Fred Fleitz is foaming at the
mouth trying to tell the world that President Obama let Ben Rhodes run the
foreign policy of the nation rather than adopt the George W. Bush model of
letting Israel's Nathan Sharansky and the so-called children of Holocaust
survivors, do the honor. To express his disappointment, Fleitz wrote: “The
Sycophantic Political Operative Shaping Obama's Foreign Policy,” an article
that was published on May 9, 2016 in National Review Online.
Fleitz can foam all he wants but
he knows nothing of what he's talking about, and he convinces no one of what
he's saying. After all, the world knows that Ben Rhodes did not recommend the
destruction of Iraq or Syria, and neither was he responsible for the death of
nearly a million people or the destitution of millions more. What Barack Obama
may be guilty of, and what Ben Rhodes has embraced is the dullness of peaceful
coexistence among nations. This is what exasperates bloodthirsty Fred Fleitz
and all those like him. Let them suffer.
The Bush doctrine relied on old
hands such as those that designed the invasion of Iraq a decade before it
happened … and did it at a time when W. Bush was still experimenting with
marijuana and other hallucinatory drugs. He grew up eventually, ran for
election and won. The first big thing he did after inauguration is that he ran
around the globe like a headless chicken, and tried to shove the Sharansky
witches' brew they call democracy down the throats of the Arabs and the Chinese.
Instead of accepting this evil baton and run with it – having succeeded Bush –
Barack Obama did something infinitely more intelligent.
First, he surrounded himself with
the people that knew how to hunt for and get Osama Bin Laden … and do the other
things that decimated the leaderships of both al-Qaeda and ISIS. Second, he
recognized that to prevent his foreign policy from being hijacked by those who
take their orders from Sharansky's Likud Party, he needed a highly talented and
very deft hand to liaise with the outside world so as to keep the American
people informed of what he aimed to achieve, and keep the Likud people
misinformed as to how well he was succeeding. Obama saw that Ben Rhodes was the
talent that could fill the bill, and hired him for the position.
What then could Fleitz say that
would diminish the accomplishments of Barack Obama, and denigrate the work of
Ben Rhodes? Well, the first thing he did was conflate the informational loop
which consists of the White House and the general public, with the loop that
consists of the White House and the foreign policy elites such as Fleitz and
the gang. Whereas the public wishes to know the intent of their leaders, the
elites want to see the details so as to create the noise that will paralyze the
ship of state and hand the helm to the Sharanskys and the Likudites of this
world.
And so, he begins the presentation
with this: “the Obama administration lied about the nuclear deal with Iran.” He
then sets out to tell what he insists was the most important lie to come out the
White House. Here it is: “The Obama administration claim[ed] that the nuclear
deal came about in 2013 … even though the most meaningful part of the
negotiations had begun in mid-2012.” Oh gosh, how deceitful!
Deceitful you say? Prove it. How
did the masses react to the news that the negotiations with Iran started a year
earlier than stated? Well, if that was not stated previously, it has now been
so stated, and there is no negative reaction among the general public. The same
cannot be said about the loop comprising Fleitz and the rest of the gang,
however. These characters are foaming and fuming; and they are inciting the
masses to rise and demand that heads roll. But no one is rising, and no one is
drooling.
Having made the false claim that
“the president has allowed his National Security Council (NSC) staff to run his
foreign policy,” Fleitz shoots himself in the foot, telling of John Kerry's
account of what really happened. It is that “intense U.S. diplomacy, including
69 trips across the Atlantic” undertaken by himself and by Hillary Clinton is
what clinched the deal.
That was a revelation Fred Fleitz
could not let stand, and so he dismissed it like this: “efforts by Kerry and
Clinton to get a nuclear deal were irrelevant – a deal was always in the
cards.” Now you know why people take 69 trips across the Atlantic; they do it
to fool the public. Knowing this much is important to you, my friend, which is
why you should thank Fred Fleitz for making it available to you and the rest of
the public.
But that's no laughing matter when
you consider what he and those like him are recommending to the current
president and to the next. To Obama, they say this: “fire Rhodes and others in
the NSC and hire competent advisers.” They mean hire people like those who
engineered the Iraq invasion and the destruction of the Levant.
To the next president, they
recommend this: “hire competent advisers and trust [them] to do their jobs.”
They mean hire people like those who engineered the Iraq invasion and the
destruction of the Levant.