Monday, October 2, 2017

The weird Stage of hawkish nuclear Arguments

After exhausting all the arguments they could think of––from the superficial to the strange––in the effort to incite America to bomb Iran, the Jews and their hawkish echo-repeaters have now moved to the weird stage of their push to achieve their blood-soaked horrific goal.

Two of them, Eric Edelman and Robert Joseph, wrote an article to advance a point of view that is so weird, you'll wonder whose side they are on. The article came under the title: “Cheney Was Right” and the subtitle: “The sorry history of our North Korea policy,” published on October 1, 2017 in the Weekly Standard.

Look at the following quote; a sentence that came in the first paragraph of the Edelman and Joseph article: “One of the few figures who raised alarms about U.S. policy towards North Korea was Dick Cheney, and he has proven prescient.” Well, that's innocuous enough, but it is also facile because one is either a dove or a hawk. Whichever side of the fence you're on, there is a fifty percent chance that you'll prove prescient, and Cheney happened to be on the right side this time.

But being proven prescient where the odds are 50/50 in a culture that is drowning in Jewish haggling is not a badge one can wear with honor unless one can prove to have done more than talk. So you comb through the article to see what Cheney may have accomplished, and find a few things that astonish you. You find that when Cheney was Secretary of Defense in the George H. Bush (Bush 41) administration; he worked out a program to “withdraw all sea- and land-based nuclear weapons, including those deployed in South Korea.” So you ask the obvious question: Was he prescient then? Or did prescience come to him later?

The Clinton administration that followed Bush signed an Agreed Framework with North Korea, calling on the latter to freeze and eventually eliminate its nuclear facilities. At the time, Cheney was going around the country giving speeches, and in the typical right-wing tradition of those who run to be president, the speeches were filled with scary talk about enemies that live to do nothing but plot to harm America. And so, in the year 1994 (23 years ago) Cheney described North Korea as being: “the most perilous immediate threat”.

With Dick Cheney on the ticket as vice-president, the George W. Bush (Bush 43) team was elected to replace the Clinton administration. So you ask: What did Cheney do with the new powers he acquired? Edleman and Joseph only say that Cheney persuaded the President to take a tough line on the subject, calling the Agreed Framework a mistake. Still, the Bush-Cheney administration continued to honor the provisions of that mistake.

Meanwhile, the National Security Council developed a “strategy of 'tailored containment' that sought to pressure North Korea with a variety of tools under the Proliferation Security Initiative,” say Edelman and Joseph. The result was that North Korea agreed to adopt the objective of “abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs,” the two writers go on to explain. As to how well the latest Bush-Cheney plan worked out; the answer is contained in the worn out saying: the rest is history.

Eric Edelman and Robert Joseph conclude their discussion by drawing a lesson from the history they discussed. They also whispered a friendly word in the ear of the Trump administration. This is what they said: “As Trump considers the Iran nuclear agreement, he would do well to ponder the North Korean experience and remember whose views were vindicated and whose weren't”.

The weirdness of this conclusion stems from the fact that the history of this episode has been nothing better than a dismal failure. The whole thing was planned and supervised by Dick Cheney who remained knee-deep in it for nearly a dozen years. Instead of saying so, the authors lauded Cheney, having asserted several times that he was right all along. But what was he right about? It must be said he was not right about something he achieved. He was right, say the two authors, because he haggled his way into a dozen years of absolute nothingness.

It is becoming apparent that this happened because the essential thing in the Judeo-Yiddish culture is not that you achieve something, but that you haggle long and hard just to gaggle along with the rest of the tribe. You do that to enjoy the moment even if what you hear from others and what you say to them amount to nothing better than pure nonsense.

This is the message that Edelman and Joseph are sending to the Trump administration. It is something about which they feel so proud; they want to see the performance repeated with the Iran Nuclear Deal.