Let's try to write a fictional story and see what we can
learn from it.
There is this guy they nicknamed Baron because he is a
wealthy and ruthless businessman. Though he was never elected to any office, he
commands everything in the town he runs with an iron fist. He does that by
controlling the lives of just about everyone that's important and has influence
on the town-folks.
He is getting on with age, however, and knows a few things
that his immediate family and the extended part of it, have no clue what they
mean. It is that the children, the grandchildren and the in-laws were born with
a silver spoon in the mouth, and cannot conceive that things are beginning to
change in their town. But he sees the coming change and knows that things
cannot continue to unfold as they have been for much longer.
Whereas the signs point to an impending change he knows is
inevitable, the signs become fodder for the rest of the family whose members
embark on endless debates and ideological fights that tear the family apart.
Added to this is a family lawyer who is more of a weasel than an officer of the
court … always delighting at throwing gasoline on every brush fire he gleefully
turns into an inferno.
The truth about the town is that lesser families have
sacrificed like saintly heroes to raise children and give them the kind of
education that allowed them to compete against the business empire of the
Baron, survive its frequent assaults on them, and beat it in certain areas. And
these rising children are getting stronger by the day.
The Baron's family views them as a nuisance that can be
dealt with if only the Baron would show a firmer resolve than he has so far.
Knowing that this sort of suggestions will get him nowhere, he delegates power
to the loudest among his children, and tells them to go deal with the situation
themselves.
Well, my friend, it is time to tell you that this fictional
story is a metaphor. The Baron is America , his family is the opinion
makers, the rising town-folks are the rest of the world, and the weaseling
lawyer is the stereotypical Jew. Now imagine an America that is exhausted but
trying to remain strong enough and influential enough in a world that is rising
with unparalleled vigor. The opinion makers continue to believe that America
has the power to tell everyone what to do … with the Jews standing behind them,
nudging them to be more aggressive at demanding that the old man show more
resolve.
First, imagine one delegation of American opinion makers deputized
to go to China intending to
warn the Chinese that if they don't rein in their client state, North Korea ,
they will suffer the consequences. What do you think the Chinese will say after
hearing what the Americans had to say? Try this: You who arm Israel, an
outlaw entity that launched more than a dozen wars in the region and now
occupies a neighbor – are here telling us to rein in North Korea that is
neither occupying someone's land nor fighting against a neighbor? Which planet
do you come from?
Second, imagine another delegation of American opinion
makers deputized to go talk to the Arabs intending to nudge them to participate
in the war against ISIS . What do you think the
Arabs will say after hearing what the Americans had to say? Try this: You, the
West, who have labored for a century to cobble together groups you knew will
fight each other, and then lit the match that started the fights – are here
telling us to enlarge those fights and turn them into massive inter-Arab and
inter-Muslim civil wars? Which planet do you come from?
Third, imagine yet another delegation of American opinion
makers deputized to go tell the Russians to stop encircling the nations of
Eastern Europe in an attempt to bring them into a sphere of influence that will
be dominated by the Russian
Federation . What do you think the Russians
will say after hearing what the Americans had to say? Try this: You who
promised not to interfere with the nations we let loose from the old Soviet Union , and broke your promise – are here telling
us not to try extending our sphere of influence? Which planet do you come from?