There are times when it is useful to remember what President
John Kennedy said to the nation on his inaugural: “Ask not what your country
can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” The usefulness stems
from the fact that the saying can be paraphrased and used in those places and
those moments when we get used to one way of doing things and lose the ability
to see that the status quo can no longer be sustained. We let the opportunities
slip by at a time when a different approach would have set things straight for
us, and the exact opposite approach would have set them even straighter.
The moment is now and the place is the Middle East where
America must stop asking Israel's neighbors to do this or do that for it – and
do it at a time when it is obvious that Israel is the one that must be asked to
do things in relation to its neighbors as well as refrain from doing other
things if it is to be welcomed into the neighborhood. What must not be
forgotten is that the neighborhood was once regarded as being an image of
paradise; one that was unfortunately transformed into a hellish place with the
injection into it of the foreign entity called Israel by the big powers of the
day.
What seems to complicate matters further is that North America is showing signs of going through a period
you might call the age of the “robot banging on the keyboard.” It is a weird
age during which the computer is becoming more intelligent while the human that
is banging on its keyboard is becoming more robotic. In fact, the computers are
becoming more sophisticated at correcting the spelling and grammatical errors,
while the humans are becoming more robot-like at echo-repeating in one place
the stereotypes they hear about in another place, even if what they repeat does
not apply where they use it.
And the echo they always repeat with regard to the Middle
East is that Israel 's
neighbors must alter their attitude toward Israel
because when it comes to international relations, Israel has always maintained the
correct norm while the neighbors have always been out of line. And this idea is
so entrenched in the American subculture that no one in America fails
to mention it, let alone take the time to reflect on it or question it. You can
see an example of this in the New York Times editorial that came under the
title: “Iran 's
Charm Offensive” and was published on January 25, 2014.
What follows is the mind boggling passage which tells you
that the editors of the New York Times are suffering from a severe case of
dyslexia of the moral compass: “Iran
must also be seen as contributing to stability in other ways, including ending
the hostility toward Israel .”
So here you have an American publication telling Iran
to be good to Israel at a
time when Israel is adopting
a most belligerent posture towards Iran .
And the way that Israel
executes what it plans is by sending instructions to its army of echo repeaters
who are strewn around North America , including
the offices of the New York Times. Israel
instructs these people to incite the Congress of the Immature and the Useless,
urging it to initiate a chain of events that will lead to the American military
raiding Iran
and destroying it.
Sickened by what you see, you join the civilized world and
ask aloud: What are these people asking the Iranians to do? Kiss every Jew they
encounter and thank him or her for being so belligerent towards Iran ? Are these
people mad? Are they screwed up in the head? Have they got their emotions so
disturbed, they cannot relate emotionally to what is right or what is wrong?
In looking at their multi-pronged seemingly insoluble
problems, the Americans are slowly discovering that most problems have one and
the same source; the deterioration of their culture. Where the Americans have
not as yet put their finger is the reason why the culture is deteriorating at
such a rapid rate. Sooner or later they will find that a subculture has latched
onto their culture, and like a parasite, has been sucking the life out of it.