Monday, July 20, 2015

The muted Hysteria of a stunted Religion

There are two ways to determine whether or not someone is living in a state of hysteria. The first is to watch for the obvious manifestation of frantic gestures, loud sounds and nonsensical utterances that the person under observation may express. The second is to gauge by how much that person is removed from reality.

Those are the tools we'll use to determine whether or not Noah Pollak and many like him are in a state of hysteria – be it a visible hysteria or a muted one. He wrote an article under the title: “Obama's Claim of War If Congress Rejects Iran Deal Doesn't Pass Laugh Test,” published on July 17, 2015 in the Weekly Standard. And this will be the starting point from which we'll try to understand what these people are up to.

It is important to do so given that people like him have spilled rivers of ink, and spent countless hours on the audio-visual media, telling their audiences about the need to bomb Iran into the Stone Age to save the world from a repeat of the 1938 tragedy … and they are doing it even now. Yet, here they are, at the very same time accusing President Obama of deception for reminding them of what they were advocating then, and what they are saying now. That's the tangled mess which makes these people perfect candidates for probing their mental state, and for studying the role that their religion is playing to make them so confused and so confusing.

It is bad enough to live in an alternate universe, but to live in two of them at the same time makes of these people the cultural time bombs they turned out to be on the American scene. Look what Pollak is doing in his article. He first accuses Obama of “borderline political blackmail [for] accusing them of being warmongers.” A short while later, he writes this: “there are several options for avoiding war: A military threat that is actually credible.” Well, my friend, only a dangerously affected mind can live in a universe where an actually credible military threat exists and at the same time, live in a second universe where the risk of war is avoided.

To argue that possibility, Pollak makes a case in three points.

First, he plunges into the debate at the point where his side is advocating the launch of a war against Iran while the opposite side continues to reject the idea. Here he is talking about an eventuality where the deal with Iran is rejected: “One scenario is that Iran decides to race to a bomb, forcing airstrikes on nuclear facilities. But President Obama has already all but ruled out airstrikes, claiming that there is no military solution to the problem.” This is the reality he lives in one of the universes.

Second, to make the point that “the president has a serious credibility problem,” Pollak reminds the readers that he repeatedly said: “No deal is better than a bad deal.” Since the President made clear he will not go to war, the statement meant he will continue to pressure Iran for more concessions. But now that he is talking about the possibility of war, he put his credibility on the line, says Pollak. Well, the problem with this line of reasoning stems from the fact that his universes are nothing more than snapshot pictures where time is frozen, and evolution is non-existent.

The fact is that those who call on the Congress to reject the Iran nuclear deal have also argued that this will be the step to pave the way for a future President to turn the credible threat of war into the reality of war. Obama will not bomb Iran, but the next President – if a Republican like these people hope he will be – will encounter a hysterical Jewish mob that will hound him to repeat the W. Bush performance, and go on a military rampage that will send Iran back into the cave. Whether or not this will happen remains to be seen. But if history is a guide, the risk is there, which is what President Obama was referring to … and Pollak could not grasp.

Third, not only does the author of the article live in several universes at the same time – all being snapshot universes where time is frozen and evolution non-existent – these universes contain no human beings capable of making decisions for themselves. Oblivious of a world where things are moving in the direction of establishing normal relations with Iran whatever the American Congress decides, Pollak writes the following:

“There are UN resolutions and US and EU laws that comprise the sanctions regime, and there is no clause written into them stipulating that congressional rejection of a deal rescinds the sanctions regime … Yet we are now to believe that when it comes to enforcing sanctions, the President is compelled to accept the violation of dozens of laws with impunity … This doesn't pass the laugh test.”

If only there was a magical potion that would help us circumvent the religious barrier which keeps the Jews from evolving, we could ram into their skulls the reality that people at the EU, and people at the UN will not be dictated to by America or by its Jews because these people have a mind of their own and will enforce or rescind their own laws as they see fit. Period.

Until someone comes up with that potion, we must continue to look for ways that will help the Jews evolve because their petty backwardness keeps threatening the world – as it has for centuries – with more holocausts and more misery for the human race. We must end this cycle.