I appreciate Marc Clauson’s take on P.M. Netanyahu’s speech to Congress. Let me add just a couple of quick notes.

Netanyahu reminded me of Churchill, which makes Obama too much like Chamberlain. Winston Churchill, as a Member of Parliament before World War 2, thundered in the House of Commons about Hitler’s intentions. He warned the people, and their elected officials, of the impending devastation. Neville Chamberlain was Prime Minister during those dark years. He was convinced that Hitler could be reasoned with. He emerged from one particular negotiation claiming he had secured “peace for our time.” Peace in Chamberlain’s time was brief. In less than a year, Hitler’s blitzkrieg shattered Poland.

Both Churchill and Netanyahu were ignored by the dominant powers because they spoke into a moral void. In Britain, the void was created by World War 1 and the loss of a generation of brave soldiers. The statesmen hoped, Chamberlain chief among them, that another war might be avoided, that the flower of youth may not again have to be sacrificed. Chamberlain believed Hitler was rational and would honor his agreements. He was wrong and Churchill knew it.

Netanyahu spoke into the moral void that surrounds too many Democrats in America today. As in Britain then, the nation is now tired of war. The Democrats have, to an extent, built their party around peace at all costs. Though not excusable, this is at least understandable. Nancy Pelosi was famously driven near to tears at yesterday’s speech, not because of Israel’s plight, but the sharp edges of Netanyahu’s words. Remarkably, I don’t recall her blanching at the actions of Fidel Castro, Syria’s Assad, or North Korea’s Petit Tyrants, but she cannot stomach Bibi Netanyahu rhetoric. This speaks to something more troubling than war fatigue.

President Obama’s, and too many of his own party’s, moral void is also derived from a shriveled equivalence built atop the sandy shores of multiculturalism, a false hope that all people and cultures are equally reasonable. Human beings are equal due to their common Creator, but they are also equally depraved. Their cultures and governments, though, cannot be assumed to be equally viable, friendly, or amenable. I fear that President Obama views himself as negotiating between equal parties–Iran and Israel. I am just waiting for John Kerry, our Secretary of State, to windsurf back from Tehran wagging a piece of paper, claiming he too has secured “Peace for Our Time.”

The difference, of course, is that the Mullahs will not drive tanks into Israel, but they might instead smuggle suitcases full of nuclear material into Tel Aviv and Haifa. Their lightning war may be just as destructive as Hitler’s, but their’s will be over in a blink and before anyone can respond. Why, then, should we be surprised that Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with great fervor? What else should we expect him to do?

Let me close with the hope that President Obama might steer a sharper course toward Israel’s interests and away from Iran. There is still time to bring the full weight of American power to bear on Iran, whether that power is economic or militaristic. President Obama does not have to become this day’s Neville Chamberlain. I pray that he takes Netanyahu’s speech to heart and reconsiders his public and private stances on Iran. If he fails in the this duty, Congress must do all in its power aid Israel.