Let's accept – for the purpose of
this discussion – the notion that there are three nations on this planet
wearing the mantle of superpower. They are (1) the United States of America
that has been one and remains one, (2) Russia that has been one, and is trying
to become one again, and (3) China that is unmistakably a nation on its way to
becoming a superpower.
You might say that these three
nations have a problem with what has come to be called radical Islam. The
difference between the three, as seen by a detached observer, is that only one,
the United States of America ,
is running around like a hysterical psycho, armed with a number of guns and
loaded with ammunition, shooting in every direction at ghosts that he sees in
his mind's eye.
And while most of the town folks
are indifferent to what he is doing as they go about their daily business while
trying to doge his bullets, a small mob is cheering him on, even shouting at
the rest of the town folks that the ghosts he sees are real, that they will
soon materialize and will devour the town, one family after the other. And in
the midst of this melee rises one lone voice, a man who knows what he is
talking about, telling the town folks not to get hysterical because there is
neither a reason nor room for hysteria.
That man is retired Marine
Lieutenant general Bernard E. Trainor who wrote an article under the title:
“The battle against the Islamic State is not ours to fight or win,” published
on September 24, 2014 in the Washington Post. The first paragraph of Trainor's
article establishes the reality of the situation in which America finds
itself, and hints at the differences between this superpower and the other two.
He says this: “Islamic State
zealots received international attention … but the United States should know better
than to respond with a clarion call to battle. We have been burned trying to
resolve the Rubik's cube of the Middle East . U.S. actions in
the region should remain calculating, patient – and detached.” With this, he
establishes the fact that he is himself detached from the Middle East as should
America
be, given that it has no business being there.
And that view is what hints at the
difference between America
and the other two superpowers; the reality being that the problem of radical
Islam came knocking at their doors while America – cheered by a small mob of
half-baked right wing intellectuals – went knocking at the doors of the
problem. Free from the Jewish fuel which powers the mob in America , Russia
and China
devote no more attention to their troubles with radical Islam than they do to a
small nuisance. By contrast, the problem has become so large for America that Trainor concludes his article with
this advice: “After more than a decade of frustration and humiliation, the United States should have learned that the Middle East is no place for Wilsonianism on steroids.”
In reaching that conclusion, the
cold eye of the detached observer that Trainor is, makes the following points:
“Much of what the Islamic State occupies in Syria and Iraq is useless desert …
Its blitzkrieg can be seen as a struggle for ascendency but at the core it is a
local matter … The president's attempt to form an international posse makes
sense, and the results have been encouraging. But it is a stalemate in the
making. Meanwhile the Islamic State could draw U.S. troops into the Syrian
maelstrom. The idea of destroying it is nonsense … The situation in Mesopotamia is a violent game of mistrust and
self-interest. The double-dealing is almost endless. It doesn't make sense to
us, but it does to the players.”
Thus, the American problem is not
really America ; it is Israel that wants to be a player in the region
but cannot without America 's
muscle and superpower status. It is relying on World Jewry and its agents in America to
orchestrate the cheering that is done by the mob of dummies. But after a decade
of frustration and humiliation – as observed by Trainor, the man who knows what
he is talking about – America
should now mind its own business the way that Russia
and China
mind theirs.
They remain respected in the world
not because they flex their muscles to make the world fear them; they remain
respected because they don't run around like a hysterical psycho, armed with
guns and loaded with ammunition, shooting in every direction at ghosts that do
not exist.