When someone loses something he knows he'll never regain, he
falls into a state of self-pity.
When a group of people loses a status it knows it will never
regain, it develops that same sort of self-pity in addition to a tendency for
the members to accuse each other of being responsible for the loss.
When a nation that used to be a superpower becomes the super
laughingstock of the world, it falls into a state of self-pity, a state of
mutual accusation, and a state you may call phenomenon of Cheneyism.
This is what happened to America when it elected a brainless
president who picked a shameless vice-president who formed a shadow cabinet
made of “children of Holocaust survivors” who ran the country into the ground,
turning it into a doormat for the Judeo-Israeli lobby that made of it the
laughingstock of the world.
This is the story that Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz
Cheney are shamelessly trying to embellish in the article they coauthored under
the title: “Restoring American Exceptionalism” and the subtitle: “President
Obama has dangerously surrendered the nation's global leadership, but it can be
ours again – if we choose his successor wisely,” published on August 29, 2015
in the Wall Street Journal.
Not surprisingly, the Cheneys begin the article by giving a
brief history of the glorious past that America used to enjoy till it lost it
all in what amounts to a blink of an eye … considering that we're talking about
the lifespan of a nation, if not an empire – however reluctant that empire
might have been at times. It is at this point in the article that Dick and Liz
drop a bombshell: “For the most part, until the administration of Barack Obama,
we delivered.” This is to mean that the Bush-Cheney administration which
preceded that of Obama also delivered. Imagine!
They say that much despite the fact that the world knows,
and history has recorded that the Bush-Cheney administration delivered to Obama
an economy that was imploding, and a Republican Secretary of the Treasury that
was literally on his knees begging a Democratic Speaker of the House to approve
measures that will save the nation from dissolving into a state of financial
annihilation. Moreover, that worse-than-useless administration delivered to
Obama two foreign wars that had no exit plan or a way to deal with
contingencies except for bribing some local tribes in Iraq in return
for them pretending that things were quiet on that front.
But why did the Cheneys talk about foreign policy and not
the economy even though the two are inextricably linked? They did because of
what they had in mind for what comes after that point in the article. And what
comes is a complete airing of the Judeo-Israeli agenda. In a nutshell, they say
this: “In the 1940s American leadership was essential to victory in World War
II … In the Cold War American leadership guaranteed the survival of freedom …
President Obama has departed from this tradition of ensuring America's
pre-eminence and strength.”
This brought them to Iran , the current Judeo-Israeli
preoccupation. They say the following about the deal negotiated with that
country: “Allowing the Iranians to enrich uranium … virtually guarantees that
they will become a nuclear state … In addition, it will provide them with
hundreds of billions of dollars of sanctions relief … The U.S. Congress should
reject this deal and reimpose the sanctions … and recognize that the use of
military force will be required … We must resolve to take action and shouldn't
lose hope.”
This done, they plead with the American people to do the
right thing next time they vote. Look at this: “Just as one president has left
a path of destruction in his wake, one president can rescue us.” Are they
talking about the destructive Bush whose aftermath was rescued by Obama? No.
Not really. In fact, they are asking for a repeat of the tragicomedy that was
the Bush-Cheney-Rove administration. These two have no sense of the absurd.
There is more of what they say: “As citizens, we have
another obligation … They [the citizens] need to know about the horror of the
Holocaust … They should understand what kind of world militant Islam will
create … President Reagan put it this way, 'We will always remember. We will
always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.'”