Those that formed an image in their mind of the United States as being a hardy flying bald eagle
might have to amend their vision to that of a United States being a pitiful
scavenging vulture living on carcasses that succumb to exhaustion or brought
down by a predator hardier than the eagle.
Indeed, proponents of the American eagle may decide to
change their vision after reading Jed Babbin's article: “The destabilization of
Saudi Arabia,” published on November 12, 2017 in The Washington Times. Babbin,
who used to be deputy undersecretary of defense in the Bush (41)
administration, is someone that can assess a situation accurately when he wants
to, and make a recommendation that sounds realistic when he is serious about
it. In fact, that's what he came close to doing in his latest article.
After discussing the situation currently prevailing in Saudi
Arabia, and more generally in the Middle East, Jed Babbin described what
America could do to rebuild its influence in that part of the world. He did so
near the end of his article. What follows is a montage of two pertinent
passages that show how small and pitiful America's options have become in the
quest to regain the position it used to have almost as a birthright:
“Though we can't end the Iranian-Saudi wars they do present
Mr. Trump with an opportunity to begin rebuilding our influence in the Middle
East … The president has to walk a fine line. Saudi Arabia is still a principal
financial sponsor of a great many Sunni groups. A call from him to Crown Prince
bin Salman demanding that he end [such] support as the price for American
support could directly benefit our national security”.
That's what America has been reduced to. Opportunists, who
are toothless under normal circumstances, wait for the right opportunity when
someone has been bloodied by a fight or an accident to join the fray and grab
what they can and run or fly away. Having admitted that America has been
rendered powerless when operating under normal circumstances, Babbin is now
telling President Trump that the opportunity is here for him to grab what he
can, and do something to improve the security situation of America.
What a tumble this is for a superpower that only two
generations ago commanded the two most prominent colonial powers of the day,
France and Britain, to end their military aggression against Egypt in 1956, and
go home! Contrast this situation with what America has become in the short span
of time since then, and you can only be depressed. That's because what America
reflects now is not the image of a majestic eagle; it is the image of a pitiful
scavenging vulture.
How did this happen to America? To help us answer that
question, we begin with the Franco-British aggression, and recall that the two
colonial powers had taken Israel with them to see how Egypt can be attacked, a
lesson that Israel put into practice eleven years later in 1967, and regretted
doing it six years after that in 1973. But something happened during those six
years that sealed America's fateful tumble from being the shiny city on the
hill to being the terrible boy everyone wants out of their neighborhood.
It is that the Jews––having four thousand years of
experience in how to exploit feeble minds, and live off them––relied on the
child-like mentality of America's politicians, and made them believe in
extravagant fantasies. The Jews told the Americans that the 1967 Pearl Harbor
style Israeli attack on Egypt was not a cowardly act committed by savages, but
the manifestation of God's work. It was God's first act in His grand scheme to
engage the Jews – who are His favorite children, they assured the Americans –
in fixing the ills of the human race.
With repeated pitches of this kind, the Jews convinced the
Americans that they too can become a part of the divine scheme. Their strongest
selling point was that Jerusalem may be in occupied Palestine, but that's only
Little Jerusalem, a relic of the past. They explained that God has been working
for two thousand years on erecting a New Jerusalem to be a shiny city on the
hill. When done, God will have created America to be that shiny city on
the hill, the hope of mankind.