Appeasement and History

About two years ago I went back and reread the chapter “The Road to War” in the book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich which is about 450 pages. Even being a World War II historian, I was surprised at how much I had forgotten or had been misled by revisionist history over the years. The rhetoric and appeasement towards Iran nears in many ways the rhetoric and appeasement to Germany in the 1930s. We say it is different now because Iran does not have a large military-industrial complex like Germany did, but we forget the atomic bomb is the great equalizer much as the colt revolver was in the old West. We lost about 450,000 soldiers in World War II, but one or two atomic bombs can easily equal or surpass that amount in a few seconds. It is unbelievable to me that nothing is being done to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to tyrannical dictatorships with most people now believing that nuclear war of some kind is inevitable in the next 10 to 30 years. If nothing is done then our populace is to blame for not demanding that tyrannical dictatorships do not have the atomic bomb. History has rarely been kind to the appeasers. Larry