Foehammer’s Anvil

Now that the French are warning the world that Iran has ill-intent for its nuclear program, we should take note of the eerie similarities once again to the past. From the BBC:

But Mr Douste-Blazy said Iran was being disingenuous.

“No civil nuclear programme can explain the Iranian nuclear programme. It is a clandestine military nuclear programme,” he said.

“The international community has sent a very strong message to the Iranians - show reason, suspend all nuclear activities and uranium enrichment. And they’re not listening to us.”

“That is the reason why, for the first time for days, the international community is united. It’s not just the Europeans - France, Germany and the British - it’s also Russia and China.”

Compare these events now to 1934:

British Winston Churchill writes in Collier’s magazine: “[Germans] are looking for weapons and when they have these weapons believe me they will then ask for the return of lost territories and colonies, and when that demand is made, it cannot fail to shake and possibly shatter to their foundations Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Rumania, and other countries.”.

So, voices are now being raised, but unlike 1934, I think the world is listening this time. Let us hope, because one need only replace a few words from the 1934 quote and you would get this:

Iranians are looking for nuclear weapons and when they have these weapons believe me they will then ask for the return of lost territories and colonies, and when that demand is made, it cannot fail to shake and possibly shatter to their foundations Israel, the United States and other countries.

Thank you, Sir Winston.

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