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The Gathering Storm over Iran
(Boston Globe) Nile Gardiner and Joseph Loconte - * In October 1938, in the heat of the crisis over German intervention in Czechoslovakia, Winston Churchill asked: ''Does anyone pretend that preparation for resistance to aggression is unleashing war?...I declare it to be the sole guarantee of peace." * The Allies were not prepared to resist German aggression at that crucial moment. The result was a policy of appeasement - the infamous Munich Agreement - which abandoned Czechoslovakia into Nazi hands. * In the current standoff with Iran, the West is approaching what can fairly be described as another Munich moment. An Islamo-fascist regime is apparently determined to acquire nuclear weapons, destroy Israel, and extend its radical ideology. * What should the U.S. do to avoid another Munich? If the Security Council fails to confront the Iranian threat, America must form an international coalition to disarm the regime, enforcing a range of targeted political and economic sanctions. It must place the potential use of force squarely on the table. Nile Gardiner is a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former aide to Margaret Thatcher. Joseph Loconte is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.