On July 24, 2012, the eve of his departure to Israel and a
couple of other places, Mitt Romney who is running to be president of the
United States of America and commander-in-chief of its armed forces, gave a
speech to the veterans of foreign wars at the annual convention held in Reno.
The first thing that he said after the customary salutation and acknowledgments
was that the veterans of foreign wars number more than two million. Wow! Two
million? You don't have to be an American, and you don't have to be a veteran
to be affected by the enormity of this number. Thus, you expect to hear the
wannabe commander-in-chief say something about it; say whether or not he
understands the needs of these people and whether or not he has plans for them.
But you hear nothing like that from this candidate even
though on the day before, Barack Obama who is the sitting President, was at the
same convention telling the same veterans how well he understands their
problems, how deeply committed he was to solving them and what he has done
already to alleviate their hurt as well as attend to their needs. Not
surprisingly, the list he enumerated was no less massive than the number of
veterans. It included the medical attention that many of these people need. The
pension reforms that some are entitled to and deserve to have. The retraining
for a gainful employment in the new economy that some of them desperately need.
The hiring of veterans that the government has done, can still do and will do.
And the encouragement that the Administration is doing to get the private
sector to hire veterans.
None of this gave Mitt Romney a hint as to what was expected
of him. Instead, he told the veterans they have “a special place in America 's
heart” without telling them how this will translate into maintaining the
programs that were started by the sitting President, or telling them how he
will improve on those that may need improvement. Ignoring all that, Romney told
the veterans only this: “Our veterans are part of a proud tradition that
stretches back to the battlefields of Lexington
and Concord-- ”
Which led him to say the following a little later on: “But we owe our veterans
... more than just an accounting of our successes. They deserve a fair and
frank assessment of the whole picture – of where we are and where we want to
be.”
That's it? you say to yourself. He came to tell the
veterans: we love you with all our hearts, and here is what we want you to do
in the future. Is that all he came to tell the veterans? Apparently yes, but he
has a preamble to begin with. It is this: “the last few years have been a time
of declining influence and missed opportunities.” What are these? you ask. And
he says they are the bad economy, the inability to shape world events, the loss
of confidence among allies and loss of respect among adversaries. But he hints
this is small potato because: “most importantly, has the most severe security
threat facing America and
our friends, a nuclear-armed Iran ,
become more or less likely?”
He assures the audience: “These clear measures are the
ultimate tests of American leadership.” He chides the sitting President for not
living up to them and lists a litany of the latter's failures. Following that,
he concludes: “The world is dangerous, destructive, chaotic. And the two men
running to be your commander-in-chief must offer their answers.” Oh finally,
you think to yourself, he is going to say something concrete. Here it comes:
“Like a watchman in the night, we must remain at our post --” What? Like a
watchman in the night? Hey Mitt, cut the platitudes and show us the meat.
Where's the meat?
But there is no meat because all he has to offer are more
platitudes which he interlaces with a series of anti-Obama diatribes. He keeps
throwing the platitudes and the diatribes till he hits the subject of Iran , the nation he earlier characterized as
being the most severe security threat facing America and its friends. And this
is what he says on that subject: “the president faltered when the Iranian people
were looking for support in their struggle against the ayatollahs.” He calls
that moment a moral and strategic opportunity which the President should have
seized to offer “unequivocal voice … affirming their right to be free.”
Well, those of us who are old enough to remember what
happened during the Hungarian uprising in the Nineteen Fifties and a few more
uprisings after that -- when the Americans and other Western European powers
offered unequivocal voice affirming the right of the people in revolt to be
free -- will never again want to hear the voice of a president or anyone else
cheering someone and leading them to keep fighting past the point of
exhaustion. This may be in the strategic interest of America in the short run but it is
detrimental to it in the long run, and criminal in every sense of the word from
the moral standpoint. It is criminal because it gives people a false hope and
invites them to commit suicide which may embarrass the oppressors but also
creates a reason for the cheerleaders to celebrate a cowardly victory. You
sacrifice thousands of innocent lives for the opportunity to beat your breast
like a gorilla?
