Clifford D. May and Robert Kagan are two Jews having an argument
about the best way for America to save the world.
This is like Charles Manson and Jack the Ripper arguing about the
best way for the Pope to prevent priests from abusing children. I shall not
insert myself in the May-Kagan argument, but will express my views on some of
the issues they are tackling.
You can see how the May-Kagan debate is unfolding because Clifford
May has reported on it in an article that came under the title: “The advance of
illiberal world disorder,” published on November 6, 2018 in The Washington
Times. Clifford May begins his article by quoting a passage in Robert Kagan's
book. Basically, the passage says this: Until America won World War II, the
world was immersed in endless wars, tyranny and poverty. It goes on to claim
that after 1945, thanks to America, billions of people climbed out of poverty,
and individual rights were respected.
There is also frequent mention of democracy in Clifford May's
article. But he, being founder and current president of the Foundation for
Defense of Democracies – which I consider a burlesque kind of outfit – I shall
refrain from discussing what the Jews call democracy lest I dignify their
definition of that word.
What is most galling in May's article, and apparently in Kagan's
book too, is that the two characters draw a cause-and-effect relationship
between America winning World War II, and billions of people climbing out of
poverty. But the reality is that billions of people were lifted out of poverty
in China because of an experiment in politico-economic governance that started
with the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s when America was considering China a
deadly enemy that had to be contained along with the Soviet Union.
Moreover, the Chinese experiment is still ongoing, still boosting
millions of people into higher brackets of income, and boosting China to the
status of superpower. And all this is happening, not because America wants it,
but because America is no longer able to suppress it.
Instead of seeing this reality for what it is, what seems to happen
to Clifford May and Robert Kagan is that they imagine the Jews to be the
central character in the unfolding human drama, and imagine everyone else to be
a minor character. This causes them to be so confused, they attribute to “billions
of people” what they see happening to the Jews.
But when you adopt the correct perspective, you’ll find that
America pursued a two-pronged economic policy after the Second World War. It
launched both the Marshall Plan and the Cold War to help the nations allied to
it rebuild their shattered economies while trying to impoverish the others.
After a short stint as allies of America's nemesis, Joseph Stalin, the Jews
switched allegiance, and sided with America. From that moment on, Jews that
called themselves historians, thought of world history as being nothing more
than a pale reflection of Jewish history. Thus, what happened to a handful of
Jews, was seen by them as happening to billions of people.
This being the history of the last three quarters of a century,
what about the seven thousand years that preceded that era? Was the world
really “a long tale of war, tyranny and poverty” like says Robert Kagan, to
which Clifford May agrees? Or was it something different? Well, the truth is
that each of the ancient civilizations had a long period of peaceful existence
in which the masses enjoyed a life of plenty, allowing them to engage in
leisure and artistic expression at the highest level.
In fact, from the Chinese empire at the Far Eastern edge of Asia
to the Moorish empire at the Far Western edge of Africa, and passing through
the cluster of Middle Eastern empires in the Levant and North Africa, the
people who lived in those places, were so happy with the lives they lived, they
built a wall around the empire to keep the others out, or they mummified
themselves to continue their joyful life after death. In so doing, each of
these peoples left a legacy for us to see, and marvel at the power of their
imagination and enterprise, having settled down to start the movement we now
call Civilization.
But there again, the Jews proved to be the group of misfits that
could not harmonize their steps with humanity and join the march of
civilization with the rest. They had a hard time everywhere they went, and left
a legacy of misery that prompts the likes of Clifford May and Robert Kagan to
dismiss the labor of love that's evident in the accomplishments of the ancients
… that’s because to May and Kagan, nothing exists that’s not Jewish.
The work produced by millions of people who volunteered years of
their lives to accomplish what has endured the test of time to speak to us,
thousands of years later, about a life that was so full and pleasant, the
people that lived it continue to celebrate it thousands of years after they
died. Well then, the least we can do is honor their accomplishment and join the
celebration.