people of Iraq had anything to do with 9-11 and there were no threatening WMDs.

Of course, as long as G. W. Bush is in power, he will never admit to a mistake and the killing will go on. That is why we MUST, to save our nation, impeach and imprison him. Mass killers should not get to retire to a Texas ranch.

The Never Ending War on Terror

Well the terrorists had a new idea and a new way to threaten us. Now, even though they did not get to put their idea into operation, we have new restrictions and new security measures forever more.

Next month or maybe in six months they will come up with still another idea and we will have still more security measures to watch for that. These security measures are cumulative. Pretty soon you will not be able to turn around without a Federal officer approving.

This is just not working. We cannot successfully defend ourselves from our enemies by security measures. We also cannot kill all our potential enemies because we are making new ones at breakneck speed. Every time we kill someone at a checkpoint in Baghdad or Israel kills a Lebanese civilian with our "precision" arms we make enemies of the entire extended family of the victims. We are definitely losing ground in the War on Terror.

We have to stop creating enemies. That means that we must withdraw from Iraq and apologize profusely for invading in the first place. We have to stop supplying weapons to any side in the Arab-Israeli war and pressure both sides for a permanent cease fire. Israel is more likely to agree to that if they are convinced that American armament will no longer be free flowing.

We also better stop believing the President and his minions. "They" do not hate us for our freedoms. "They" hate us for our actions that cost the lives of their compatriots. Tit for Tat is a child's game. It is not for adults who use real guns and real bombs.