Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Recurring self-serving Flattery of the Fleeceable

Anyone that had to deal with difficult young men knows they are not as tough as they want you to believe they are. In fact, there are those among them who wish to be tough and will do anything to prove they are, and there are those who incite them to do what's forbidden to prove they are tough.

The most successful of the inciters go about their business by flattering those they wish to dominate. They tell them how much they admire them for being able to do certain things, and then tell them what those things are. They suggest there are things waiting for them to do, and tell them how to go about doing them. The fleeceable do what the inciting flatterers tell them to do and get into trouble. The flatterers reap the benefit of what happened or get a kick out of it, and congratulate themselves for what they have accomplished.

This kind of scenario plays out not only among adolescent men in their late teens and early twenties (increasingly among adolescent women as well); it plays among adolescent adults in all walks of life. That includes the corridors of power at the highest level of political and diplomatic governance in both developing and developed countries.

In fact, this has been the history of the Jews in America during the past half century. They incited the captains and lieutenants of America's ship of state, telling them they can do the things no one else can. When the Americans became aware of the resentment everyone in the world was developing for them, the Jews told them not to worry because what they were seeing was proof they are big and strong and envied by everyone. The Jews assured the Americans that the world resents them not because of what they do, but because who they are: the perfect free people whose freedom everybody hates.

In time, the approach used by the Jewish flatterers began to wear out, and the brass at the pinnacle of America's ship of state began to ignore it. The Jews lowered their profile and waited for a different crew to come aboard and take command of America's ship of state. When this happened, the Jews came out the woodwork and started plying their old tricks again, but cautiously this time.

At this stage, they are only testing the waters to see how far they can push their luck. You'll see an example of this in the article that came under the title: “Trump and Pompeo's plan for Iran” and the subtitle: “It's risky, but it has a chance of succeeding.” It was written by Marc Dubowitz and Richard Goldberg, and published on May 21, 2018 in New York Daily News.

Unlike past habits when – from the first sentence to the last in the article – Jewish writers would tell the White House what to do, Dubowitz and Goldberg restrained themselves on this occasion. They mentioned the speech that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had given a few days earlier and simply analyzed it by highlighting its main points. They let the Secretary express the thinking of the administration, quoting him as saying that the green light was given for the application of the “strongest sanctions in history [against Iran] by the time we are done”.

But the two authors are not certain it will be smooth sailing from this point forward. Here is how they expressed that concern: “European leaders are feeling violated. They see Washington poised to use extraterritorial sanctions to threaten their economic sovereignty. They are invoking blocking laws making it illegal for their companies to comply with U.S. sanctions”.

After telling what makes them optimistic that the Pompeo initiative will work, and what makes them pessimistic it will not, they concluded that he “may yet succeed” because he called for renewed diplomacy with the Europeans as well as Gulf and Asian allies. But here too, Dubowitz and Goldberg cautioned that “the secretary of state will be challenged in uniting countries that are eager to trade with Iran, and already smarting from North Korea sanctions enforcement”.

Having painted a situation that is a cliffhanger, the two Jewish writers placed themselves in a position to start playing the old role of telling the White House what to do. And of course, they will begin by flattering those who will listen to them. Here is how they prepared for this moment: “The administration has an ambitious plan with a clear objective”.

Judging them by their past performance, the next thing the Jews will do is define “clear objective.” When you look closely at their definition, you'll find it to be a set of activities serving not America or the world but Israel, always Israel and no one but Israel.

Here we go again; we're back to square one.