Sunday, April 19, 2015

If only he understood the Message of Mattis

Without saying what he believes the message is, William Kristol presents as a “must-read,” excerpts from the message that General James Mattis gave while addressing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars – a message that was carried earlier in the Wall Street Journal. Kristol made his presentation in an article under the title: “A Message From Mattis,” which he published on April 18, 2015 in the Weekly Standard.

In case William Kristol did not understand the Mattis message … perhaps the reason why he came up with a trick to get the public involved and help him understand it, I offer my humble effort to help the all-knowing half-Jew understand what the gentile soldier was saying. Simply put, the General was telling the veterans not to be cynical because: “We know that cynicism is another way to give up … consider[ed] as cowardice.”

The four-star General went on to say: “Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.” With this, Mattis has connected together not only cynicism and victimhood but also 'watching the news.' And this was the point he alluded to earlier while reminding the veterans: “When you looked past the hot political rhetoric.”

But why would a veteran be tempted or even forced to give up? Mattis gives one possible reason. It is this: “Most of us lost the best of friends. They proved their manhood at age 18 … never playing the victim card.” He goes on to talk about the American military in which “units where teenagers naturally stood tall.” But then, something happened, he points out. It is that after serving their country and the world, the former teenagers came home into a society “where victimhood often seems to be celebrated.” Wow! Celebrated, he said. But celebrated how, where and by whom? Well, he answered that question at some point: by watching the news.

But where in the news did they speak of teenaged soldiers who became victims of one thing or another? Maybe – just maybe – General Mattis was referring to the whining of the Israelis and their Jewish American supporters who bellyached: “They throw stones at our soldiers. Oh pity me, pity me!”

These characters were moaning their lot not because Israel was arming young soldiers to the teeth, sending them in tanks and armored carriers to terrorize the unarmed civilian population of Palestine – they were moaning because Palestinian mothers, who were protecting their homes and their toddlers, threw stones at the tanks and the armored carriers. Hence the Jewish groaning: They throw stones at our soldiers. Oh pity me, pity me!

Playing the role of victims being the culture by which the Jews win sympathy, the trick spilled over and infested the American culture. Thus, being victim has become the badge of honor that an increasing number of young Americans consider as the thing to wear on their sleeves. In the face of this reality, the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan find it difficult not to despair. They go on to become so cynical as to give up on society, and in many cases give up on life itself. They take their own lives in droves to be out of the misery of having to live in America, a place that is shaped by the Jewish dominated dissemination of the “news”.

Old enough to remember how America was like before the advent of the Jews, and comparing it with what it has become under their rule, the four-star General tells the new veterans that they need to come home “like veterans of all America's wars … we endured nothing more, and nothing less, than vets of past wars.”

Not only does the General want the new veterans to avoid being affected by what is ailing society, he wants them to do more than that. He wants them to set the example that will help heal that society. He tells the returning troops: “This is an area where your example can help our society rediscover its courage and its optimism.” But is this realistic? Can it be done?

The obstacles are formidable. To know what they are, you only need to watch Fox News, the audio-visual sister publication of the Wall Street Journal. This is where the political rhetoric that Mattis has warned against is often developed. For example, they bring the grieving mothers of dead soldiers, promising them that publicity will help, but exploit the helpless women by letting them pour their grieving hearts out … over and over and over again.

They also bring in fake quacks who call themselves “concerned veterans” when the only thing that concerns these charlatans is how to bleed America to feed Israel. And what the quacks do on air is quack the kind of political rhetoric that never saved a veteran on the verge of taking his own life.