Iran pact ignores lessons of history
Sometimes we have to believe that bad people are honest or we will perish in their onslaught.
In 1924 Adolf Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf." A few of my father's contemporaries read it and shrugged it off as the rambling of a madman. In 1933, Hitler assumed total power in Germany and started instituting all he had written about with unprecedented speed.
I was born in and grew up in the Nazi-occupied country of Denmark. The Danish people finally had enough and grew one of the most efficient underground fighting movements in Europe.
Why will the West not believe - when the text is shoved right in their face? Why will Angela Merkel not believe? Why will Barack Obama not believe? Is their middle name really "Chamberlain"?
The so-called "Islamic State" is telling us, and showing us, all they want to do. Why will we not believe?
Peter Orum
St. Charles