John Podhoretz says: “President Obama and his administration
are running off the rails.” He probably believes it for the simple reason that
he does not know what it means to be on the rails or off them. He was never on
them because his father never put him there, which makes it the responsibility
of all of us to do what his father failed to do. Or at least show him how to
get there and stay there.
His latest foray into the world of the grownups and the
mature came under the title: “American incompetence in a world spinning out of
control,” published in the New York Post on October 1, 2014. Well, the
expectation is that this Podhoretz kid will grow up someday and learn that the
world has not been spinning out of control in this era of ours anymore than it
had in previous eras. And this makes it so that American competence or lack of
it has no more bearing on what happens to the world than say, someone wearing
black or brown shoes on a Wednesday. The thing is totally irrelevant anyway you
look at it.
Still, to get to the conclusion that Obama and his
administration are running off the rails, Podhoretz begins with the observation
that “an intruder made his way across the White House lawn and through the
building.” Guess what John, it happened here in Canada
too where no visitors are even allowed to visit the Prime Minister's residence
like they do the White House in America .
And do you know what else happened in Canada ? Unlike America , the
intruder was not stopped by a Secret Service officer on or off duty. He was
scared off by the aging Prime Minister who used some kind of kitchen utensil
and jabbed him in the ribs with it ... if I remember correctly. Now, tell me,
John: Is this news chilling enough for you to represent “a kind of melodramatic
movie scenario come true”?
If the answer is no you're not chilled yet, maybe the
following will do it. A clown disguised as Usama Bin Laden made it into the
royal palace in London , England not long after the 9/11 incident in America . Are
you chilled yet? Well, how about this one: The Secret Service in Britain that
failed to stop the clown one day, mistook one of the princes for an intruder
another day and arrested him inside his own palace. Chilled yet?
Well, listen John, let me advise you that if you're not
chilled by these stories but you are by what happened in Washington … there can be only one
explanation. It is that you have been wired to see everything relating to the
President of your country as inferior while seeing everything foreign as
superior. The clinical description for this condition is that you have been
brainwashed. The question is by whom? And why? You answer that; I won't.
Another thing that is planted in this kid's head, my friend,
is a method of reasoning that has roots in only the Jewish ideology. Here it is
expressed in his own words: “This seems to crystallize a more general feeling
that stretches from Washington
to the far reaches of the globe.” This is a fantasy to the effect that the
American President has a magic wand he can wave and make happen anything,
anywhere in the world. But Obama is not waving it in his view because he is
incompetent. This is why the storm is gathering and why he feels the chill in
his spine. The kid needs help – serious, intensive help.
After citing a number of instances at home which he says
point to the incompetence of this President, he turns his attention to the
international scene where apparently, the storm is gathering … enough of it to
chill him. Quoting someone from another publication, he says this: “an
airstrike from the coalition nearly hit a command-and-control facility with the
moderate rebels that the administration says are America 's 'boots on the ground.'”
Well, John Podhoretz is old enough to remember the many instances
when “friendly fire” killed American and coalition troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan . If a near hit on a
friendly installation is going to chill him, it may be that he needs to earn a
living in some other fashion. Panic, even by a journalist can be detrimental to
the morale of everyone – and that's no way to participate in running a country.
All in all, this kid was not raised to serve his country. He
was raised to serve an ideology that originated with the cavemen of biblical
times; an ideology that was handed down through the generations to the current
one. And the lesson to draw is that he and others like him must be straightened
out before they take down the structure of the American superpower, thus
endanger the world and everyone in it.