Yet, we keep hearing voices that relentlessly call on the
American president to do just that. And we keep reading the same message being
hammered over and over in the print publications. So we ask: Who are the people
responsible for this? And what do they really want? Well, these are the people
who make-up the Jewish lobby in America .
What they want is serve their numerous causes, foremost among which are the
wealth, power and glory of Israel .
Don't they already get what they want from America ? Yes they do. But they have
an insatiable hunger for something else; something they can never get enough
of.
To see this in the starkest possible of ways, we turn our
attention to a later moment on that day -- a few hours after Romney had
finished giving his speech. It happened on the CNN show called “The Situation
Room” with Wolf Blitzer where two guests, one from the Obama campaign and one
from the Romney campaign bickered about who will be better for Israel. The
Obama representative said the President has armed Israel to the teeth, has financed
it to the hilt, defended it in every forum around the world, provided for its
protection against any possible attack and so on and so forth. Yes, said the
man from the Romney campaign, the President did do all these things but he
missed out on the most important thing. What's that? you ask. Obama did not
speak out well enough about Israel ,
said the man.
What's this all about? you ask. What's going on here? Well,
what is going on now is something that has been going on for thousands of
years. These people believe they are the chosen children of God. That God used
to appear to mortals in the old days but He no longer does so now. In His
absence, they must be worshiped like He would have been. This is why they
worked on a number of insane pastors, and convinced them to go on television
and tell their flocks of emotionally worn out sheep to worship the Jew as a
God.
But what good does that do to the agenda of the Jewish
lobby? Well, my dear, here is the answer unfolding before your very eyes on the
television screen. You see representatives of the two campaigns, each pledging
to better serve the Jewish state. The fact is that when a notion is hammered
into the head of the children of America that they can only say good things
about the Jews and Israel, and never criticize them, the children grow up to
become the natural slaves of the Jews and of Israelis without the need to place
shackles around their necks or their ankles. They, on their own, will impose
the state of slavery on themselves because they will see it as the natural
thing to do.
Thus, for the Obama representative to boast that the
President has armed Israel to the teeth, financed it to the hilt, defended it
in every forum around the world, provided for its protection against any
possible attack and the rest of it -- does not compare to the reality that the
Wolf Blitzer Situation Room is more powerful that the Situation Room at the
White House from where the nation of America was meant to be run. There is
nothing that the President can do that Blitzer cannot undo if the first dares
to act on something in a way that goes contrary to the interests of Israel or
the Jewish causes. Get it through your heads, folks; it is not an accident or a
joke that they chose to call that television show the Situation Room. They
conceived this thing to allow them to run America
and the world from it because they consider the elected President to be only a
figurehead with the real power being in the kingdom
of Israel while Wolf Blitzer in America acts as
the executive viceroy.
Do you think Romney understands any of this? Of course he
does, and he is willing to give them exactly what they want. Look what he said
in his speech: “I will leave … on a trip … that will take me to … Israel … I
think of this administration's shabby treatment of one of our finest friends.
President Obama is fond of lecturing Israel 's leaders.” The reference
here is to the day when Netanyahu lectured the President in the White House and
practically urinated on his rug to then go and get 29 standing ovations in the
Congress for a job well done.
Well done? No there is better than that, says Romney: it may
look like Netanyahu lectured Obama but because Obama did not, in response, kiss
Netanyahu's ring, it is as if he lectured his guest. I shall strive to do
better than that because Israel
is not a leech sucking our blood; it is our finest friend. I shall arm Israel to the
teeth, finance it to the hilt, defend it in every forum around the world,
provide for its protection against any possible attack and more than that, I
shall praise it and praise the Jews like the gods that they are.
Romney dispenses with a few more platitudes which include
the promise to involve America
in another hemorrhaging war in the Middle East such as going against Iran , for
example. He then ends the speech with this bark: Believe in America .
And the people are asking: Whose America? That of King Netanyahu
or his viceroy Wolf Blitzer?