The most truthful of all the sciences is mathematics. That's
because to construct a theorem, you begin with one or more postulates that are
simple and demonstrably true. You go from there to build evermore complex
mathematical theorems that do not violate any of the postulates with which you
began.
This method can be duplicated when doing the hard sciences,
even the humanities. We must however, be conscious that it is not always easy
to find irrefutable postulates with which to begin a theorem outside the
mathematics. But this doesn't mean we cannot rely on the method to arrive at
close-to-perfect conclusions; it means we must be humble not to be absolutely
certain we have the ultimate truth in science or the humanities.
How can we use that method to determine responsibility for
the suffering caused by an ongoing war? We begin with the postulate that a war
is prolonged, and the suffering is increased when the force level of the two
sides locked in a dispute are matched. It also means that if the force level of
one side is so high that it can overwhelm and annihilate the other side, the
war will end quickly and the suffering eliminated.
With this in mind, we look at the example of an analysis
done by Jonathan S. Tobin about the Syrian civil war. It is an article that
came under the title: “Don't Expect Justice for the Syrian War Criminals,”
published on February 23, 2018 in National Review Online. In the article, Tobin
apportions responsibility for the war and for the ensuing suffering, not based
on a self-evident postulate or one that can be verified, but on the postulate
which says: Ultimate good is what serves the interests of Israel ;
ultimate evil is what does not.
To that end, Tobin distributes most of the responsibility on
Syria 's Bashar Assad and
Hezbollah as well as “the rulers of Iran
and the Putin regime in Moscow .”
But that's not all because in his view, some responsibility falls on the
shoulder of those who could have intervened years ago to stop the war but
neglected to do so. To make that point, Tobin said the following:
“The opening for Russia and for Assad to butcher
civilians was the work of Obama. It was he who warned Assad that his use of
chemical weapons would be a red line, but then backed down. This does not get
Trump off the hook. The fact that Syria
has become the focal point for an Iranian effort to create another frontline
threat to Israel
is now Trump's problem to solve”.
The implied postulate here is that if Obama had bombed Syria when it
was accused of using chemical weapons, the war would have ended and the
suffering stopped there and then. But Trump did send five-dozen Tomahawk
missiles into Syria ,
and the war has continued to rage more intensely than before. If anything, this
shows that the postulate which says you can end the war by escalating the fight
without annihilating the other combatant is a mistaken postulate.
To get a feel for how enormous Jonathan Tobin's error in
logic has been, note the chronology of what happened here: (1) Obama warned
Assad not to use chemicals; (2) Assad used chemicals; (3) Obama backed down;
(4) the war continued at the same level; (5) Trump bombed Syria; (6) the war
intensified; (7) Tobin says Obama should have bombed Syria earlier to end the
war. Conclusion: Jews are severely handicapped when it comes to grasping
temporal relations and the understanding of history. And yet, they want you to
believe they are the greatest historians that history has ever produced. Go
figure.
And when someone is handicapped to that extent, he makes the
kind of mistakes you see in the following passage: “While the world obsesses
over other conflicts –– in particular the one going on between Israel and the
Palestinians, which hasn't produced a fraction of the suffering that has taken
place in Syria –– the slaughter in Syria continues without the international
community paying attention”.
If Tobin had a sense of history, he would have known that
life unfolded peacefully in most colonies because the balance of power was overwhelmingly
tilted in favor of the colonial powers that had the guns. Their settlers
subdued and/or annihilated their victims who had nothing with which to defend
themselves but bare hands, stones, slingshots and the occasional knife to scare
heavily armed foreign savages.
Whereas the colonies of yesteryear were eventually liberated
by the oppressed when help came to them from the outside, Palestinians
(excluding Gaza’s) have not been able to adequately fight the foreign savages
in their midst because the Jews saw to it that America devoted its honor as
well as its financial and political capital to make sure that the Palestinians
of the West Bank will never get off from under the American supplied boots of
the Jewish animals crushing them.
And then you see Jonathan Tobin summon the temerity to
lament as follows:
“Those who let Iran
and Russia win the war for
Assad are in no position to complain when those same powers stonewall a
tribunal that will be charged with applying international law to what happened
in Syria .
We also know that as long as the U.S.
and the West continue to act as if what happens in Syria doesn't matter, the murderers
will never be brought to justice”.