What do you think is worth more: a pound of organic
fertilizer or a ton of Jewish haggle? You're probably saying you don't know and
you don't care what either is worth. Fair enough. But you will care if someday
a Jew of the Jonathan S. Tobin caliber chooses to be your friend, and decides
that you need his protection.
Oh no, don't get me wrong! I'm not saying Jonathan Tobin
believes you're a democracy and he is a member of the notorious outfit
pretending to defend the democracies of the Western world. It is just that he
wrote a whopping article in almost 1,300 words in which he haggles interminably
a number of ideas that will make you thank the heavens you're not President of
the United States
at this time.
The article came under the title: “Trump Isn't Flip-Flopping
on Iran ”
and was published on April 21, 2017 in National Review Online. The genius of
this guy is that he had an idea; he thought it was a great idea, and he decided
to use it to defend President Donald Trump in an area where the President
doesn't need his defense. This is like gifting someone that has no garden, a
pound of organic fertilizer.
Tobin's original idea that started his chain of thoughts is
that he believed some people are fundamentally evil, and everyone should know
who they are even before they do anything evil. That's the story of the
Iranians, he says. The trouble is that former President Barack Obama never knew
this, Tobin goes on to explain. Had he known – which he should have, being
President – he would have guessed they were going to cheat on the spirit of the
nuclear deal, if not the letter of it, even before they did.
And that's not all, says Tobin, because even if the Iranians
had not cheated, Barack Obama should have known that the deal itself was a bad
one. He should never have negotiated it, and he should never have signed it.
This is what brought Tobin to the realization that the Trump Administration “is
facing up to the implications of the mess Obama left behind.” In fact, this is
the sentence with which Tobin started his article.
What brought this problem to the fore in the eyes of Tobin
is that “Trump acknowledged that Iran is currently in compliance
with the nuclear deal,” and that his critics “smirked” and “guffawed” because
they saw this “as yet another Trump flip-flop.” No, says Tobin, it is not a
flip-flop because “those who focus on Iranian compliance are missing the big
picture.” That's when he started explaining his theory about some people being
fundamentally evil, and that everyone should know it instinctively. People
should know it, says Tobin, before the evil ones commit any evil; even if they
go through life never committing any evil; even if those who accuse them are
themselves irredeemably evil. Get it? If you don't, you need to take a lesson
in Jewish logic.
In any case, now that you are so wise as to know all of
that, Tobin has something else to say to you. Despite the fact that the Jews
have been in charge of America 's
foreign policy since Barack Obama was a toddler, Tobin wants you to know that
the blame for America 's
troubles on the world stage falls on Obama's shoulders. This is what the new
President, Donald Trump, is facing, he asserts. And being the loyal American
that he is, he feels obligated to tell the President what to do next to fix all
those problems.
His first advice to President Donald Trump is that “he
shouldn't shelve efforts to rethink Iran
policy [because] Washington 's problems with Iran shouldn't
be underestimated.” This done, Tobin thanks the Congress for refusing “to
repeal U.S. laws that impose
penalties on entities doing business with Iran .” He goes on to assert that
“this gives Trump the chance to make it even harder on Europeans looking for
opportunities in Tehran ”.
And so, despite the fact that it was an older generation of
Jews that was responsible for getting America mired in a global diplomatic
quagmire where the country made enemies everywhere you look, this young Jew is
now telling Trump how to complete the job and make the few nations in Europe
that still sit with America and talk, how to antagonize them and turn them into
enemies.