Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Jewish moral Clarity vs. the new hard Realities

The reason why the American Congress initially connived with a handful of Jews, transferring a good part of the nation's governance to the Jewish lobby, is because the Jews promised to bring relief to the overtaxed brains of the men and women who exhaust themselves mentally running for office. The Jews promised the victims of this so-called democratic process, the kind of moral clarity that will reduce every decision they make to checking point A or checking point B.

And so, in the same way that the grand strategy for dealing with foreigners or with domestic opponents was reduced to the gambit 'you're with us or you're against us,' Jewish moral clarity simplified the world to a point where members of the Congress could see no shades of gray between what was good and what was evil. For this to work, a slew of nouns and adjectives were employed to indicate what was what. For example, freedom being a good word, it was attributed to America's friends. Dictatorship being a bad word, it was attributed to America's enemies.

The gambit worked as long as the world was divided into two spheres, each influenced by one of the two superpowers – one regarded as good; the other as evil. But when the “evil” Soviet Union dissolved, and America became the sole superpower, the force that made the gambit work began to weaken. This prompted the Jews to hurry up and divide the world into two new spheres of influence: one democratic and aligned with America; the other terrorist and bent on destroying America.

Soon, however, things began to get complicated because the world fragmented into a multi-polar state, and a great variety of influences. It is a place where a friend in one set of circumstances can be the enemy in another set of circumstances. It is also a place where my friend's friend can be my enemy; and my enemy's enemy can still be my enemy. It is the new hard reality; the graveyard where simpleton Jewish moral clarity was buried.

This development shook the American intellectual landscape so badly; it surprised those who are old enough to remember a bygone era when people knew instinctively that the world was made of shades of gray. They developed relationships with all kinds of people and all kinds of institutions, each at a different level of trust and friendship. These relationships continued to be maintained whether they turned out to be the friends or enemies of other friends or enemies developed earlier.

So the question now is this: how do you deal with a world that is this complicated from a vantage point at the helm of America's system of governance? Two American Presidents faced this question. The first was George W. Bush who left the governance of America to minions that made a mess of his presidency. The other is the current Barack Obama who employs the “horse sense” that Ronald Reagan was famous for. Reagan followed his instinct rather than the advice emanating from Jewish ideology. So does Barack Obama whose moral clarity makes Jewish morality look, smell and feel like the spray of a skunk.

You can sense the mental anguish suffered by those who grew up bathed in the sea of Jewish moral clarity. Among these are the editors of the Wall Street Journal who wrote a piece under the title: “Shadow Plays in Yemen” and the subtitle: “Obama tries to back Saudi Arabia – but not enough to rile Iran.” It was published on April 22, 2015 in the Journal. Like the subtitle suggests, Obama is trying to establish the correct balance between two poles that can easily tip-over and turn extreme.

Instead of seeing this diplomacy as a kind of wisdom attributable to the horse sense that was known to Reagan, the editors of the journal compare it to the move that was made by his predecessor, Jimmy Carter, a President that also governed with the same kind of horse sense.

But the editors of the Wall Street Journal do not like what they see. They call the Carter move a signal with “not much resolve,” and they speculate that the Saudis will not be impressed by Obama's sending an aircraft carrier to the coast of Yemen without signaling his preparedness to stop Iranian ships, also on their way to Yemen.

From this point on, the editors go on to do all sorts of mental somersaults trying to justify the taking of a hardline against Iran, but collide each time against a reality that is as complex as the following:

“The Saudi move follows rumored back channel talks between Riyadh and Tehran.”

“Mr. Obama has insisted that the nuclear negotiations with Iran will not affect broader U.S. Mideast policy or reshape U.S. regional alliances.”

“In Syria the U.S. has gone out of its way not to hit regime targets.”

“The Administration also reached out to the Houthis as recently as January.”

“Mr. Obama seems to believe that his nuclear concessions will mollify Tehran and moderate its behavior in the region.”

“Would Mr. Obama risk his nuclear deal over a naval incident? The Iranians surely doubt it.”

Any of those moves would have been applauded if made by the “Greatest Generation” that governed America right after Word War Two. History would be discussing them now in glorious terms. But such is not the case with Obama having made those decisions because the sea of Jewish moral clarity flooding America has severely disfigured the current intellectual landscape.

Let not America's moral clarity which is now forming, come to resemble the Jewish moral clarity that died under the weight of a complex multi-polar world, and was buried unceremoniously not long ago.