Kevin D. Williamson wrote a piece to say
that he has a problem he cannot solve despite the scratching of the head he's
been doing. And so, with all the sincerity that I can muster, I promise I'll
try to help him relieve the agonizing itch that's plaguing his skull.
You can read all about his problem by
consulting the column he wrote under the title: “Head-Scratchers,” and the
subtitle: “There are things in the news that I find genuinely difficult to
understand.” The column was published on August 15, 2019 in National Review
Online.
To benefit from the help which I propose
to offer him, Kevin Williamson will have to cooperate in the process of healing
his malady. The first thing he needs to do, is ignore for a moment, the
sensations plaguing the outer layer of his skull. He should concentrate
instead, on energizing the gray matter that's inside the skull. What he needs
to do is engage his brain, and have it perform an exercise known as thinking.
In fact, there are several forms of thinking, one being the art of imagining.
Of the things which are often imagined,
one is called “thought experiment.” My purpose in getting Kevin Williamson to
engage in the art of imagining, is to have him experiment with a theoretical
situation that will help him understand what he says has been difficult for him
to understand. In fact, he was good enough to state his problem as follows:
“We all are apparently expected to clutch
our pearls because the government of Israel has, in accordance with its law,
declined to host Representatives Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D.,
Mich.) that had planned to visit Israel”.
What I want Kevin Williamson to imagine,
is an Arab or a Muslim country having a diplomatic or financial or military
relation with America that is beneficial to both sides. One day, without
warning, the Arab or Muslim country tells a Congressional delegation made of
members in charge of foreign or financial or military affairs –– it cannot come
into the country to see for itself what the country's leaders are doing with
the goodwill and material benefits that America bestows on them.
What do you think will happen? Will Kevin
Williamson and those like him be scratching their heads? Or will they explode
their bellies, hollering with deafening rage the refrain: Cut every ounce of
diplomatic, financial and military relations we have with these Stone Age,
savage beasts?
Now think what would happen if Israel, and
not an Arab or a Muslim country, did something like that to an ordinary,
nondescript Congressional delegation. Will Kevin Williamson be scratching his
head, or will he behave differently? Alternatively, think what would happen if
Israel did it to Lindsey Graham, Liz Cheney, Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz. Will
Kevin Williamson explode his belly, hollering the refrain: Cut every ounce of
diplomatic, financial and military relations we have with these Stone Age,
savage beasts? Or will he be scratching his head?
Once Kevin Williamson has answered those
questions, he should take a good look at himself and all those like him. Are
they patriots or have they sold their souls for a fistful of Benjamins … money
that is theirs to begin with, but was relinquished to those who falsely claim
adherence to a regime of dual citizenship, but remain loyal only to Israel,
holding an American passport for convenience and nothing else?
After going through the thought
experiment, and having digested the information it has yielded, will Kevin
Williamson finally see the light? Will he then determine that neither his
lethargy nor the violent engagement of those who complain about the Jews
replacing them, will liberate America of the Jewish tyranny that was imposed on
him and his people for decades?
After making that determination, will
Kevin Williamson accept the reality that if salvation were to come to America,
it will be brought by hyphenate Americans of the Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar
kind; women of steel endowed with the spirit, the self-respect and the fervent
desire to live a free and dignified life? When this happens, America will, in
fact, have achieved the kind of life, its founding fathers dreamed of but
feared that a generation of Kevin Williamsons and Donald Trumps, will not be
able to keep.
It must be said in closing that none of
this negates the reality that some things are happening in America which can
lead to the scratching of the head. For example, how is it that the president
of the United States has urged the prime minister of Israel to change his mind
and block two congressmen from entering Israel to see for themselves what the
scandal-prone leaders of that sorry place are doing with the billions of
Benjamins they receive each year from America?
Come to think of it, those two clowns seem
intent on realizing the prediction that was enunciated about the end of history
–– but do it in reverse.
That is, instead of the world living
permanently under a triumphant Liberal Democracy, it will have discovered that
Democracy was turned into a weapon of mass deception, used by charlatans who
will stage the periodic bread and circus shows known as election, thus put the
useless in power, and the productive out of power.