On December 24, 1940 – Christmas Eve – Gandhi wrote again to his “dear friend.” Gandhi began a longer plea for peace with the following language Obama could probably adopt (with an age modification) as expressing the goals that won him an early Nobel Peace Prize:
“That I address you as a friend is no formality. I own no foes. My business in life has been for the past 33 years to enlist the friendship of the whole of humanity by befriending mankind, irrespective of race, colour or creed.”
Gandhi went on to tell Hitler – this while much of Europe was confronting Hitler in a life-or-death struggle – that “a good portion of humanity” had no doubt “about your bravery or devotion to your fatherland, nor do we believe that you are the monster described by your opponents.” Citing his own policy of non-violent resistance, Gandhi asked Hitler, in the spirit of the season of the year, “to make an effort for peace during a time which may mean nothing to you personally but which must mean much to the millions of Europeans whose dumb cry for peace I hear, for my ears are attended to hearing the dumb millions.”
Obama’s current attitude toward evildoers such as the government of Iran – which still persists in calling for death to the United States and to Israel and which endorses and finances murder and terror throughout the world – echoes Gandhi’s fatuous and muddleheaded pleas to his “friend” Hitler in 1939 and 1940.
Congress, the American public, and world opinion must protect Western civilization against consequences of a foreign policy based on wishful thinking and Gandhi-style naiveté. History hopefully will view Obama, as it now views Gandhi, as no more than a foolhardy dreamer.