The human condition is such that when you work for someone,
you owe your loyalty to them whether or not you know who the ultimate pied
piper is. In general, if you live in a so-called autocratic state where power
is centralized, you know who that is because the honcho of honchos is the head
of government. And so, you view your immediate boss as being the first link in
the chain of command standing between you and the ultimate holder of power. If
it happens that you transfer to another department, the faces you see everyday
may change but the face of the ultimate boss remains the same.
By contrast, if you live in a so-called liberal-democracy
where power is decentralized, you know that the person who hired you to work
for the organization is your immediate boss but you also know that other
departments exist, each of which is run by another boss. At first, you pledge
your loyalty to the one who gave you the job because it is how you get to keep
it. However, the longer you work for the organization, the more people from the
other departments you get to befriend, including other bosses who will hint
there might be a better position for you in their department if you're willing
to switch loyalties. This is when you start developing dual and multiple
loyalties, and when you get sucked into office intrigues that never end.
Whether you live in a state that is autocratic or one that
is liberal-democratic, there are daily dogmas and semi-permanent ones to which
you must adhere because to violate them can cost you the job or worse. The
dogmas of the autocracies are simple to understand because they invariably
relate to the system that is governing the state. What is required there is the
continued acknowledgment that the existing system is the best one ever devised.
As to the dogmas of the liberal-democracies, they can be ambiguous, confusing
and contradictory; and they often relate to how bad things are over there as
much as they relate to how good they are over here.
But something new happened in America, and you can see the
effect of it in the editorial of the Wall Street Journal that came under the
title: “Europe's Syria-Trained Jihadists” and the subtitle: “A French
'returnee' is arrested for the attack on a Jewish museum.” It was published in
the Journal on June 1, 2014.
After telling the story of a French returnee that mounted an
attacked in France having returned home; and after telling the story of an
American that did not return home because he ended his life in a suicide attack
in Syria, the editors of the Journal end their piece this way: “The conceit of
the anti-interventionists is that if we avoid the world's conflicts, those
conflicts will leave us alone. Syria 's
won't.” The dogma here being that America must poke its nose in everyone else's
affair, the fact that one “jihadist” returned home and the other did not,
represent the same lesson to these editors – it is that America must poke its
nose everywhere.
How do they come to this conclusion? Very simple, they make
the convenient statement that leads to the sought after conclusion. Here it is:
“Our 'realist' friends have opposed any Western help for the Syrian opposition
on grounds that it would prolong the war and assist jihadists. Yet doing
nothing to help the nonradical opposition has prolonged the war and helped the
extremists recruit jihadists world-wide.”
Well, the realists, as they call them based their assessment
on the premise that everywhere America
has intervened – such as Afghanistan ,
Iraq and Libya – the war
took a turn for the worse, attracted jihadists from everywhere, and promised no
end in sight. So the question: On what premise do the editors of the Journal
base their own assessment? And the answer is: Nothing “realistic” as they
pointed out. Their motivation is a fundamental belief in a dogma that says what
the Jews wish for is what God wants. Do it and everything will turn out all
right because God will come to the rescue in the end.
He hasn't in thousands of years and He won't now. Believe
it, America ,
because the pool of intellectual prostitution in which you are invited to swim
will prove to be the cesspool that eats at your soul the way that the
flesh eating disease eats at human flesh.