Friday, December 20, 2013

Battling Enemies no Riskier than Windmills

The time has long passed when the world can continue to view these machinations as a case of the kid who cried wolf when there was no wolf around to do battle with. The machinations are clearly a concerted effort that is mounted by a well organized and well financed group with an agenda whose main characteristic is that it can be implemented only when the world is permanently on edge or preferably at war. It is time that we recognize this phenomenon for what it is so that we may put an end to it before it puts an end to us.

Another contribution to the already long list of submissions that have been feeding those machinations, was made by Clifford D. May when he added to the pile, a column that came under the title: “Failing to Know Our Enemies” and the subtitle: “Those committed to liberty are our friends for the long haul; those intent on destroying it are not.” Published on December 19, 2013 in National Review Online, the new leg of machinations begins with a quote from a speech that was delivered by John Kennedy during the Cold War. He promised then that America will assure the survival and success of liberty.

Without mentioning or even hinting that there is a difference between our time and that of the Kennedy era, the author defines the deficiencies in America's current posture by asking a series of questions that may have been partially relevant in the Kennedy era but are irrelevant today. Here they are: Are the Kennedy assurances our credo today? Are Americans committed to liberty? Can our friends rely on us? Do foes have reason to fear us? What are we to do about those that profess friendship but ingratiate themselves with our foes?

What this indicates is that Clifford May and those of his ilk have a mindset rooted in a Cold War that was a mistake to have been in the first place, and has vanished some time ago in any case. It was Winston Churchill who first realized that Britain will never again be a superpower, and that America was destined to inherit the mantle. To make sure that Britain will continue to cohabit the mantle with the newcomer, Churchill came up with the idea of warning the Americans about the danger that the Soviet Union was posing. America listened and the era of the Cold War was triggered.

As planned by Churchill, Britain played the role of piloting America through uncharted waters that were made dangerous not by the intent of the Soviet Union as falsely predicted by Churchill, but because of the random incidents that materialized by the very fact the Churchill Cold War was in progress. And so, Churchill turned out to be not a prophet but a real life incarnation of Don Quixote. He got America to battle enemies it thought were riskier than windmills but were not.

A decade or two later, seeing how well the Churchill trick had worked for Britain, the self appointed Jewish honchos decided to use the same trick to advance their own agenda. They told the Americans that the Arab countries were dangerous, and that Israel was willing to play a role that will protect America not from the non-existent Arab armies but from a possible rise in the price of oil. The song they sang continually was to the effect that Israel can help lower the already cheap price of oil.

The honchos of World Jewry added that in return for doing the work, Israel will need money, weapons and diplomatic cover to get on with the business of making the people of America enjoy cheap oil for ever and ever. America gave without restraint; Israel took without shame but delivered nothing to America. It did, however, deliver a great deal of heartache to the people of the region, a situation that forced the Arabs to respond by jacking up the price of oil from 2.6 dollars a barrel where it was to 28 dollars a barrel in a matter of months. And the price has been going higher ever since.

Because history never stops evolving, the Jewish players of the Churchill game found themselves compelled to constantly update the nature of the threat they say the Arabs – and later the Muslims – pose to America and to the West. This brings us to the following passage in the May column: “The ideologies most hostile to America and the West have arisen in what we have come to call the Muslim world.” It was a convenient shift because Islam was the nexus that allowed him to single out Iran – the current preoccupation of the Jews – and write about it. And so he discussed the Iran nuclear program.

He went on to say that these are the current real enemies of America. But he did not stop here. Instead, he did something that shows how much he is gripped by the mentality of a Cold War which used to place the nations of the world into one of two columns “friends” or “foes.” Apparently baffled by what he sees happening today which does not conform to that formula, he asks: “But what are we to make of those nations that are not against us – but also are not with us?” He names Russia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

I can only say to him that he should stop going in circles like the blades of a windmill which go round and round and round without ever stopping. Take a rest, Cliff, and then look at the beauty of the world that is out there. It contains no scary wolves and no monstrous windmills, just people who wish to live in peace with a neighbor that is not bent on skunking them to a stinky death.