When someone is engaged in a verbal duel in which he finds himself defending the side that has little or no merit, he shoots in every direction as if in the dark, hoping to hit anything at all, thus claim to have scored enough of what allows him to claim victory … and he exits the duel.
The
trouble is that if he gets away playing this game for a few moments, he cannot
get away playing it much longer because he is bound to create the conditions
that will snare him and pull him down. This will happen because a good argument
is one in which all the parts fit together like a puzzle that’s neither missing
something nor containing an excess of pieces with no place for them in the
puzzle.
Whether
we’re faced with a good puzzle that a legitimate argument can settle, or a bad puzzle
with random pieces that may or may not fit together; that may or may not belong
in the same puzzle — what the debate will do,
is expose one or several contradictions that will wrap themselves around the
phony debater, and snare him. When this happens, his argument will disintegrate
in the way that a cookie crumbles, and he’ll lose the debate fair and square.
This
is what happened to Jonathan S. Tobin who entered the current debate with an
article he wrote under the title: “After Afghanistan, how can anyone trust
Biden on an Iran nuke deal?” It was published on August 23, 2021 in the New
York Post.
Tobin’s
position is that President Biden has a flawed judgment but he doesn’t know it.
This is why Biden continues to take the wrong decisions that harm America, says
Tobin. He goes on to explain that Biden’s ineptitude is shown in his continued
attempt to reach a deal with Iran on the nuclear issue. But now that the
situation in Afghanistan has shown him to be incompetent beyond any doubt, Biden
should reverse course and embrace the judgment that was adopted by his immediate
predecessor Donald Trump who nixed the old nuclear deal and imposed a regime of
maximum pressure on Iran.
But
is this the full story, or is it pulling wool over the public’s eyes? The truth
is that something weird has been happening in America’s governance during the
tenure of the last several presidents. It is that groups have been forming by
the spontaneous coming-together of lobbyists and journalists who relentlessly
hammer at the decisions taken by the Executive or the Legislature. They employ
tricks that often succeed at rousing the public, which forces the government to
rescind or modify its decisions.
In
fact, this happened several times during the tenure of Donald Trump, causing
some people to comment that the military had mutinied against its commander in
chief when it refused to obey the order to pull the troops out of Syria and
Afghanistan. In fact, the latest decision to pull out of Afghanistan was made
by Trump who negotiated with the Taliban for the withdrawal to be completed by
May 1, 2021. But guess what, my friend. This did not happen because nobody took
the commander in chief’s order seriously. And this included the Americans who
now have a hard time trying to exit Afghanistan.
But
Donald Trump was kicked out of the White House and replaced by Commander in
Chief Joe Biden who stubbornly insisted that the order be obeyed. However, for
practical reasons, he pushed the date for completing the withdrawal to the end
of August. What transpired subsequently shows that if Biden had stuck with the
decision to pull out the troops by May, it would have been an exercise in bad
judgment.
Still,
Joe Biden may or may not complete the job of total withdrawal by the end of
August, but if he falls short, it will be due to the confusion that was
generated by the lobbyists and journalists that try to run the country by
rousing the masses with flawed ideas mixed with false stories and baseless
speculations. All in all, what this says, is that the Biden Team has shown
impeccable judgment throughout this episode at a time when flawed judgment has
been raining on the team and the public from every direction.
Be
that as it may, we must not lose sight of the reality that once again, Jonathan
Tobin has done what comes naturally to members of the Jewish mob of pundits. He
took advantage of a dire situation afflicting the nation to try extracting
concessions from the American government. As you can expect, these would be concessions
that would benefit the faraway foreign entity calling itself Israel. Here in
condensed form, is what Tobin wants the American public to be so peeved about,
it will rise up, revolt against Biden and demand that Israel be accommodated
even at the expense of the well-being of Americans who are still in Afghanistan
trying to get out:
“Biden took office determined to
reinstate the nuclear deal that President Trump nixed. Since then, the Iranians
have done so much cheating, it’s hard to see how a new agreement will keep them
from crossing the nuclear threshold. Everything we know about Joe Biden tells
us he’s too pigheaded to reverse course on Iran. If he follows his instincts
and agrees to a new nuke deal with Iran, the consequences for the Middle East
and American security may be far worse”.
Do as I say, the Jew has warned, or the national security of America will be threatened. He now expects to see a letter writing campaign that will rain on the legislators who will scurry like scared cockroaches trying to cut a piece of America and send it to feed Israel.