The award of the Nobel Piece Prize to President Barack Obama based on his stated lofty goals of peace and a new era of global security is reminiscence of Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Britain, who in June 1938 returned to Great Britain waiving a copy of the Munich Agreement and declaring “peace in our time.” At Hitler’s demand, that agreement required Czechoslovakia to give up a fifth of its land and most of its industrial base to Nazi Germany; yet it also provided western Europe, principally England and France, a respite from its fears of German rearmament.
As we know, 15 months later Nazi Germany invaded Poland which initiated World War II.
Peace and security is attained by either enforceable treaties and security pacts, a strong military, or a combination of both; not just lofty visions and goals.
Roger Reynolds
Abingdon Va.
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