Can Time after Time Tell what Next Will Be?

According to Dennis Prager, when you advocate war – time after time – makes you a peace loving soul whereas if you seek peace at every occasion that opens to you, makes you an evil member of the evil empire. This, he says, happens in a world where the moral compass is not broken; where the moral north reads north, and the moral south reads south.

By contrast, he explains that what exists in the world today is a situation where the moral compass is broken; where the moral north reads south, and the moral south reads north. And he came to this conclusion, he says, because a recent international survey has shown that the United States of America is viewed in the world, and viewed in America itself as being the foremost threat to world peace.

You can see the details of this debate which Prager is having with himself in the article he wrote under the title: “Warmongers R Us?” which also came under the subtitle: “An international poll on world peace produces some upside-down results.” It was published on January 7, 2014 in National Review Online.

You realize early on what is wrong with the stance that Prager is taking when you see him compare what he calls the loathsome and barbaric regimes of North Korea, Iran and Syria against the United States of America which he calls the world's greatest force for peace and liberty. That is, he compares two sets of opposite adjectives that conjure up two opposite images – one evil and one good. And so he concludes that because good is better than evil, therefore America is better than those other ones. Well, you may consider this to be flawless logic on the surface. But when you look at its core, you see something different.

What the author should have done at the outset is tell how he defines “threat” and “threat to world peace” which is what the question was about. Surely, someone that picks up a gun and goes into a school or a movie theater for the sole purpose of killing as many innocent people as possible without a reason but to satisfy an internal sickly desire to do so, is a loathsome and barbaric creature. But the thing is that he could not be a threat to the world, therefore, he could not even be on the list of “Foremost threat to world peace.”

America, by contrast, has the might to threaten world peace, and the question is whether or not the signs are there it may do so. Its own history says it will not hesitate to use the most lethal weapons in its arsenal to create the most havoc and destruction among the ranks of what it perceives as the enemy. In fact, it has used nuclear weapons when no one else had them. And worthy of note is the fact that when the others acquired such weapons, they did not use them or threaten to use them.

Also, America used carpet bombing of cities like no one else ever did. Not only that; it came close to using nuclear weapons during the Vietnam war but did not only because a British Prime Minister restrained them by rebuking them publicly … calling them lunatics. And rumors have it that America was prepared even before that to explode nuclear devices along the geographical line separating the old Soviet Union from the Middle East to prevent the Soviets from invading and seizing the Arab and Persian oil fields.

As to what is happening in America today, the pattern of the self appointed hawks beating the drums of war is rising in intensity and picking volume. If history is any guide, this occurrence augurs badly for those who wish to see a peaceful planet – which apparently comprises most people in the world, or at least those that responded to the survey, and voted for America to be designated as the foremost threat to world peace.

Among the American hawks is Dennis Prager, our author. Like the hawks of the feather, he sits by the drum beating it furiously while accompanying the beating with the refrain: bomb this one, Uncle Sam; then go left and bomb that one; then go right and bomb that other one till you have bombed them all, and no one is left that Israel cannot walk over and dictate the terms of surrender. Do that and get a pledge to love, honor and cherish the Jews of Israel and all those everywhere in the world the way they do it in the American Congress of bimbos.

Finally, to give the impression that he looks past the surface of his own logic, and sees all the way to the core of the subject matter, Prager ends by asking two questions: Would the world be more or less peaceful if only America disarmed … if only America were armed?

What do you see, Dennis, when looking at history? Who do you see other than America nuke and carpet bomb?