Sunday, October 20, 2013

Stupidity Mistaken for Superior Intelligence

Norm Coleman is someone who seems on the surface to understand the situation – perhaps because he had a hand at shaping it – and yet, here he is trying to fix what he admits have been the unintended consequences of bad policies. The sad part is that he is doing so with a forked tongue – as would say the natives here in North America. You get a sense of all this reading the article he wrote under the title: “U.S. must champion democracy in Egypt” and published in the Washington Post on October 18, 2013.

Speaking about America's decision to review its relationship with Egypt, Coleman begins the article by saying that the decision “adds ... ambiguity to a Middle East policy that has yielded mostly unintended consequences rather than stability and hope.” The two key words here are “adds” and “ambiguity.” To say that ambiguity was added is to admit that ambiguity was there already, and that the new decision has made matters worse. And why is that? Because the stated intent was to foster stability and hope in the Middle East but the unintended consequences yielded an opposite result.

Whether Norm Coleman used the word ambiguity consciously or unconsciously, the reference here is to the Israeli religious adherence to pursuing a set of ambiguous policies in the Middle East. This tradition translates into saying something and doing another thing – usually the opposite – which signals to the observer that these people believe that ambiguity is the mark of a superior intelligence because it has the power to confuse those of inferior intelligence.

And he, being one of the staunchest supporters of Israel, and a diaspora architect that helped to shape the Jewish-Zionist-Israeli policies, it is reasonable to conclude that he must have had a strong influence on how the policy of ambiguity was formulated and implemented by Israel as well as the Jewish lobby in America.

So the question: What did the policy of ambiguity look like with regard to the relationship with Egypt? Here again, you find the answer in the Coleman article not because he gave it in a straightforward and honest manner but because he spoke with a forked tongue once again. Here is that passage: “Now is the time to pull Egypt … a key U.S. ally in the region.” Did he say a key U.S. ally? Wow! You would not have thought so had you been reading what the Jewish lobby, the hundreds upon hundreds of mouthpieces, and the echo chamber followers were mouthing off all those years.

I responded to as many of those characters as I could, and you'll find my articles in the archives of this website, shown on the right side of the page. It is that these authors came out waving the red flag and yelling at the American administration, telling it to stop sending money and weapons to Egypt. They said so whether the country was governed by Mubarak, by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) or by the Brotherhood. Yes, that's how the Jews were telling America to treat a key ally at a time when Israel was enjoying the benefit of having a normal relationship with Egypt – what Coleman now says was there all the time. Is this the mark of a superior intelligence or is it that of an inferior intelligence? You decide.

And there is something that can help you decide. It is that Norm Coleman did not end his article at this point. What he did is give advice in a language which, if you look at it closely, you'll find it to be the product of the same mentality which produced the ambiguous policies of the past. Instead of doing this, he should have gone up to the highest rooftop in the city, beat his breast like a King Kong and shouted: WE WAS WRONG. But that's not what he did because he had something else in mind; he accused the Obama administration of not adjusting to reality, which he says is adding to Egypt's instability.

What? Hold your horses, man! First of all, a mind that is formed by ambiguity can never tell what reality looks like. Second, if there is instability in Egypt, America's posture will not stabilize it. Third, if Coleman chooses to characterize what is happening in Egypt as instability, the fact that America kills in peace time as many of its own people in a month as were killed in an Egyptian revolution that lasted two and a half years, says that America is the very definition of instability. Fourth if, in his view, the political give-and-take in Egypt adds tons of instability to the country, he must hold the view that America's continuing shenanigans in the congress and outside of it add megatons of instability to America.

Still, he goes on to describe a situation in the Middle East that is stereotypical, then gives advice about it which is the opposite of what he and his people have been giving over the years. This is their newly formulated advice: “If the U.S. had a strategy, it would point to supporting Egypt,” to which I can hear millions of Egyptians express a collective sigh of astonishment that goes like this: Oh yeah! And where were you during the last two or three decades?

Undeterred, Coleman goes on to say that the United States badly needs to restore trust and credibility with the Arabs. You know what, my friend? This trust and that credibility existed before the Jewish organizations, headed by the likes of Coleman, spent energies of cosmic dimensions to sabotage.

But now that the Egyptians have had it up to here, and have decided to go their separate way, the architect of destruction sees fit to blame the result of his handiwork on President Obama, then advocates a reversal of his own policies, calling them those of Obama. What can be more Jewish than that?