Sunday, September 11, 2016

Father and Daughter illiterates in History

If you want to understand history, you need to learn how to spot and decode waves, trends and movements of forces. These would be forces of ideas, beliefs and at times, even science and technology.

Most pundits have little or no understanding of that process and yet, try to predict what will happen in the future based on what they say is their understanding of history. Well, even if they did understand history as well as they should, they could not predict the future as accurately as they pretend they can. But not knowing how history develops, and trying to predict the future based on such ignorance is truly an act of criminal charlatanism.

Criminal charlatanism is what the father and daughter team of Dick and Liz Cheney have produced with the article they wrote under the title: “Dangers Rise as America Retreats and the subtitle: “Fifteen years after 9/11, the next president will face greater risks and a weaker military to combat them.” It was published on September 10, 2016 in the Wall Street Journal. With this article, they establish themselves as illiterates in history.

Looking back at history, it must be said that America acted normally when it expressed misgivings about participating in the two world wars of the twentieth century. It also acted normally and legitimately when it later reversed the decision, and decided to participate. It did so in reaction to acts of aggression committed against it with the sinking of the Lusitania during WW I, and the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor during WW II.

America succeeded brilliantly in both wars but then became victim of its own success. Believing it became the sword of a superior morality in a world that was populated by hooligans, it started the Korean War to impose a world order it had no business messing with. The result was – surprise surprise – America failed to do as well against the ragtag armies of impoverished Asian peasants, as it had done earlier against the organized and massive war machines of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan.

That's when two parallel trends began to take shape almost simultaneously. One trend was America's inability to understand the difference between what motivated the Nazi, Fascist and Japanese hierarchies to go to war, and what motivated the people who fought wars of liberation … especially those that had previously suffered from imperialism and subjugation. The other trend was the understanding that America's allies were gaining as they watched that country perform diplomatically and militarily around the world. They were developing apprehension regarding what they considered was America's penchant for adventurism.

In fact, the British were the first to take advantage of that understanding. Even before the full synthesis of the trend, Winston Churchill who witnessed America's performance during WW I, instinctively knew he had a good shot at maintaining British relevance post WW II by pitting America against the Soviet Union. He did so by convincing the American brass to initiate a Cold War. The Americans did, and the war gradually intensified with time to take on the character of a hot war.

The French were next to take advantage of what was becoming an obvious American weakness of character. Bogged down in Vietnam trying to maintain a colonial rule where people hungered for freedom, and convinced that they were about to lose decisively, the French called on America to take charge of the Vietnam boondoggle. America did, and suffered the first hot war defeat waged under the aegis of the Cold War.

After Britain and France came the Jews. They did at a time when the Cold War between America and the Soviet Union was getting hotter on another front. The Soviets had made the colossal mistake of intervening in Afghanistan, and that's where a battlefield sprung up to host a hot proxy war between the two superpowers. But unlike the British and the French whose expatriates in America played no role in advancing the agenda of the “old” country, the Jewish “Diaspora” played a major role in taking advantage of the situation to advance the agenda of the nascent country of Israel.

The Jews got into the business of pitting America against the Arab and Muslim worlds for the benefit of Israel. Their gamble has paid off immensely up to now, but the well is drying up. This is why prominent Americans that have a skeleton in the closet – hidden from the public but known to the Jews – are being instructed to tell the public that America must continue to make itself useful for Israel.

That's how the Cheneys were drawn into the Jewish battle; it is what their latest article is all about. If you wonder, it is worth no more than the rag in which it is printed.