Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Groping for a new Place under the Sun

Everyone has a place under the sun, and most everyone wants it to be a better place. That is true for individuals, for big and small clans; also true for big and small nations.

Of those that want a better place, some want it badly; others moderately so. What they all have in common, however, is that they constantly work on trying to better their lot, each doing it in their own way. Where the entities differ is in the set of goals each wants to achieve in the short term, as well as the medium and long terms. This makes it so that each entity ends up developing a specific method to get there.

Like everything else in life, a situation such as this creates interests for each entity that match those of others or compete against them. Most of the time, clans or nations find themselves forging complex relationships according to which they cooperate with each other in some areas, while at the same time competing against each other in other areas. At times, this creates such an awkward situation, the entities find themselves quarreling and facing the choice of settling their differences with a compromise or a confrontation.

Perhaps the most difficult situation an entity can face is that of seeing its rank on the totem pole of influence downgraded. The most difficult of all being that of the entity which used to be at the top of the heap, and now being forced to accept that someone else is forging ahead of it. In fact, this reality has been the norm throughout the history of our planet. From the ancient eras to modern times; empires rose to occupy a brilliant place under the sun only to face their own sunset, and take a lower ranking.

This is the situation that superpower America is facing at this time. It still occupies the highest position on the totem pole, but the writing is on the wall, made clearer everyday by those who jump the ship they no longer feel comfortable staying with.

An article that brings into focus America's current situation came under the title: “Is America Losing Its Credibility with the Middle East?” It was written by Amitai Etzioni and published on October 26, 2017 in the National Interest. Three days prior, Herbert London had published a piece in which he discussed the role that the Russian rival was posing. It came under the title: “Russia's ominous return to the middle East,” and the subtitle: “Putin seeks to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Egypt.” It appeared in The Washington Times.

Why has America started to decline only fifty years after its rise to the top? The short answer is that it was invaded by a parasite that took command of its functions, and has directed its resources to promote the interests of a foreign entity. Here is an example of how it happened: Speaking of America's decline, Amitai Etzioni – who is a Jew – says this: “The United States has found no way to stop this loss of influence in Iraq.” Moments later, he explains something about the Kurds, doing it in a way that reveals something he didn't mean to. Here it is: “They are the most reliable pro-Americans (next to Israel) in the region”.

That’s the way Amitai Etzioni expressed his distress that America was not treating the Kurds as well as it should. And so, he set out to give America's elites the parasitic kind of advice that promotes the interests of Israel at the expense of America.

Besides calling on America to side with the Kurds against Iraq (Israel's dream for decades) he says that for America to maintain its credibility in the world, “it should use all means available to it.” But to do what? Well, to pressure Pakistan, for example; also to use India as a means to contain China … and so on.

When the Jews first introduced this kind of ideas to America's elites, they sounded so fresh and “out of the box,” the Americans took to them, but then didn't know how to shed them when the ideas proved worse than ineffective – when they proved destructive to America's interests.

You can tell how destructive they have been when you decipher the message that's buried in Herbert London's article. The author describes the rapprochement between Egypt and Russia as “an astonishing development considering that Egypt and Russia opposed one another in Syria”.

This means that, unlike America – whose Jewish message to others boils down to “you're totally with us or you're against us,” – Russia does not seek to “marry” other nations; it only seeks to work with them.

In fact, Herbert London even quotes the President of Egypt as making clear that “Egypt's foreign policy would not be dictated by others.” But London goes on to make the mistake of suggesting that the Egyptians do not “understand Putin's willful deception,” despite the fact that “Russian ambitions are transparent”.

And so, in apparent repudiation of the saying that goes, “don't try to teach daddy how to make babies,” London proceeds to recommend that “it is incumbent on the U.S. State Department to convey [to the Egyptians] the real motives of the Russians”.

What will they think of next to compound their juvenile sort of self-deception?