OPINION:
In the aftermath of World War I, the Allies had significant disagreement about whether Germany should be governmentally divided. It was not.
Later, Adolf Hitler, with a unified Germany, built his war machine. Had the idea to divide Germany after World War I been adopted, Hitler never would have been able to work the devil’s evil mischief on the humongous scale that he did.
The world paid a dear price for rejecting the wisdom to divide Germany after the “Great War.” We had succeeded in decapitating the snake (Germany), just as we have succeeded in the present, decapitating the terrorist snake (Iran), but snakes of war can grow new heads (new Hitlers) or new evil, fanatical, religious clerics (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei).
At the close of World War II, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, learning from history, spearheaded a plan to divide Germany. The world wound up with West Germany and East Germany.
Ideas can be powerful, if they are the right ones. The right idea in 1945 turned a world enemy, Hitler’s Germany, into a friend.
After Hitler committed suicide in his bunker, we did not “negotiate” with his surviving henchmen; we put them on trial. I proffer that it is futile to attempt to negotiate with what is left of Khamenei’s henchmen. They should be tried by a collective governmental authority of the Gulf State allies.
We should divide the land mass within the border of what was known as Iran between the allies in Epic Fury. They should be the ones to decide collectively on the trial of the surviving Khamenei henchmen.
MARTIN PALMER
Hagerstown, Maryland
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