A group of artists may in the future wish to start a
television series and call it: Three stooges named Cruz, McCain & Graham.
What happens usually is that the group will write the first episode – called
pilot script – and perhaps a few more scripts. When the series begins airing,
other writers, including freelance ones, would write scripts for future
episodes and submit them to the original group, to their producer or their
director.
To help these people write a good script that would be
compatible with the theme of the series, the characters in it, and the overall
feel of the project, the group will write something called the bible of the
series. This is a document they make available to those who need guidance on
how to write for the series. It contains all the information that a writer
needs to know about each character; about the philosophy of the project and all
other matters which are unique to the series ... such as the Klingon language
was to the Star Trek series, for example.
The question now is this: Where could that group have gone
to get inspired for writing the pilot script and the bible? Well, they might
have looked back at two articles that were written in October of the year 2014.
The first was written by a certain Ted Cruz, and published on the sixth day of
that month in National Review Online under the title: “Time to Involve
Congress” and the subtitle: “The President's 60-day executive authority to take
military action against ISIS has run out.”
The second article was co-written by a John McCain and a
Lindsey Graham on the seventh day of that month in the Wall Street Journal
under the title “To Defeat Islamic State, Remove Assad” and the subtitle:
“Syrians are already asking why we're bombing ISIS
but not stopping Assad's attacks on them. Good question.” The artists of the
future writing the pilot script and the bible found much that was tragic and
much that was comical in those two articles. Comparing their content with what
they know about the era, they found that the rhetoric used was the same as that
used by the Jewish-Israeli propaganda machine.
That is, the writers of the two articles are telling America to drop everything it is doing and look
after the interests of Israel
which is the destruction of the Assad regime in Syria
and that of the Mullahs in Iran .
At the same time, adopt the Kurds to be America 's
friends, having been its enemies when Turkey
was Israel 's
friend, and the Kurds were terrorizing it. But now that Turkey is no longer the friend of Israel , the Kurdish terrorists of yesterday must
automatically become America 's
friends of today ... in their view.
What is tragically comical about the entire subject matter
is the banality that is inherent to a war mentality. For example, Ted Cruz says
this: “the Iraqi army has proven woefully inept. It has accidentally dropped
food and ammunition to ISIS fighters.” He then
says this: “We [Americans] apparently almost bombed the very people we plan to
train and equip.” And so, he concludes with this: “We should let our military
men and women do what they do best ... We have the greatest armed forces on the
planet.” Don't be surprised if this guy gets an Oscar for original thinking and
for prowess of self-defeating debate.
As to the McCain and Graham article, they pluck something
out of thin air which happens to suit their viewpoint, and use that as a base
on which to build a case as delusional as seeing ice castles in the Sahara
Desert at high noon. This is what they pluck from the air: “Syrians are already
asking why America
is bombing Islamic State but not stopping Mr. Assad from bombing them.” With
this, the two clowns want the world to believe they were able to conduct a
survey by which they were able to determine what the Syrians wanted … and they
did it despite the chaotic situation that exists in the Levant .
Don't be surprised if these two guys get an Oscar for psychedelic thinking and
for single-pole debating.
Furthermore, based on that delusion, they construct the
mother of all fantasies. It goes like this: “An inclusive, sustainable
political order. This goal will require the U.S. to militarily degrade the
Assad regime, upgrade the moderate opposition, change the momentum of the
conflict and create conditions for a political solution.” You see, my friend,
the two clowns still believe they can convince the world that the President of
the United States has a magic wand with which to accomplish all that and more.