Friday, February 26, 2021

She is Proof that Madness is contagious

 Is it possible that someone visiting a sanatorium often and spending time there, will catch the ongoing mental illness and become mad? Apparently, it is.

 

There is evidence to that effect in the article that Victoria Coates has written under the title: “Biden administration shouldn't be negotiating with Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA,)” and the subtitle: “It should designate MFA as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), using the facts.” The article was published on February 23, 2021 in The Washington Times.

 

Considering that most of the world and the majority of the American electorate have thought of the Donald Trump administration as a madhouse, and considering that Victoria Coates is now exhibiting signs of madness, it stands to reason that she caught the mental illness by frequenting the White House. The alternative to this deduction is to think that Trump's residence and workplace was sane till Victoria Coates started to visit the building where she was supposed to do work, and perhaps play political games too.

 

Whatever Victoria Coates was doing, she could have transmitted the disease to the other dwellers, effectively turning the White House into a real Madhouse. But, like the saying goes, where's the beef? The answer to that question is to be found in the following condensed passage, excerpted from Coates's article:

 

“Recent reports reveal that Obama administration officials worked actively to preserve the Obama nuclear deal. On three occasions, John Kerry met with Javed Zarif to persuade him to keep the deal on life support so a future Democrat administration could return to compliance with it. Now that Joe Biden is in office, the new administration needs to understand the region in 2021 is not what it was when the deal was struck in 2015. Rather than seeing things for what they were six years ago; they may want to engage in a reality check before entering into any agreements”.

 

So, the first thing that Victoria Coates wants to do now, is tell the Biden administration that things are so different today from what they were six years ago, what was kosher then is no longer kosher today because things have changed much –– and changed for the worse. She adds: And if you don't believe me, Mr. President, consider that those of us who worked for Donald Trump have been saying all along that the nuclear deal was so bad, it should never have been negotiated. However, when proven wrong by a situation that was made worse by our actions, we recognized that we spread falsehoods over many years. And this should be your proof that we are correct now in saying that what was good then, is no good today.

 

In other words, she is saying: “What we did yesterday was so bad, it made matters worse. To fix things, we must not stop doing what we used to do, but must continue doing it.” And if this is not enough to convince you, dear reader, that the woman is a nutcase, look what else she has written to buttress the argument that things are worse today than they were before Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal. In fact, not only did Trump do that, as she admits, he also instituted the infamous maximum pressure campaign against Iran. Here is an abbreviated passage of what Victoria Coates wrote in this regard:

 

“Decision-makers in the Iranian regime have aggressively ramped up terrorist activities in recent years. In 2019, the Trump administration listed the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, the first time the US had so sanctioned an official foreign military. The February 16, 2021 attack on the International Airport in Erbil, as well as subsequent attacks on Balad Air base in Erbil and on our Embassy in Baghdad, are a deliberate escalation of IRGC terrorist activities”.

 

She is here admitting that Donald Trump's policies have backfired, making things worse than they were before. So then, what does she recommend? Believe it or not, her wacky logic has led her to recommend with a straight face, that the Biden administration should refrain from returning to the nuclear deal.

 

Having seen and studied all of that, is there anything in Victoria Coates's article that suggests what it is that sends some people so far off the mark, they are considered crazy to a dangerous level? The answer is, yes there is. To see it, consider this excerpt:

 

“There is pressure on the new administration to remove the IRGC from the FTO list as an incentive to bring Iran to the negotiating table. However, taking this step would only reward and incentivize more terrorism”.

 

Looking at the low intensity war that's ongoing between America and Iran, sane people see a kind of symmetry between the two combatants. They may be unequal when it comes to military strength, but each has the same rights and obligations under the rules of warfare.

 

But this is not how the crazies see things. It is that they have been indoctrinated in the belief that, “when we fight them, we engage in legitimate warfare. When they respond, they engage in illegitimate terrorism”.

 

This says that indoctrination has bifurcated the logic capability of these people. When they see two individuals fight –– one they like and one they don’t –– they do not see two humans. They see one human fighting something, perhaps a subhuman.

 

It must be said this is a doctrine that was injected into the American culture of equality and meritocracy by the Judeo-Yiddish culture of exclusiveness. The reality is that the Americans no longer see each other as indivisible, and going through life on a single track.

 

Rather, the Americans see life rolling on two tracks: There is the track on which I, and my kind travel. And there is the track on which my enemies travel.

 

What they do not see is the abyss at the end of the track they are on.