THE LESSONS OF HISTORY REPEAT THEMSELVES

Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano

The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. 

Chamberlain: Peace in our time

The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe, excluding the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Germany. 

The agreement was signed in the early hours of 30 September 1938 (but dated 29 September). The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future of the Sudetenland in the face of ethnic demands made by Adolf Hitler. The agreement was signed by Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Sudetenland was of immense strategic importance to Czechoslovakia, as most of its border defenses were situated there, and many of its banks and heavy industries were located there as well.

Because the state of Czechoslovakia was not invited to the conference, it considered itself to have been betrayed by the United Kingdom and France, so Czechs and Slovaks call the Munich Agreement the Munich Dictate (Czech: Mnichovský diktát; Slovak: Mníchovský diktát). The phrase "Munich Betrayal" (Czech: Mnichovská zrada; Slovak: Mníchovská zrada) is also used because the military alliance Czechoslovakia had with France and Britain proved useless. Today the document is typically referred to simply as the Munich Pact (Mnichovská dohoda).

********************************************************************************************************AS SANTAYANA ONCE SAID...IF YOU FORGET ABOUT THE LESSONS THAT HISTORY GIVES US...YOU WILL BE DOOMED TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES...

NOW PRES. HUSSEIN OBAMA IS ABOUT TO MAKE A DEAL WITH IRAN, IN WHICH IRAN WILL GET EVERYTHING IT HAS ALWAYS WANTED...AND THEN SOME MORE. 

IT WILL BE A GREATER THREAT TO ISRAEL THAN EVER...JUST AS THE ORIGINAL AGREEMENT IN MUNICH WAS DANGEROUS FOR CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

AND HUSSEIN OBAMA WILL WAVE A LITTLE PIECE OF PAPER ABOUT PEACE IN OUR TIME.  NOT BAD FOR AN UPSTART COMMUNITY ORGANIZER, JUNIOR SENATOR FOR ILLINOIS, OF DUBIOUS RELIGIOUS AFFILIATIONS, BORN IN GOD KNOW WHERE, WITH A DANGEROUS POLITICAL AGENDA...WHO WILL SELL AN ALLY DOWN THE RIVER FOR PRACTICALLY NOTHING...

I SOMETIMES FEEL AS CASSANDRA MUST HAVE FELT STARING DOWN AT THE COMBINED ARMIES OF GREECE FROM THE WALLS OF TROY...