Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Self-serving Worldview that leads nowhere

What more effective way is there to get someone to die for you than to tell them the world is at peril and they can save it. This is how master terrorists recruit young and immature minds to become suicide bombers; it is how they recruit older and mentally deficient volunteers; it is how the Jews have been recruiting the fanatics who started wars for them throughout history, and it is how Josef Joffe is trying to incite America to continue the tradition of setting the world on fire in the hope of triggering the Armageddon of Jewish desires.

To contribute to the effort of doing just that, Joffe wrote: “The Unreality of Obama's Realpolitik,” an article that also came under the subtitle: “With the president unwilling to project U.S. might, Iran and other bad actors rush to exploit the power vacuum.” It was published on February 3, 2015 in the Wall Street Journal.

Well, having exhausted the old means by which he could have nudged America to die for the Jews, Joffe came up with a new approach. Being the intellectual lightweight that he is, however, he shot himself in the foot before he even started the presentation. Here is what he did: He first described what great powers do to maintain order in the world. He then asserted that the description applies to the situation between America and Iran. But having forgotten that this situation has been around for a long time, he described Obama's imagined response to it during the six and a half years that he has been in office, by something that happened less than a year ago.

Here is how Joffe put it: “The retort from Mr. Obama might go like this: Iran is No.1 in the region, and we need its help against Islamic State … So let's be good realpolitikers, especially since it's time for a little nation-building at home.” Well, Josef Joffe my not-so-dear friend, Obama's view about nation building is something he brought to the office since the moment he set foot in it. But the rise of the Islamic State did not happen till very recently. Thus, Obama could not have accommodated Iran to combat the Islamic State way back then when there was no Islamic State. You just shot yourself in the foot, Josef; find someone to care for it before it gets infected.

With this fumble hanging around his neck like an albatross, Joffe starts to make his presentation. It consists of drawing a distinction between what he calls a “revisionist” power that only wants more, and a “revolutionary” power that wants it all. You can accommodate the first, he says, but not the second. He gives the example of Napoleon, the early Soviet Union and Hitler “all of [whom] had to be defeated or contained for decades on end.”

This said, he went on to do the very Jewish thing of exaggerating the way he described what he was seeing. To make an ironclad case against Iran, he said it was both a revisionist power and a revolutionary one too. He couldn't miss with that, could he? It is not like killing two birds with one stone; it is like killing the same bird twice using two stones. So very Jewish, so very Josef Joffe.

Being on the train to doing Jewish things, he now attributes to Muslim Iran what is known to apply to Jews, and to Jewish Israel. He says this: “How do you compromise with Allah?” This is the first time that someone said this thing. It is the bastardized version of the original saying: The Nazis thought of themselves as the master race because of what they accomplished. The Jews think of themselves as the master race because God chose them to be his favorite children. When someone did as well as the Nazis, their contention was compromised and they got off the master race train. But how do you compromise with the God that chose the Jews to be his favorite master race? You can't … and this is why the Jews try to live like a master race, but always die like the race that never made it.

Still on the train of exaggeration, Joffe first blames the rise of Iran on George W. Bush who removed Saddam from the scene, and then says that “Mr. Obama is going one worse.” How is that? Well, says Joffe, it is that Obama counted on diplomacy but reaped stalemate. The neighbors are not amused, and the Russians are eager to exploit the situation both in the Middle East and in Eastern Europe. Hey Josef, ignore the neighbors and the Russians, and please explain how Obama's stalemate (if indeed it is the case) is worse than Bush's removal of Saddam.

No, the author does not care to explain. Instead, he says something about supping with the devil, an analogy he admits is dusty but leads to the lesson that you must keep your powder dry … which is what the U.S. failed to do in the spring of 1945, resulting in the subjugation of Eastern Europe and the subversion of Greece. Turkey, France and Italy … Holy misery; what's that about, Josef? And he responds: “The point is that Mr. Obama is confusing revolutionary Iran with a reasonably revisionist power.”

He goes on: “Hasan Rouhani may be reasonable; Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is not” which is why “Tehran keeps pushing forward all over the Middle East – damn Western sanctions, no matter how hard they bite.”

Well then, what to do, Josef? He does not give a straight answer. Instead, he responds with a riddle: “Power is as power does. Iran knows this … Obama does not.”

Forget about working with your head, Josef … there isn't much there you can work with. Better look for someone who will take care of the foot you just shot.