Thursday, April 30, 2020

When the Naked calls the Haggard indecent

An English saying goes something like this: “It's a matter of the pot calling the kettle black.” It is used to indicate that someone is accusing another of being what he is himself.

But what can you say about someone that smells like the sewer accusing one that smells like roses of smelling like gutter? Well, there are so many ways you can put it, I let you use your imagination.

Whatever you come up with can be said in a single sentence, or can be said in an article that's almost a thousand words long. In fact, Clifford D. May chose the second option and wrote: “China, Iran and North Korea stay focused on hostile agendas during pandemic,” an article of almost a thousand words that was published on April 28, 2020 in The Washington Times. What May has done, is falsely accuse countries that lead perfectly normal lives of the sins, criminal and otherwise, which are committed by Israel and America as a matter of course.

Clifford May says he received a letter from an ambassador that happens to be from of a “free and friendly country,” saying that the world has been upended by COVID-19; and that's no exaggeration. Clifford May says he did not respond to the ambassador's letter but wrote what could have been a response, and used it as an article he published for us readers to appreciate what has been going through his mind.

He says that the countries that were bad before the outbreak of the pandemic have remained just as bad. He went beyond these words and said that some countries have become even worse after the outbreak by taking advantage of the fact that the good countries were distracted by the health and economic crises plaguing them and the rest of the world.

May cited China which, he says, enjoyed the fact that mass demonstrations did not occur in Hong Kong because the would-be demonstrators were afraid of catching the virus from each other. In the screwy and distorted view of Clifford May, this proves that China is a bad actor.

Next, says Clifford May, there is Iran. Do you know what Iran did, screamed Clifford May? It asked the IMF for a loan to help it eradicate the pandemic and its aftermath. If that's not enough, the Iranians continued to improve on their understanding of science, and they continued to upgrade their mastery of technology both in the nuclear and aerospace fields. Who do they think they are? America or Russia or China or Europe or India or North Korea, all of whom have nuclear and aerospace programs? These Iranians must not try to be what they are not supposed to be … in the screwy and distorted view of Clifford May.

Do you know what's wrong with that situation, lamented Clifford May? What's wrong is that the Iranians could one day become so smart, they'll do something similar to what America did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Even if May did not say it, implicit in what he wrote is the warning that America is not doing enough of what the Jews of America and the Israelis are advocating. It is that the Arabs and the Muslims must not be allowed to advance because if they do, they'll want to vanquish Israel. And if America will stand in the way of this happening, they'll vanquish America too. For this reason, America must bomb the Arabs and the Muslims for daring to advance economically, scientifically and technologically.

As to North Korea, it claims to be one of the twenty or so countries that have not been infested by the virus, which is a credible claim given that the whole country has been on lockdown for decades. But while this is forgivable what's not, says Clifford May, is that North Korea has continued to test its missiles. And get this now, my friend, May complains that North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un had the temerity to be under the weather for at least two weeks now. Who does he think he is, an ordinary mortal like the rest of us?

And then, there is Russia. It did what a rival military superpower does, and had been doing during the Cold War years when both the Soviet Union and America were testing, warning and scaring each other. This time, said Clifford May, America sent its spy planes too close to Russia, and the Russians intercepted and buzzed those planes. How dare they? As well, America has been conducting mysterious experiments in space, and the Russians responded by testing their ability to blow up whatever that is if it turns out to be dangerous to Russia or the world. How dare they do this? Have they appointed themselves policeman of the world?

Aside from those state actors, says Clifford May, there are the non-state actors who can be just as evil. No, he did not mean the terrorist entity posing as a nation and calling itself Israel, he meant the terrorists of Mozambique and Afghanistan who were as busy as ever terrorizing their neighbors even without receiving weapons or money from America the way that Israel does. What has the world come to?