If you’ve been reading Clifford D. May as long as I have, you’ve probably noticed by now that his view of reality is so distorted, you can put him on a farm that’s full of quacking ducks, and he’ll thank you for allowing him to swim with the whales and seals of your privately owned ocean. It is that to Clifford May, a quacking duck is not enough to qualify it as a duck.
Under the title: “Why the US should stop subsidizing Tehran’s
proxy Lebanon,” Clifford May wrote an article that was published on August 2,
2022 in the Washington Times. In that article, May begins his discussion by
asserting the false view that “Lebanon was once a noble experiment”. The false
suggestion being that this was the product of European nobility, later messed
up by the Arabs and the Muslims.
Most likely unaware of the saying that goes: “The tea that
calls the kettle black,” Clifford May went on to ignore the history of European
Imperialism as it unfolded in the Middle East while observing through the
clouded lens of the incorrigible fanatic which he is, that “most Arab and
Muslim lands became dictatorships where ethnic and religious minorities — Christians, Jews
Kurds, Druze, Baha’i, Yezidis and others — enjoyed no rights or freedoms”.
Without mentioning the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between
Britain and France—concluded with the connivance of the Fascists of Italy and
Communists of Soviet Russia—the two leading imperial powers of the time, had sowed the seeds
of what has been unfolding in that part of the world ever since. Had May
bothered to do that, he would have shed much light on the reasons why the
purely Arab Agreement of 1943—as noble as it was intended to be—never had the chance to
succeed. In fact, it was made to develop into the permanent weapon that has perpetuated
crimes against the humans who dared to resist subjugation by the forever-hungry
to dominate imperialists and their kinfolks.
However, given the recent developments with regard to the
way that history has been unfolding, we can only conclude that the human spirit
to live freely, remains a force that’s powerful enough to crush any and every
attempt made by the evil forces of Imperialism, Fascism, Communism (and now
Zionism) to dominate or subjugate the human race. And we don’t have to go far
to see an example of this. Look at the recent history of Sri Lanka.
This is a country that was not long ago much different from
the way that Clifford May is describing Lebanon’s woes today. Even though Israel
is not adjacent to Sri Lanka, the long arm of destruction given it by the Princes
of Darkness from around the world, has allowed Israel to reach out half the way
across the world, and use the billions of dollars-worth of weapons given it
free of charge by America, to start and continually feed a civil war by arming
both sides in Sri Lanka.
When the combatants became exhausted, thus ended their feud,
the evildoers became so alarmed, they unleashed the secret weapon they had in
their back-pocket. It was a vicious propaganda campaign attributing to China every
demonic trick the Imperialists of the past had inflicted on their preys. But
the people of Sri Lanka knew better, and took the matter in their own hands.
They mounted an uprising and stormed the palaces of the Jewish-installed leaders
who betrayed them by selling the country to the Imperialist-Zionist coalition
from Satan’s hell.
The people of Sri Lanka forced the charlatans to flee the country,
and when calm was restored, the country began to negotiate deals with the world
institutions and the friendly states that will help it become a normal country
again. Right there, you can see that where Clifford May talks about Lebanon’s
pitiful decline; it is that his internal lens of distortion is preventing him
from seeing what lies as far as the end of his Pinocchio nose.
To give a modicum of authority to the tsunami of lies he is
about to let loose on his readers, Clifford May invokes the memory of Fouad
Ajami whom he calls the great Lebanese-born scholar. I don’t know if May knows
this, but Fouad was named after the reigning king of Egypt at the time, and
Ajami is a nickname that means “the Persian” in Arabic, meant to identify the
Shias of the Muslim world who might wish they were born Sunni. In any case,
here is a condensed version of the pack of lies which Clifford May has
contributed both by commission and by omission to the current debate — explaining
the failure of the European experiment:
“Tensions among Lebanon’s communities worsened, leading to a brutal
civil war in 1975. Then came the Syrian occupation of Lebanon from
1976 to 2005, and a war against Israel that ran from 1982 to 2000. Still, the
experimental state endured, aspiring to become, in the words of Fouad Ajami, ‘a
land of enlightenment and commerce.’ Its capital, Beirut, was hailed as the
Paris of the Middle East. Then, the revolutionaries who took power in Iran in
1979 provided funds and training to a Shia militia that called itself
Hezbollah, ‘The Party of God.’ Hezbollah today is the most heavily armed group
in the world. In 2006, the cleric who leads it,
presented Lebanon with the gift of two Israeli soldiers kidnapped across
an international frontier, leading to another war with Israel. Hezbollah
increasingly seized control of the state. Lebanon today is failing — mired
in debt, its currency debased, and unable to provide its citizens with such
basic services as electricity and garbage removal. The US has been trying to
help. For the past 15 years, the strategy of both Republican and Democratic
administrations has been to fund, train, and equip the Lebanese Armed Forces so
that ‘they could serve as an institutional counterweight to Hezbollah’”.
Alarmed for the second time by a trend that promises to
destroy their imperialist dreams, the evildoers came up with a new propaganda
scheme to put a distance between America and the success for a new life that is
increasingly taking hold in Lebanon. It is that the Arabs have once again rallied
to help Lebanon become whole. The evildoers reckon that once America succeeds
in realizing a success story working with the Arabs, it will want to repeat the
experience. And this may well cause America to neglect Israel, with the risk
that it may also cut off the umbilical cord by which Israel sucks the blood of
America’s taxpayers.