In an article published in the April 15, 2015 online edition
of the Weekly Standard, Matthew Kroenig explains what, for decades, had been
America's policy with regard to the subject of nuclear proliferation in the
world, and what he believes it has now become. The article is published under
the title: “A Nuclear Turning Point” and the subtitle: “The longstanding,
bipartisan nonproliferation standard is dead.”
For a reason – strange or not – Kroenig frames his views
inside the context of that nebulous something they call 'American
bipartisanship' as if the world gives a hoot whether a Democrat has voted with
the Republican majority, or that a Republican has voted with the Democratic
majority. The laughable irony – if not a sickening irony – is that the article
came out on the same day that the Iranians let it be known they made an
agreement not with the United States of America but with the (P5+1) group of
nations. And that's a long way away from what the American Democrats or the
American Republicans are said to believe in.
The thing they call bipartisanship means something in
America that eludes the people who live outside of its boundaries. In America
it means that the Jews have spoken, and every American is on notice they must
shut up. To the outside world, however, American bipartisanship has come to
mean that the Jews have flushed America's credibility down the tube, and that
all the nations out there must now speak and act as if America was irrelevant
or non-existent.
Thus, you can imagine how the world must be reacting to the
first sentence in the Kroenig article: “If there is one thing on which
Democrats and Republicans can agree, it is that it is undesirable for countries
other than the United States to possess nuclear weapons.” And then you add to
this notion the demonstrated “bipartisan” support for America to stand by
Israel as it tells the world it may or may not have nuclear weapons, and will
not come clean because ambiguity is a cornerstone of Jewish ideology they call
religion. Yes, the world says: piss on America and its newly acquired bosses.
Look at this passage: “When it became clear that Pyongyang
had been … enriching uranium, Washington sought to shut that program down,
demanding 'complete, verifiable, and irreversible disarmament.'” And this
passage: “Washington 's
position sat in uneasy tension with the 'inalienable right' to peaceful nuclear
technology, but when superpower is willing to enforce its interpretation of
international law, it can have a profound effect.”
Now contrast this with the Jewish song still ringing in the
ears of foreigners: “We may or may not have nuclear weapons but will not come
clean because ambiguity is the cornerstone of our Jewish religion.” Yes,
indeed, says the world, it is time to piss on America and its newly acquired
bosses.
As if all of that were not enough, look at this passage:
“Perhaps more important, the Iran deal sets a dangerous precedent. The United
States is making this exception not for any country, but for Iran, a
longstanding U.S. enemy...” Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Wait a minute. Precedent? What
Iranian precedent? What about the Jewish precedent of Israel that preceded the
Iranian precedent? Does that count for something or not?
Is Kroenig saying that what makes the Iranian example a
precedent is the fact that Iran is an enemy of the US whereas Israel is not?
How does he think this notion will sit with a world that views Iran as having
been the victim of American meddling since the middle of the last century, and
the victim of America's ally, Saddam Hussein, who used American technology to
gas Iranian troops and Kurdish civilians? Yes, indeed, it is time to piss on
America and its newly acquired bosses.
Kroenig goes on: “It will be difficult for Washington to
explain that it trusts Tehran but not other countries [who] will demand similar
rights, further weakening the nonproliferation standard.” Well, this would not
have been such a trivial thing to say – coming from an American – if it had
included: Tehran
and Tel Aviv.