When the enmities among the European hardcore colonial powers and
the wannabe colonial powers, rose to a high level, they resulted in the First
World War. When the enmities among the same actors intensified due to the
mishandling of the aftermath of the first war, they resulted in the Second
World War.
Both wars were in reality only European wars, but were given the
name World War because America participated in them. Actually, it was a reluctant
America that was dragged into these wars, having no real interest in distant
disputes. Initially, America was kept away by the Atlantic Ocean and a
self-sufficiency in the resources that the Europeans lacked and were fighting
each other for the right to steal from their African and Asian owners. But
small incidents that happened by accident and that damaged American property,
in addition to pleas by the Europeans, convinced the Americans they should get
involved in their wars.
By the middle of the twentieth century––at the end of the Second
World War––Europe was so devastated and America had remained so intact, it was
natural for America to assume the role of world policeman. But seeing America
perform so well militarily, yet so poorly diplomatically, the colonial powers
that were friendly to America, worked out some grand ideas for their newly
discovered friend. They began with this: Policeman? What policeman? They didn't
want a policeman for the world; they wanted a gladiator to do the dirty work for
them. And so, the Brits got America to start the Cold War against its former
ally, the Soviet Union. And France got America to take charge of the Vietnam
quagmire in which it was embroiled.
A decade or two later, the Jews that benefited the most from America
defeating the Nazi war machine, turned out to have a colonial appetite that
made the Brits and the French look like anorectic colonial operators. In fact,
the Jews wanted the American gladiator to bomb and destroy the Arab and Muslim
worlds for them to walk into the resulting desolation and take the spoils. The
Jews also wanted such performance to be a prelude to conquering the world in
accordance with the designs of a biblical promise they had imagined long ago,
and a Pax Americana that will come under their control, which they hoped will
be the case.
Unfortunately for the Jews, none of those plans worked well for an
America that found itself applying the Midas Touch in reverse to everything it
touched. The problem was that the hand America used to do the touching, was
getting its signals, not from Washington but from Tel Aviv. And like the
Sorcerer's Apprentice that kept messing things up the more he tried to fix
them, the Jews sent America deeper into the cesspool of defeat, the more they
tried to extricate it from the worthless adventures to which they kept sending
it.
But following those defeats, did the Jews stop to give America
time to catch its breath and decide for itself what to do next? Not on your
life. These people never stop pushing ahead even when they find themselves
racing on the wrong pathway. And so, true to themselves, you'll find them do
what Dennis Ross has just done. He wrote an article under the title: “The US:
Between Being the World's Policemen and Trusting Regional Partners,” published
on October 28, 2019 on the website of the Washington Institute.
Reading the article, you get the sense that Dennis Ross wrote his
piece for two audiences at the same time. They would be the leaders of America
and those of the Arab World. You catch him remind the Americans that they still
have what he calls the hard power in the region, as demonstrated by the
operation they mounted to find and kill Al-Baghdadi, head of ISIS. But Ross
also acknowledged that the American people are tired of seeing their country
involved in a never-ending war in the Middle East; an adventure that is costing
the country lives and treasure beyond what is tolerable and so, they want out
of that region.
You also catch Dennis Ross in the act of trying to give the Arab
leaders a lesson about which they would want to tell him: “take that lesson and
shove it”. To understand this part, it is important to be abreast of what's
unfolding economically in some parts of the Arab world. Like it happens
everywhere else on the globe, when an economy transitions from one state to
another, dislocations occur that benefit some people and hurt other people.
This is happening now in countries like Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria and Sudan ––
nothing unusual there.
The leaders in these countries––like their counterparts in China,
South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Egypt, Tunisia and Libya before them––are
trying to cope the best they can with the situation. The last thing they need
at this time, is someone like Dennis Ross, who wouldn't know an economy from a
hole in his anatomy, telling them that their problem has to do with them being
Arabs or Muslims. Look how he ended his lecture:
“The lesson for all Arab governments is to produce better
governance and continuing modernization, and reforms that can be seen and felt
by their publics”.