Peace For Our Time

“Peace for our time" was a declaration made by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in September 1938 after meeting with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler concerning his demands for Czechoslovakia to cede a portion of its territory known as the Sudetenland to Germany. In return, Hitler assured the Western Allies that he had no further territorial ambitions. Six months later Germany seized all of Czechoslovakia, making Neville’s words ring hallow.

Fast forward to the present.  The usual suspects are already comparing the “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) signed with the Iranians to Chamberlain’s 1938 declaration.  The critics are like howling wolves, relishing what they perceive as weakness by President Trump.  Some have declared the Iranians as the real winners of the conflict. What complete bunk.

The legacy media’s vitriolic hate for Trump is intense. An old parable that has circulated for years is one that states, President Trump walked across the Potomac River and the Washington Post headlined, “Trump Cannot Swim”. The reportage is so disingenuous that it borders on criminal. The lionization of the deal that Obama crafted with the Iranians is a prime example of their coverage malfeasance. If it was so great, why did the Iranians continued to refine and weaponize their uranium to nuclear weapons quality? Tell us Barack.

Claiming that the waxen effigy figure who masqueraded as a President, Joe Biden, kept the Iranians in check is laughable. The invisible hands that were actually running the government continued to enable the Iranians to pursue their nuclear ambitions unabated. These same “enablers” did nothing about the continued terror network that was directly sponsoring attacks on American assets in the Middle East. The press failed to report any of this, as they were too busy covering up President Biden’s cognitive decline.

President Trump read the tea leaves when he began his second term.  The CIA and other foreign intelligence agencies briefed him on the rapid development of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. They were closing in on the ability to produce an atomic bomb and Trump acted.  B-2 bombers took out the main production facilities in precision strikes. Unfortunately, that did not end Iranian nuclear aspirations, it only set them back. That necessitated more attacks that began in February.

President Trump also knew that there is only one model in history that will completely defeat a threat, the one we ran on Germany and Japan in World War II. That is total defeat, occupation, and dismantling the apparatus of leadership. He knew that Americans didn’t have the stomach for another full-scale Middle East war. As a result, the might of American military air power coupled with our Israeli ally, crippled the Iranian armed forces and their economy, driving them to sign the MOU.

This is not a soft nor hopeful peace, not a trusting peace, but for this agreement to work it must be a ruthless peace. Because we won't fight a ruthless war then we must have ruthless peace enforced with consequences. That’s why President Trump stated that if they won’t negotiate in good faith and comply with specific points, then he’ll take very specific action.

In his press conference after the G7 meeting in France he said the following if the Iranians don’t honor the deal, “What else am I going to do? Am I going to say, I’m going to take you to court? Let me just sue you? No. We’re gonna bomb the hell out of them if they violate the agreement.” 

That’s ruthless peace, no trust without verification of compliance. Giving peace a chance for at least 60 days while final points are agreed to. For 60 days Iran can sell oil. They have promised that they’re going to get rid of all fissionable material, get rid of all their centrifuges and set up an inspection protocol so they can be double checked.  

Everyone knows that the Iranians are as trustworthy as gas station sushi. Already the new Ayatollah is stating that he will not agree to “excessive” demands and stalling negotiations.

In this case, jacking the President of the United States around is not good strategy.

Donald Trump is not Neville Chamberlain.