I have never seen mishmash as messy as this even when I was
teaching a class of some very difficult kids. I am talking about Clifford D.
May's latest installment that came under the title: “The Other Long War” and
the subtitle: “The struggle for democracy and economic reform in the Muslim
world has barely begun.” It was published on October 17, 2013 in National
Review Online.
Think of this piece as an omelet you try to unscramble, to
get the eggs back into the shells, and to render them as whole as when they
were laid by the hen. Thus, mindful of the fact that Clifford May is talking
about a “War for democracy and economic reform,” you trip on a passage near the
end of the article that hits you in the face not like Sinatra's pizza pie (for
this would be amore) but like a baseball bat in the hands of a madman. Here is
the passage: “If we were to pick two economists … what are the chances they'd
agree on what qualifies as a 'good economic decision?'” In other words, May is
saying: Let's launch another war on these people for the love of it, not
knowing what the war is about. These Jews have war in their DNA, and they
cannot exorcize themselves.
What is wrong with this writer is that he does what comes
naturally to the so-called Jewish thinkers who litter the publishing landscape
in the English language. That is, when he decides on a topic, he looks around
to see what will work for the Jews and for Israel at this time. He cherry
picks the quotations that will support his arguments, and constructs a
narrative around them whether or not they contradict each other.
That is how our Jewish “thinker” starts his column. Look at
this introduction: “The Muslim world needs democracy and economic reform – on
that almost everyone agrees.” So you want to know who is the “everyone” he is
talking about. And he says it is Rami Khouri, an Arab whom he quotes as having
said the Arabs spent nearly a century developing themselves and have little to
show for it. He later quotes Tom Friedman who advised that “our job” is to help
the governments over there maximize the good economic decisions they make.
Well, let me tell you something, anyone who looks at the
advice that Friedman gave with regard to the auto industry in America following
the 2008 meltdown, and still believes that this guy can give advice in the
economic field, should run to a psychiatrist and beg to be committed to an
institution before doing more damage to the credibility of the English language
publishing industry. As to what Khouri does; it is that he participates in a
wide ranging debate in the Arab world where they compare the progress made by
the Arab nations against those that developed faster such as the Asian Tigers,
and those that developed more slowly such as everywhere else.
To support his argument further, Clifford May gives a
made-for-the-occasion version of history. He says that while the Ottoman Empire
became wealthy through armed conquest, plunder, and the taxation of subjugated
peoples, the printing press was developed in Europe ,
and this led to modernity. He skips the colonial movement that brought wealth
to the Europeans not only by plunder, taxation and subjugation but also
slavery, mass murder and genocide. And he ignores the fact that all this
happened while – up to the early part of the nineteenth century – the British
navy was commanded by Admirals of the Sea who were totally illiterate. That is
totally illiterate.
May also mentions Daniel S. Landes who wrote that there came
a time when the Muslim world chose to cut itself off from the mainstream of
knowledge. What he does not say is that several of the old empires rejected the
new developments that began elsewhere. Thus, while Japan
embraced the Western developments, China
rejected them – which is why Japan
started to industrialize almost a century before China . But more striking than that
is the fact that modern science as well as the scientific method were developed
by the Arabs, and were taken to Europe in most
part by Jews who were viewed as bearers of Black Magic, and burned alive by the
Europeans. That's worse than the Holocaust where at least, they gassed them
before cremating them.
So why did Clifford May take this approach? He did because
it serves his current purpose. First, there is Turkey
that was the love of Israel
and the Jews but is no more. Second, there is the wealth of the oil rich Arab
countries that are developing as fast as any society can without going through
the sort of mega-deaths that were experienced during say, the Soviet Bolshevik
Revolution or the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
And in the absence of that sort of calamity, you don't have
the dirty waters in which the Jewish organizations love to go fishing. They
look at the wealth that is next door to Israel ; they see all the
development that is happening there and they say to each other and to others,
there is nothing there – by which they mean to say they are getting nothing out
of it.
You know what, my friend; this is the philosophy which says
that if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to witness it, the event
did not occur. To the Jews who believe they are the only ones that count in
this world, if they get nothing out of something, that something remains a
nothing. That's how it is with Turkey
that refuses to reciprocate the love they once had for her. And that's how it
is with the wealth of the Arabs; wealth they look at but are forbidden to
touch.
These people pinned their hopes on the idea of
“democratizing” the Arab and Muslim worlds – which in their view meant to turn
them into bordellos in the style of the American Congress, thus get to own them
like a private washroom. But they soon discovered that they understood
democracy no better than they did economics. And this is why Clifford May now
speaks of a counterfeit democracy. He even admits serving “on a 'democracy
panel' reporting to Condoleezza Rice [the W's Secretary of State] about whom he
now says: “In retrospect, I think it's clear she was wrong.”
And this means that the whole project which dragged America into
the cesspool of “zey know nossing about za damacracy of za Shamir” has been a
hoax through and through. Yet, that's where and when America broke its back and its bank
account.
The whole thing leaves you with three questions: What else
does Clifford May want from America