Ron Paul - A Modern Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Germany. When Adolf Hitler continued his aggression by invading Poland, Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and Chamberlain led Britain through the first eight months of the Second World War.

Even though Chamberlain did see Hitler as dangerous, his policy assumed that Hitler was able to be contained and his aggression appeased by offerings of land owned by others. Is any of this sounding familiar? No? It will.

In spite of the Munich Agreement, the deal offered by Chamberlain to halt Hitler's aggression, the result simply empowered Hitler with the assumption that no one had the strength of character to stop him. In fact, when Hitler instructed his generals to prepare for an invasion of Poland, he told them, "Our enemies are small worms. I saw them at Munich." Any of this sounding familiar yet?

Ron Paul is dangerously close to this platform on Iran. Recently the Iranian government has made it perfectly clear that Israel is targeted for destruction. Yet Ron Paul is not concerned about this as far as American interests are related. Just as Neville Chamberlain was willing to hand entire regions of land to a tyrant, it seems Ron Paul is also willing to hand Israel over to the Persian thugs and ignore the fact that she is surrounded by her enemies. Add to this the cozy relationship Paul has with Russia, a friend of Iran in both trade and security council votes, and we see very similar attitudes toward dictatorships and threats from a afar. In fact, in this video, Ron Paul seemingly blames Israel for all of the problems in the Middle East.

Finally it should also be noted that Neville Chamberlain was a Christian. He invoked the safety and power of almighty God in many of his speeches. When war was finally declared on Germany after Hitler had already made considerable advances, taken much of Europe, and secured Sweden's Iron for weapons, Chamberlain said the following:

"Now may God bless you all. May He defend the right. It is the evil things we shall be fighting against—brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression, and persecution—and against them I am certain that the right will prevail"

Making the argument that Ron Paul is a "Christian" is meaningless in this debate. He's an isolationist; an appeaser. Like Chamberlain, Ron Paul would turn a blind eye to the evils in the world. He fails to see the transcendental reason God has given the eagle such strength. He would clip her wings and create a vacuum that would suck in all manner of depravity and tyranny. He would see the bulwark against a world-wide Islamic caliphate crumble and sanction the rise of a new Hitler. Ron Paul lacks the vision required to lead America. May God bless America by keeping him out of office.