Thursday, August 31, 2023

The welcome greeting that’s unwelcomed

Imagine you move into a community for the first time. You find it to be as pleasant as you thought it will be and so, you prepare yourself mentally to enjoy your stay in it indefinitely.

 

The community is populated with all kinds of people who came into it from all sorts of places. It is diverse enough and large enough to house residents who know each other, but also residents who remain unknown to each other.

 

You go out of the house one day to take a walk and enjoy the landscape that nature was offering, also enjoy what the early builders of the community achieved by creating the kind of architecture that blends nicely with the landscape they inherited.

 

During the walk, you spot a number of people sitting around a table situated on the sidewalk in front of a restaurant. You approach them and ask if you can join them. They say yes, even welcome you as if with open arms. You don’t tell them you just moved in, they come to believe you’re an old timer like themselves, and they carry on with the conversation they wee having.

 

Slowly but surely, you realize that they have been talking about the newcomer and his family who, in reality, was none other than you and your family. Most of those around the table said little that’s positive or negative about you, except for one man who described you with vociferous zeal as being the devil incarnate whose presence in the community will doom it.

 

This being a metaphor representing a weird kind of situation, you want to know more about it, especially the vociferous zealot who attacked you for no apparent reason. Well, that man is Clifford D. May who attacked most of humanity—which includes you and me and everyone else on this planet. He wrote an article spewing his hatred for humankind under the title: “Supporting Ukraine and the price of American leadership,” and had it published on August 29, 2023 in the Washington Times. Here is how he described the large part of humanity that wants to get together and organize itself into a better world; one that will accommodate everyone without prejudice:

 

“Meanwhile, in South Africa, the BRICS bloc – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – held a summit at which they agreed to admit Iran, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina, and the United Arab Emirates. More than 20 other countries have expressed an interest in joining. With Messrs. Xi and Putin at the helm, and Mr. Khamenei holding their hands, this will become the latest anti-American international community – a growth industry. If you’re an isolationist, you think: Let nations non-align against America! Let Russia erase Ukraine! Let NATO crumble! Let Beijing take Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific! Why worry?”

 

Clifford May asserts that when human beings come together in an international community with an agenda that tries to improve the lot of our species — be that materially or spiritually — they are bound as pacifists to be anti-American, he says, because this has been the growth industry of our time. He proposes instead the formation of another group; one that will have an agenda containing the production of weapons of war with which to deter the pacifists or destroy them if necessary.

 

Realizing that he could be talking to people who may not share his views, and are not even prepared to consider them legitimate topics for discussion, Clifford May went out of his way to shock humanity by describing the people and regimes he opposes in shocking language. Here, in condensed form, is a compilation of what he said in that regard:

 

“We can try to reset relations with Mr. Putin as President Obama did. We can continue to attempt to thaw relations with Mr. Xi. We can bribe Ali Khamenei of Iran. These dictators would be pleased but not appeased. Offers of [conditional] compromises do not tempt them. Outreached [and threatening] hands in search of unclenched fists hold no appeal. They recognize and respect power – nothing else. Trust me: If Mr. Putin comes out on top in the current conflict, he’ll use the revenue from oil sales to build back a better militarily and pursue the restoration of the Russian Empire. He’ll also utilize Ukrainian resources – both natural and human”.

 

What this reveals is that Clifford May looked at himself in the mirror, saw all that indicates he is a warmonger, and attributed it to the people and regimes he detests. But what is his end game anyway? Here, as he described it in poetic terms, is what Clifford May and those behind him want:

 

“Much of the materiel we’re sending to Ukraine is drawn from existing stockpiles. Money spent on new and improved equipment bolsters the US defense industrial base. That base has been in steep decline since the end of the Cold War. The US defense industry also is expected to receive billions of dollars in new orders from European countries to replace materiel they transferred to Ukraine. Support for Ukraine is modernizing American forces and those of America’s allies while building US defense industrial capacity. Deterrence doesn’t come cheap, but it’s a bargain compared to what it costs when our enemies see us as weak and decide to take a shot”.

 

Given that we still live in the age of the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), there is not going to be a nuclear confrontation between the existing superpowers or those still in the making. Clifford May and those behind him at Jewish Central know it, which makes it so that they want to transform America from the economic plantation it has been for Israel to the military industrial base they want it to become.

 

These people never give up.