Monday, July 16, 2018

Paradigm Shift of the most Yiddish kind

Did you hear the latest? It happened while you were asleep. The world has changed.

No, that wasn't the Shah of Iran crowning himself emperor because he could not find someone worthy enough to crown him. This time, it was his imperial holiness Matthew Continetti sending a memo to his prime minister Donald Trump of the Federated Empire of America, instructing him as follows: I have no objection to you meeting with Putin but make no grand bargain. Give me instead the four No's: no sanctions relief; no recognition of Crimea; no withdrawal from Syria, and no trusting Putin.

So you ask: Where is the paradigm shift? And the answer is that control of the universe has shifted – perhaps temporarily or perhaps for good – from Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room at CNN to Matthew Continetti's Washington Free Beacon in the District of Columbia. And you can read all about the said infamous memo in the article that came under the title: “No 'Grand Bargain' with Putin” and the subtitle: “The risks to American deterrence aren't worth it.” That piece of work was written by Matthew Continetti, of course, and reprinted from the Washington Free Beacon in National Review Online on July 14, 2018.

The goal of the self-crowned master of the universe is to ascertain that America will remain in Syria to stand like a sentinel protecting Israel's murder of Palestinians and Israel's theft of Palestinian properties. Like the rest of the mob of Jewish pundits, Continetti came up with all kinds of fake reasons as to why America must spend trillion more dollars to see more lives of its own perish in far away lands, sent there by their government to kill innocent people that did nothing to harm America. Look at the way that little Matthew formulated these thoughts:

“American withdrawal from Syria would be doubly self-defeating. Our mission there prevents Assad from reestablishing 'full control,' deters Turkey and provides us intelligence. Our departure would remove the heavy boot on ISIS's neck. The lesson in the early 21st century is that terrorism festers in places where no military has established 'full control.' It would be the height of folly to create such a place in Syria on purpose [the way we did in Iraq and Libya]”.

It will take a few more years of growing up before Matthew Continetti will have learned that the foreign control of a society––originally known as colonialism; later renamed neocolonialism––plants the seeds of rebellion, awakens the forces of resistance, creates wars of liberation and the inevitable invitation to acts of terror. Only then will he realize that the Pax Judaica disguised as Pax Americana––his elders planted in his head––will fail to accomplish what he believes “our mission there” will do. What will happen instead is a rekindling of the conditions that started in the nineteenth century and culminated in the twentieth century with blaming the Jews for starting all wars, and the attempt to permanently do away with them to permanently do away with wars.

Matthew Continetti and all the young who are schooled in the Ronald Reagan slogan, “peace through strength” and the W. Bush doctrine of America remaining militarily superior to all the others combined – end up making fools of themselves when they are not careful how they treat the subject. In fact, they cannot believe in those concepts without believing in the idea that to get there, America must be engaging in an arms race. And when you have an arms race, you do not adhere to an arms control treaty whether or not there is one.

To be ignorant of these realities and mock someone for not adhering to arms control, will make the readers laugh alright, but not at the one being mocked; they’ll laugh at the one doing the mocking. Here is an example from the Continetti article: “The Russians look at arms control the way you and I look at dieting and nutrition: as pledges that work to one's advantage in the short term but are ineluctably broken.” You may laugh at little Matthew.

Not only has the schooling of the new generation of right-wing fanatics gone out of control with regard to the subjects that relate to war and peace, it has gone out of control with regard to the subjects that relate to the treatment of both friends and foes.

At the very moment that America's “friends” are scratching their heads wondering if America views them as friends or foes, Continetti says this: “Russia has no intent to act on its promises of diplomatic comity. It's almost as if it can't help being the bully in regions it considers important.” Tell that to Angela Merkel of Germany and Theresa May of the United Kingdom.

It is that the current president of the United States of America seemed at times to imitate the buffoonery of Idi Amin. He now seems to imitate Ferdinand Marcos who thought that women are never good anywhere except in the bedroom. Is this the kind of comity the new generation of American right-wingers is advocating?