WWII run-up distorted

The letters in the April 4 Spokesman-Review are all worth a debate. However, the letter from Ralph Ginorio is a total distortion of facts to make his point that President Barack Obama is doing the wrong thing with Iran.

It is true that appeasement does not work in the long term. However, Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at appeasement with Adolf Hitler had another aspect that was of greater importance than sucking up to this evil man.

Britain was not geared up for any war at the time, so Chamberlain had to devise a method of delaying the inevitable to enable Britain to prepare for this war. It worked.

It is stupid to say that Russia and Czechoslovakia would have been allies of Britain if the war had started in 1938. God forbid.

Some of Ginorio’s assertions are pure bunk. Hitler made the mistake of following what Napoleon Bonaparte tried to do, and failed. The Czechoslovakians were not erased from the map, they came back to be the same country it was before the war.

I, like many others, do not trust the Iranians, nor should we, but at this time blasting them to kingdom come is not the answer.

Obama and his administration are in a learning period as to how you deal with this country. No one has been able to do that in history. I say, stop Obama-bashing and learn the truth.

Barrie Waller

Spokane