There is an American ritual that's played out predictably, but is of such insignificance, it does not warrant great anticipation before it happens, nor does it call for celebration after it happens … except there is reason to talk about it this time.
The ritual is played out the
moment that a Democratic President is elected in America. The event causes the
warmongers, neocons, Pax Americanists, Zionists and the like, to scream in
unison: Show you'll be capable of taking action when it will come to that! And
the newly elected Democratic President would oblige by latching on to a flimsy
excuse, and using it to bomb an Arab or a Muslim target. He then tells the
chorus that was clamoring for blood to shut up and let him do his job.
Satisfied they got their pint of blood, they shut up.
This is what happened with the
bombing that Biden conducted in Syria not long ago. However, such events are so
insignificant, they do not remain fresh in memory for long, the reason why I
cannot describe them all. But there is one incident that had some significance
because of what it could have triggered had luck not intervened and softened
the blow. If memory serves me, it was right after Bill Clinton was elected that
Muslim Foreign Ministers gathered in a Baghdad Hotel. Clinton was told to blow
up the hotel, and he tried to do just that by sending a cruise missile to bomb
the thing. Luck intervened, however, and the missile exploded a few feet away
from the hotel, causing a large crater in the ground with little damage to the
hotel itself. And this is how a war between the religions was avoided.
If anyone notices these
things, it must be that they think of it as the high school mentality of American
foreign policy, left as it was in the hands of the Jews who took command of it
and began to throw their weight around. If you want to experience first-hand
how high schoolish that is, two recent articles will give you a taste of it.
You’ll remember it for a while before memory will fade away.
One article came under the
title: “After Just One Month In Office, Biden Orders Airstrike In Syria,”
written by Jordan Davidson, and published on February 26, 2021 in The
Federalist. The other article came under the title: “Biden Fires a Warning Shot
at Iran,” and the subtitle: “The US strike against Tehran's proxies in Syria
indicates there will be no quick return to the 2015 nuclear deal.” It was
written by Elliott Abrams, and published in National Review Online, also on
February 26, 2021.
What you see in the Jordan
Davidson article is not a discussion on the implication of the bombing, but a
line of thought that goes like this: “See? He criticized Trump for doing it. He
promised he'll never do it. And here he is, doing it. Ain't that somethin'?
He's almost one of us now.” How much more high schoolish can it get?
As to the Elliott Abrams
article, it shows that the author has tried to give a larger meaning to the
bombing than was intended by the Biden administration. He first (kind of)
congratulated Joe Biden for making the decision to bomb. He then spoke of his
fears and hopes for what may come next. Here is a condensed version of the
article's first part:
“After only a month in power,
Biden has used military force in reaction to Iranian-sponsored attacks on
Americans in Iraq. The strike hit Iraqi Shiite groups along the Iraqi-Syrian
border. The Biden strike is a message to Iran. He chose a limited strike inside
Syria rather than Iraq. There is a logic to this choice. First, US attacks
inside Iraq would complicate life for Prime Minister Kadhimi, and spur the
forces hostile to any US presence to demand that all US forces be expelled.
Second, should Biden need to hit Iranian-backed forces again, this limited
strike allows him to say he tried restraint and it failed”.
By describing the attack
without criticizing it, and then expressing understanding as to why it was
conducted the way it was, Elliott Abrams went as far as he could to
congratulate President Biden. And now, here is a condensed version of the
second part of the Elliott Abrams article:
“But the strike inside Syria
and at Iranian proxies may also send the message that the US will never hit
Iran's proxies inside Iraq and that it will never hit Iran. Sooner or later
these attacks will kill Americans. That's when the president will face the need
to punish Iran and establish deterrence. The very least that can be said about
President Biden's second month in power is that we are seeing any dreams of a
quick return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and a quick resolution to
US-Iranian confrontations dissolve before our eyes. The President's refusal to
lift the sanctions and his willingness to use force against Iranian proxies
suggest a more realistic assessment of Iran than many feared”.
As can be seen, Elliott
Abrams's fears are these: Biden will never hit Iranians in Iraq or Iran. There
may not be a quick return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, but unfortunately this
will happen.
And the following are his hopes: He relishes the idea that sooner or later, Americans will get killed, and Biden will be forced to punish Iran. He hopes that confrontation between America and Iran will never dissolve. And he hopes that Biden will continue to use the military to hit Iran with lethal force.