Sunday, July 24, 2016

Lies more virulent than a thousand deaths

One senseless death is painful not only for the loved ones by for all of humanity. It is even more painful when committed by terror. But that's not the worst that can happen. When someone tells a lie that can result in multiple deaths, the pain is compounded proportionately. When the lie is committed by someone in a fiduciary position, it is compounded exponentially.

Unfortunately and painfully so, this is the kind of lie that Bridget Johnson has committed. As a contributor to the publicly funded National Public Radio (NPR,) she has fiduciary obligations that go beyond those of commercial broadcasters. As a fellow with the Hayman Salomon Center and PJ Media, her obsession is Israel, always Israel and no one but Israel. This means she will tell any lie, cost America any price and cause any number of deaths if that will serve the interests of Israel. Is this a conflict of interest? You judge and let NPR know.

All of that comes out clearly from reading the article she wrote under the title: “Is ISIS 'on the run'? If so, it's no comfort,” published on July 23, 2016 in the New York Daily News. Her point – which is that of the Jewish establishment – is that the Obama administration is saying the wrong things. And this, my friend, is reminiscent of the Jewish expression: You are antisemitic for saying 'Jewish lobby' instead of 'Israeli lobby,' and you are antisemitic for saying 'Israeli lobby' instead of 'Jewish lobby.' How can that be, you ask?

To see how it happens, we need to recall what the Jewish establishment has been saying all along. It’s been saying that if you mobilize enough American troops and send them to destroy the bases of operation used by the terrorists; you destroy the core of those operations and diminish the appeal of the terror groups. Consequently, they will not be able to recruit new members, and this will bring an end to them. Well, that's what the Obama administration has done, though it did not mobilize as many troops as the Jews would have liked to see.

So now that this mission is nearing completion with apparent success, guess what Bridget Johnson is saying. She is saying she is not comforted because what counts, she argues, is not that ISIS is on the run from something, but that it is running toward something. And that, she says, is the result of a miscalculation committed by the Obama administration.

But did she offer an alternative? Not on your life. Jews do not counsel anything that would end or win wars, they only counsel how to start them … and they leave it at that. On second thought, amend that to say, she could not help but take a mocking shot at the administration on her way out. Here it is: “But does the threat really get more diffuse the further away it is from some imagined core”? As you may have observed, whereas the core was the be-all and end-all, it is now only an imagined core. But she is not saying who was imagining things.

And here is how she ends her article: “Rather than hyping where terrorists are running from, America's greater focus should be on where they are running to.” What she says here is this: Stop making empirical observations with regard to what happens on the ground, and start speculating as to what the terrorists may be thinking, and where that will lead them.

She says this much because in Jewish philosophy, it is a sin to tell the truth based on what you observe. Also, it is a virtue to wish something, to speculate that it will happen, and then convince those who will listen to you that your speculation will come true. If you do that, you elevate yourself to the level of a rabbi. In fact, this is how the Jews – rabbis or otherwise – convinced the American Congress of brain-dead zombies that Israel taught America how to design and produce drones, and that it made the Palestinian desert bloom.

Why all this? What is Bridget Johnson after? What is the Jewish establishment trying to achieve? Well, they are laboring to expand the current war and turn it into a perpetual one. They are terrified by the fact that ISIS is taking a beating in Iraq and Syria. They are also terrified that the Horn of Africa, West Africa and North Africa have quieted down considerably. And they are terrified that the only instruments left to root for the “strong horse” of bin Laden are the Jewish publications – which include NPR.

They want to put an end to the successes being scored by the Obama administration because they speculate that the next administration will see the world the way they see it. Adhering to their religious philosophy, they believe that their speculations will materialize and become reality. When this happens, they envisage being handed the world to govern as they see fit – in fulfillment of the divine promise made to them in their dreams.