Wednesday, September 16, 2015

There's East, there's West and there's the Abyss

It happens often that when foreigners listen to grown men and women in America, even highly educated ones talking about their adherence to American or Western values, the foreigners feel like cracking a laughter; maybe even shed a few tears of sorrow and pity for the Americans.

That's because the discussion invariably takes the sort of turn that leads the Americans to say to each other and to the world they are an exceptional people because they love freedom whereas their opponents hate freedom. Having thus placed themselves in a separate category, which may at times include other Western nations but no one else, it never occurs to those Americans that there is more to a system of values than one's declared love for freedom – whether what they are living is real freedom or a mirage. These Americans simply do not know that an important component of the value system is how people treat each other and how they deal with foreigners.

To put it simply, when things are normal and no one is carrying baggage or holding grudges, an Oriental who encounters someone for the first time, will extend to that person the respect as well as the benefit of the doubt, both of which are normally extended to a revered member of the family. In contrast, a Westerner will react with fear and a sense of foreboding when he encounters someone for the first time.

What happens after that – which will define the long term relationship between the two – will depend on the character of the individuals involved. But the signature of what is Oriental or what is Western will not be erased entirely even as the relationship evolves and alters through time.

The question now is this: What happens when the Orient and the West meet? The answer is that the Orient will, at first, trust the West. The West will then betray the Orient, and will seek to exploit it. This will cause the East to turn angry and fight back till it regains control over its own destiny by damaging the West or annihilating it if the latter keeps trying to subdue the Orient. This, in fact, has been the story of China and the West.

Another question is this: Can the lessons that were learned from dealing with China since the visit to that country that was paid by President Nixon – be applied to North Korea? The answer is probably not for two reasons. They are that America has changed, and the North Koreans have learned a great deal about the old America and the new America. What has changed about America is that it was contaminated by the Jewish culture in a way that can only be called a move toward the abyss.

What tells you there had been a Jewish hand in a given witches' brew is the tendency to place people into separate compartments, not only things or events. Such people would not necessarily be segregated according to skin color or to beliefs; they would be according to the dictum: “who is with us and who is against us”. However, if an entire group that can be identified by a skin color or a religious belief proves to be with them or against them, the tendency to segregate will apply to the group.

The interplay between all those notions comes out in the Wall Street Journal editorial which came under the title: “North Korea's Nuclear Gambit” and the subtitle: “Is Kim Jong Un angling for his own version of Iran's nuclear deal?” It was published on September 16, 2015. Whereas an Oriental may not try to extract a lesson from the way that America has treated another country, North Korea did just that with regard to the Iran nuclear deal, according to the reports upon which the Journal editors wrote their piece.

The worry here is that the Jewish tendency to move toward the abyss seems to take hold in this undertaking. Thus, instead of scoring a success, the Americans may score a failure. Here is what may well happen: Responding to the expressed need of the North Koreans to feel safe in their country, the Obama administration will try to negotiate a deal that will be beneficial to them and to the world.

In the meantime, influential pundits driven by the Jewish penchant for the abyss will see Iran and North Korea as two characters from the compartment labeled 'against us.' Those pundits will argue that the Koreans cannot be trusted, and will recommend that they be dealt with harshly. The result will be that a number of the brainless and the uninformed in Congress will follow the recommendation and scuttle any deal that the current administration or the next one will have negotiated with the North Koreans.

The Journal editorial provides a glimpse of the arguments that the pundits will put out. Here is one: “If a deal is reached. Kim knows that he can then violate it at will without paying too steep a price.”

It seems we're in for a replay of the debate that led to the Iran deal. Let’s hope it will succeed as much.