Posted by
Mike on Friday, January 16, 2009 2:55:29 AM
Before the outbreak of the Second World War, the British Prime Minister met with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler to try to work out a settlement regarding German aspirations to unite the German speaking people of central Europe. England essentially acceded to Germany's demands to annex the Sudetenland and to relinquish the Baltic port of Danzig, all the while offering Poland guarantees of protection from German invasion. I am one who believes that Europe could have stopped the Nazi rise to power had there been the necessary moral resolve to do so.
Over the last several decades, America has been engaged in another form of shameful appeasement. The intellectuals have surrendered our most basic Christian values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for a utopian dream of multiculturalism summed up in the rhetorical question of an African American in Los Angeles arrested while intoxicated, "Can't we just all get along?". As with Naziism before, this modern liberal appeasement taking the forms of racial quotas, affirmative action, equal opportunity, sexual irresponsibility, homosexual marriage, and animal rights, is doomed from the start.
Why is this so?
The European interregnum truce was unjust to begin with, and based upon false premises. This gave Hitler the upper hand in making unrealistic demands for German unification based upon Woodrow Wilson's idealistic vision of self-determination. Justice does not require that all peoples speaking the same language in a given area be under the same umbrella, as Wilson prescribed. A better approach was that of Metternich a century before, incorporating the traditional criteria of national legitimacy. But because the settlement was built upon a sand foundation and stacked against Austria, Hungary and Germany, Hitler could easily appear creditable.
As England's appeasement gave way to the German invasion of Poland, so too the American appeasement will bring about economic dislocation. This of course will have a global effect. America will become socialist first. The world will be governed by secular standards divorced from God. Within the coming decades, socialist America will not be able to economically withstand severe natural disasters. Europe and the Russian federation will break up. The United Nations will crumble. A new form of economic organization will give birth out of the ashes of history. America's destiny will insure peace and justice with respect to a separate Palestinian state and an Israeli state, with Jerusalem to become an international city of pilgrimage open to all people of good will.