Clifford D. May globetrotted over the twenty years of advice he has been giving the American government regarding what he saw as the perfect opportunity to drag America into a forever war between Christianity and Islam.
It
is a war he expected will end, if it did, with the Jews prevailing over the two
exhausted combatants without even joining the fight, and then taking ownership
of the entire planet as promised in the ancient Jewish mythologies.
Clifford
May did the trotting in an article he wrote under the title: “After twenty 9/11
anniversaries, the sleeping giant nods off again,” and had it published on
September 7, 2021 in The Washington Times.
You
only get a sense of the purpose for which Clifford May wrote this article at
the end of it when you encounter this sentence: “We’re back to Sept. 10, 2021,
except that both our enemies and our allies are now watching the sleeping giant
return to his slumbers. Expect serious repercussions to follow”.
These
are words of lamentations by which the author acknowledges defeat,
disappointment and dread of the consequences he now predicts will follow the
earlier predictions that anticipated glorious victories but failed to
materialize.
Reading
the account of the evolving opinions as expressed by the people whom Clifford
May came into contact with through the twenty years of obsession he’s had about
this matter, will tell you why America, that went to kick Arab and Muslim asses,
got its own ass kicked instead.
Here
is what Clifford May says happened on the first anniversary (2002) of the 9/11
attack: Having been a guest on a radio program with Bianca Jagger and Terry
Waite, he recorded that both failed to express sympathy for the suffering that
Americans endured as a result of the attack. Worse, Ms. Jagger accused America
of killing innocent Afghans without paying reparations to their families.
A
year later (2003), John Kerry who was running to be President of the United
States called the attack on the World Trade Center “our generation’s Pearl
Harbor.” This is when Clifford May wondered if America’s enemies had awakened a
sleeping giant and motivated him to engage in a war against the perpetrators
“for the duration,” that might well prove to be forever.
By
the third anniversary (2004), Clifford May was beginning to detect a marked
shift in the mood of the media if not the public, concerning the sharing of
culpabilities in a conflict that was complex and given the name “War on Terror.”
What horrified and chagrined Clifford May was seeing the editors at Reuters
asserting that one man’s terrorist was another man’s freedom fighter.
May
skipped 2005 and went on to describe the event that cheered him in (2006). It
was the announcement that the administration of W. Bush had decided to kill or
capture all terrorists, deny them safe haven and prevent them from gaining
access to weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
In
(2007) Clifford May observed that General David Petraeus was given an
additional 28,000 troops to go after al Qaeda in Iraq in the hope that this
will change the course of the war. Petraeus used the troops to also challenge
the Iranian-backed Shia militias that were gaining power in Iraq.
May
skipped 2008 and went on to describe what he did in (2009). He says he
expressed support for President Obama’s decision to send an additional 21,000
troops to Afghanistan. He also recalls that many in America, both on the right
and the left, were arguing for ending the “forever war” and bringing the troops
home.
Clifford
May goes on to say that in (2010) he challenged President Obama’s contention
that open-ended war does not serve America’s interest. He proposed that if the
President was not going to commit the resources to avoid being defeated by the
enemy, he will have to commit to fighting a long and low intensity war so as to
prevent the enemy from triumphing over America. And that meant commit to stay
and fight in Afghanistan for the long haul.
Clifford
May skipped 2011 and went on to (2012), a year when Ansar al-Sharia killed four
Americans in Benghazi, Libya. He says he lamented the absence of serious
discussions on television and the editorial pages of newspapers about the
belief system of the Muslim enemy, what goals he sought to achieve, and what
strategies he was pursuing.
Clifford
May skipped 6 more years, and went on to describe what he said in (2019). It
was that President Donald Trump was dialoging with the Taliban and had invited
their leaders to Camp David.
In
(2020) Clifford May went on to say that according to a testimony to Congress by
a member of his own FDD outfit, al Qaeda branches had metastasized throughout
the globe but did not attack any Western country. And so, Clifford May posited
that this was due to the fact that the US and other countries took the fight to
them.
But
nowhere during those twenty years of punditry on the subject, do you see
Clifford May or anyone like him for that matter, suggest that something may go
contrary to plan, and that it would be wise to devise a plan B to respond
effectively to the situation.
And
nowhere during those twenty years do you see a suggestion that a new leader may
rise among the Taliban or al Qaeda or any of the other groups, and lead a Che
Guevara kind of movement aimed at ousting the Americans and their allies from
Afghanistan.
But
to his deep disappointment, says Clifford May, President Trump hammered a deal
with the Taliban for reasons that were not divulged to the public; a deal to
get out of Afghanistan that changed everything in the eyes of Clifford May.
Instead
of telling the truth, however, which was that (1) the experts in the field saw
the Taliban prepare for a Tet Offensive style assault, to come in the Spring,
on the American troops, and that (2) the same experts judged that the Afghan
army will join the Taliban rather than fight it — Clifford May lamented that the sleeping giant
has returned to his slumbers, and repercussions will follow.
There
was no lesson to learn during 20 years of war. And there was no lesson to learn
after the defeat.
No wonder America is slumbering into irrelevance.