Sunday, September 8, 2019

The Alpha and the Omega of a failed Doctrine

When an event proves to be of epic dimensions and impossible to remember in all of its details all at once, the natural human tendency is to retain its Alpha and its Omega, which means retain the beginning and the ending of the event while letting the in-between occurrences fade away with time.

This truism is becoming clearer by the day to those who followed the Jewish inspired American war against Islam. Even if the war did not start officially until the year 2003 with the invasion of Iraq, its preamble goes back to shortly after the 1967 Pearl Harbor style Israeli attack on its neighbors. It was this attack that convinced the Americans they can erase the shame of their defeat in Vietnam by joining the Judeo-Israeli campaign to “kick Arab asses” and score a few winning points.

What's happening now, half a century later, is that America is beginning to feel the necessity to dissociate itself from the Judeo-Israeli Middle Eastern campaign, and try to forget what happened during the decades that proved utterly fruitless if not detrimental to the country's security. America knows it needs to do this now to curtail its overstretched posture and prepare to face new and serious challenges emanating from several sources around the globe. Thus, it can be said that the American decision to disengage from its involvement in Afghanistan marks the Omega of its ill-advised decades-long adventure.

But that's not the case with the Jews whose religion is synonymous with the term “perpetual war” as can be determined from reading their Old Testament where page after page, from cover to cover, there is nothing to read about but wars, blood, mayhem, treachery and misery. So, while the Americans are retrenching and redeploying their military and financial assets, the Jewish leaders are developing a two-pronged strategy to exude fake optimism from one side of the mouth, while using the other side of the mouth to rationalize the wish of the now deterred Israeli military to pursue a policy of keeping a low-profile.

That is, Israel has signaled that it will continue to live by the sword as dictated by religion, but will not do anything that might trigger an all-out war with a neighbor, fearing that such move will end the Zionist regime and replace it with a South African style Democracy. In fact, two recently published articles––one on America and one on Israel––offer a wealth of insights on all these matters.

The article on America, marking the Omega of the expansive doctrine, came under the title: “Why America Doesn't Want to Admit That it Failed in Afghanistan,” and the subtitle: “While nobody in a position of power likes to admit it, the United States has done all it can for Afghanistan.” It was written by the American pundit, Daniel R. DePetris and published on September 3, 2019 in the national Interest. Here is what DePetris had to say about America's involvement in a foreign war:

“The United States and the Taliban have reached an agreement in principle. President Donald Trump would be on his way toward extricating the United States from the longest conflict in its history. He would have public opinion on his side. Americans are tired of the war and find the whole thing absurd. Adults and veterans no longer see the war as being worth the effort. This is the end result of an experiment that has cost a trillion dollars and defined by troop deployments that go on and on and on. Stretching out Washington's participation in a never-ending civil war is foolish. One could even call it a dereliction of duty”.

As to the article on Israel, marking the start of a new Alpha cycle, it came under the title: “The Campaign between wars,” and the subtitle: “How Israel Rethought Its Strategy to Counter Iran's Malign Regional Influence.” It was written by two Israeli pundits, Gadi Eisenkot and Gabi Siboni, and published on September 4, 2019 on the website of the Washington Institute. Here is what the two authors had to say about Israel's new propaganda campaign:

“The Israeli military activities were characterized by two interlinked phases. The first was preparation for wars. The second phase concerned the use of force during war. The nature of the threats to Israel's security were changing profoundly. The rise of new challenges and the destruction wrought by the 2006 war spurred the IDF to develop a concept of integrated, low-intensity, preemptive warfare: The Campaign Between Wars (CBW). The CBW constitutes a fundamental change in the pattern of Israeli security operations. Deviating from the binary approach of either preparing for war or openly waging it, the CBW strives for proactive, offensive actions based on clandestine efforts. The CBW's development led to the authoring of a new military doctrine––defend Israel's security interests without escalating to war”.

But given the Jewish pattern of never to give up on the exploitation of those who listened to them previously, the expectation is that the Jewish leaders will use the “unfinished business of Iraq” as excuse to work on a new scheme for dragging America back into the adventures that will take the country down to the level of a second rate power this time. If it happens, the Americans will have no one to blame but themselves.