There is the old saying: What does not kill me will make me
stronger. If you do not believe this is true, just look around, see what's
there, and marvel at the wisdom of those who first uttered that saying. To be
sure, you will not have to go too far for a list of where to look because Josef
Joffe is offering you one.
He wrote an article under the title: “Exploiting Obama's
Foreign Policy Retreat” and the subtitle: “Why did Vladimir Putin thumb his
nose at the U.S.
in the Snowden affair? Because he could.” It was published in the Wall Street
Journal on August 5, 2013.
Having told you in the title that the article is about the
consequences of Obama's retreat, Joffe wants you to know that you must not take
him seriously because he is only clowning around. He tells you this in the
first paragraph with these words: “Washington
is now looking at the greatest counterintelligence failure since the Rosenbergs betrayed
nuclear know-how to Stalin some 60 years ago.” Do you realize what he means by
that, my friend? He means to say that this sort of thing has been happening
since before Obama was born, and so you cannot fault him for that.
Now you want to know what else Joffe is doing to entertain
you? Well, what he did was make a list of the things he dislikes about Mr.
Obama's decisions, then summed it all up like this: “Mr. Obama's America seems
to be withdrawing from the great-power table in favor of 'nation-building at
home.'” Why is this a bad thing in his eyes? you ask. You look for an answer
and find it in his writing. He says this: “Putin has it in his hands to
endlessly embarrass the U.S.
by releasing choice bits and pieces from the Snowden trove, or threaten to do
so.” Does that mean Obama must abandon nation building at home and … and do
what?
Joffe answers that question by telling you not what Obama
must do but what he must not do. Here is how he put it: “Traditionally, the
might of nations was hemmed in by others in an endless game of pressure and
counter-pressure. Now, the reigning superpower is proposing to neutralize
itself – no foes needed.” And this is where you decide you must pause for a
minute to assimilate what he has given you so far.
He says that Russia 's
Putin has a way to endlessly embarrass America or threaten to do so.
That's putting pressure, alright. But why is it that Russia can play this game now –
whether or not Putin will actually play it? Is it not true that Russia is the offshoot of the Soviet
Union ; the one that pulled back when it realized it was preferable
not to play a game it cannot win? Yes, this is that same Russia, but having
done nation-building at home, and having regained its strength at a time when
America was weakening, why not assert itself now and reclaim its old glory?
This is what Putin is doing for his country. No more and no less.
The Russians knew when to withdraw and when to stand up for
their right. This is wisdom; it is what gave Putin the excellent hand with
which to play the game the way he is playing it now. Just imagine what would
have happened if Gorbachev or Yeltsin had tried to play the game when Russia was at
its weakest point. Well, my friend, this is what Joffe and all those like him
are trying to have President Obama do. They want him to play a hand that is so lousy,
he will make America
fall flat on its face.
In a sense Putin is a lucky man because there are no Joffes
to bark in Russia the way
that he and the other Jews do in America . This is why Russia grew tall again, and why it is starting
to look up at a time when America 's
nose is being pulled down and rubbed into the Jewish-Israeli mud.
But how exactly did the Jews and Israel
manage to diminish America
this badly this fast? They did it by attacking the people they could not kill,
which made these people grow stronger. Furthermore, given that the Jews and the
Israelis have conflated themselves with the image of America ,
everything they did rubbed on America ,
and dragged it into the mud. This is why no matter how hard Mr. Obama worked to
polish the image of America ;
he could not erase all the Jewish mud off its face.
Joffe complains about Hezbollah, but there was no Hezbollah
before Israel attacked Lebanon ; there
is now. He complains about a nuclear program in Iran ,
but there was no nuclear program – civilian or military – till Israel attacked the civilian station in Iraq , and then
bragged about the ambiguity of a program it may or may not have. Now Iran has a
nuclear program.
These developments are a monument to the failure of the
policies that were advocated by the Jewish lobby in America ,
and pursued by Israel in the
Middle East for more than half a century.
Yet, they are what Joffe and those like him wish to hand to America , and
have it continue the futile struggle of imposing the Jewish will on others. And
they want this done before America
has had the chance to do its own nation-building at home.
In short, these people want America
to abandon doing the self-healing that Russia did successfully for itself.
Instead, they want to see America
pursue the self-defeating policies that made Israel
fail, and made it call on America
to hurry up and come to the rescue.
But who will rescue the rescuer when America