The Jew will not talk to you to entertain you. He’ll only talk to sell you something. But be careful because a peculiarity of the Jewish sales pitch, is that he’ll describe what he’s selling by the attributes of something else. To put it crudely, he’ll describe a cow while trying to unload a chicken. And of course, he’ll take the value of the cow and give you a chicken.
This
is what Clifford D. May has been doing for nearly two decades, selling ideas
that promote the various causes of Jews, including Israel, while pretending to
promote the eternal glory of capitalism, and liberal-democratic America. In
fact, he has done it again, writing an article this time that came under the
title: “President Biden chose the worst options in Afghanistan,” published on
August 17, 2021 in The Washington Times.
Here
is how Clifford May starts his discussion:
“Many politicians and diplomats share
blame for this outcome, as do those deep thinkers who fancy themselves
proponents of responsible statecraft, based on the dangerous fiction that ‘forever
wars’ end once Americans stop fighting them”.
What’s
implied here is that there exist two opposite views. There is the view that
America should only get into a war for which it has worked an exit strategy.
And there is the view that says it is acceptable, even recommended, that America
gets into “forever wars,” that have no exit strategy.
Those
who want an exit strategy justify their point of view by arguing that America’s
capacity to fight wars has its limit. To go beyond the time when the original
objective has been achieved, begins the process of ruining the nation. As to
those who want no exit strategy, they justify their point of view by arguing
that even if America stops fighting after achieving its original goal, the war
will not end. Therefore, it is better for America to continue fighting as long
as the enemy remains standing, whatever the cost in lives, limbs and treasure.
But we must ask the question: Are the two
sides talking about the same thing? Or is Clifford May talking cow while trying
to sell a chicken? We find clues that help us find the answers to those
questions by going over May’s article, and parsing the relevant passages. It so
happens that Clifford May quoted Professor Bernard Lewis on two occasions that
reveal much about May’s mindset. Here they are:
First occasion: “Sept. 11, 2001, [Lewis]
wrote, was the culmination of a series of attacks throughout the 1980s and
1990s that had brought virtually no response. Jihadis saw this, not as
restraint on our part, but fear and weakness to be exploited. Such enemies of
America, he added, are encouraged by experts, who keep repeating the mantra:
There’s no military solution. The Taliban knew that didn’t apply to them”.
Second occasion: “The Roman Empire and the
medieval Islamic Empire [Lewis] observed, were not conquered by more civilized
peoples. They were conquered by [backward hordes] of more vigorous peoples. But
in both cases, what made the conquest – with the Barbarians in Rome and the
Mongols in Iraq – possible was things were going badly wrong within the society
so that it was no longer able to offer effective resistance”.
The
first quote reveals that Professor Lewis would have wanted to see America
respond to the provocations of the jihadis as they occurred during the decades
of the 1980s and 1990s. It was obviously a mistake for America to drag its feet
at the time because it encouraged the jihadis to then engineer the 9/11 attack.
This is when America responded with a military operation, which was the right
thing to do. But after achieving its goals, America should have exited the war
without dragging its feet again. But dragging its feet, is exactly what America
did that was wrong.
The
second quote reveals that Professor Lewis was talking about different actors in
a different era, facing an entirely different situation. The discussion related
to a pair of mighty empires that were beaten into submission not by somebody
more capable than they, but somebody that was persistently vigorous, and able
to maintain the semblance of a forever war throughout the fight and all the way
to victory.
And
so, when Clifford May spoke about a war with no exit strategy, he thought of
America adopting the strategy of the backward hordes that defeated the Roman
and Islamic Empires by carrying on a never-ending war till the ultimate victory.
He knew this was a chicken, but he described a cow trying to sell it.
What
Clifford May described in fact, is a military solution such as was achieved
during the Second World War when the enemies surrendered, and accepted the
conditions imposed on them. What May has not told his readers, however, is that
such victory is impossible to achieve because the Taliban are not organized
like a regular army, and that Afghanistan does not have high-value assets that
the Taliban would rather surrender and preserve than see them bombed into
smithereens.
Therefore,
a forever war would have worked to the advantage of the Taliban. That’s because
they would have all the time they need to be who they are, and love it. On the
other hand, America would have hemorrhaged and would have shrunk into being a
shadow of its old self, and hated it.
Getting
out of Afghanistan after twenty years of bad advice from the likes of Clifford
May, is one of the best things that America did for itself, for the Afghan
people and for the world.
May that same wisdom make it a habit to visit an America that has many more places in the world from which it must withdraw its forces.