SOUTH DAKOTA STRAIGHT TALK

This morning it was announced that President Obama will receive the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Shocking! For What? The President  has made a couple of speeches, one in Cairo and you might count the one at the United Nations a couple of weeks ago. What has the President done to promote peace. Not said, Done!.

What he is in the process of doing with his notion of cooperation without any concessions or preconditions is ceding the United States' role as superpower to committees of others whose primary interest is not the security of our nation and its people.  

I learned from Mr. Gire, my tenth grade World History teacher that we should study and learn from history, as history repeats itself. The diplomatic path we are following is the Neville Chamberlain “Peace in Our Time” road to peace.

For those who perhaps don't understand the reference, following is a brief synopsis from Eurodocs.

The following is the wording of a printed statement that Neville Chamberlain waved as he stepped off the plane on 30 September, 1938 after the Munich Conference had ended the day before:

"We, the German Führer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister, have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe.
We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German Naval Agreement as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again. We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe."

Chamberlain read the above statement in front of 10 Downing St. and said:

"My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour.   I believe it is peace for our time...
Go home and get a nice quiet sleep."