Friday, April 8, 2016

Mental Cases banging Nonsense on Keyboards

Fred Fleitz is a member at the Center for Security Policy. This is an outfit that was founded by a family of crackpots who believe there is a mythical Muslim creature out there – perhaps a shape shifter – waiting in the wings for the right moment to strike at Christianity and finish it off.

Apparently, the patriarch of this belief – now a movement – was a Catholic who thought he was persecuted by the Protestants. He started to formulate conspiracy theories about the Protestants trying to finish off the Catholics the way they used to do it in previous centuries. But when he saw that this approach will not get him anywhere, he modified the theory by discarding the Protestants and implicating the Muslims instead. This made the Jews his natural allies, and so he began to sing from their song sheet.

The Center began to recruit like-minded people from all persuasions who nevertheless adhere to the common belief that a Muslim threat exists out there whose goal is to finish off Christianity, Judaism, America and Israel ... and then take over the world. One of those recruits is Fred Fleitz whose writings reflect that predilection. The latest product to come out of his keyboard is titled: “The Enormous Fraud of the Iran Deal Is Catching Up with Obama,” published on April 7, 2016 in National Review Online.

Aside from the fact that there is nothing new in this piece of work, a few things can be pointed out about it. (1) It paints the Obama Administration as a nest of conspirators in cahoots with the mythical Muslim being that's trying to destroy America. (2) It seeks to create fear in the hearts of the public – not only in the sense that they are being betrayed by foreign and domestic conspirators, but that they will sooner or later be bombed into oblivion. (3) Fleitz is inciting the Congress, now investigating a number of matters, to dismantle what Barack Obama has wrought, and pave the way for a new paradigm to emerge.

First – the author implies that the Obama-Iran conspiracy has worked so well “it is too late to reverse the administration's policy of offering concessions [to Iran] – including $100 billion in sanctions relief.” This happened, he says, because the negotiations that produced the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA) “were an endless series of fallacies and deceptions.” But take heart, he goes on to say because “Obama officials made several misleading statements about JCPOA that have come back to haunt them”.

That does not mean we should all relax, says Fred Fleitz. This is because there is no language barring missile tests in the JCPOA. What there is, he adds, are U.N. and U.S. missile sanctions. The trouble is that these too have not remained in place despite what Obama officials are saying. He explains that Security Council Resolution 2231 lifted those sanctions and replaced them with weaker language calling on Iran not to test missiles. And this, says Fleitz, is a formulation that cannot be enforced under Chapter Seven, which deals with sanctions and the use of military force.

Second – that being the case, Iran is now free to continue developing missiles that can carry nuclear weapons, says the author. The Muslim country will also be allowed to develop the weapons in question in a few years time under the provisions of the JCPOA, he goes on to say. And look what Iran has done, he complains; it has tested missiles on whose side were written the words “Israel must be wiped off the earth”.

But that last assertion is a lie, my friend. The fact is that the Iranians did not write “off the earth.” They wrote “off history.” And there is a difference between the two. 'Off the earth' would have meant bomb Israel out of existence. 'Off history' refers to the fact that the history of Palestine is now written through Jewish eyes.

But because the current demographic situation cannot be maintained for long, the day is fast approaching when the Palestinians will be a majority in their own country again. And they will write their history through their own eyes, supplanting the Jewish history that's forced on them against their will.

Third – To make sure that the Iranians will not be around to see that day when it comes, Fred Fleitz wants to manufacture a situation under which the paradigm will change, and Chapter Seven will be invoked. America will then be in a position to bomb Iran into the Stone Age.

This can only happen, he says, if the Congress nullifies the JCPOA, a move that will force the Iranians to develop the means to defend themselves. That's when Fleitz and people like him will start urging America to engage not only Iran but all of Islam, and wipe them off history as well as off the earth.

Speaking of the Congressional investigation, this is how Fleitz put it: “If the investigation exposes the JCPOA as a fraudulent agreement, it will pave the way for a Republican president to throw it entirely,” thus create a situation in which Chapter Seven will feature prominently in the debates to come.