How do you know that a zombie is a zombie? You know he is when you see him chop off his arm. You ask why he is doing it, and he gives a long lecture about preemption, saying basically the following:
Preemption
is a good thing because when you get wind that your neighbor is about to do
something, you do it before him. This puts you first, and you win the contest.
So
now, you want to know who is the zombie of American politics. Well, his name is
Robert Joseph, a name that’s prominent in the pantheon of infamy for being the
one to insert the accusation about Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
in the George W. Bush State of the Union address.
Well,
my friend, Robert Joseph is at it again, this time preempting the Iranians with
the accusation of negotiating in bad faith, when it is the Americans who
reneged on the Iran nuclear deal, which they negotiated together with the P5+1
group.
To
immortalize the validity of his zombie credentials, Robert Joseph wrote,
“Iran’s New Leaders Will Not Negotiate in Good Faith,” an article that was
published on October 3, 2021 in National Review Online.
It
is in the first sentence of the article that Robert Joseph has demonstrated how
a zombie, who is certain of his neighbor’s intention, chops off his own arm to be
ahead of the neighbor. Here is that sentence: “A great fallacy of the Biden
approach is the belief that, in any agreement with the US, Tehran would live up
to its commitments”.
Because
Robert Joseph knew that the Iranians have every right to level that accusation
against America, which reneged on an earlier deal, he falsely accused them
before they had the chance to legitimately accuse America, which the Iranians
may not have bothered doing. Still, with that performance, Robert Joseph proved
to be an irredeemable joker, and a zombie that has been in the driver’s seat of
American politics for too long.
And
now, there remains the question: why is this zombie doing what he is doing?
Well, when you comb through his article, you’ll find that Robert Joseph speaks
of American interests. The problem is that he does not define what that is in
any specific way. Instead, he speaks in general terms about the interests of
some Arab neighbors of Iran without showing how these interests relate to
America’s interests. Here are the kind of samples that you’ll find peppered
throughout the article:
“Tehran’s
goals are diametrically opposed to American interests … The underlying
assumptions of the Biden strategy will produce only further failure and further
loss of vital US interests … A policy of retreat and appeasement would only
facilitate the regime’s anti-US agenda”.
It
is only with the last sentence of the article that Robert Joseph has managed to
let it be known what he sees America’s policy toward Iran ought to look like.
Here is that sentence: A policy of disciplined and determined containment is
required to back down the leaders in Tehran and help the people of Iran to gain
their freedom.
So,
there you have it: an admission that a big part of America’s policy toward
Iran, as seen by a long-time architect of American foreign policy, is to help
the people of Iran gain their freedom. It is not spelled out what that is, but
no one will miss seeing it as the call for a revolution that will topple the
regime, and install one that will be friendly toward America, and more
importantly friendly toward Israel.
Whereas
Robert Joseph and zombies like him believe that it is sufficient to counsel the
Joe Biden administration on what needs to be done to set things straight in the
world, another group of zombies have a different set of ideas. To begin with,
they believe that no matter what counsel you give to the Biden administration,
it will be a waste of time and energy because this is a White House, which in
their view, is incapable of doing anything right.
This
group of zombies makes up the editorial board of the publication that goes by
the name New York Post. In fact, these editors just came up with a piece they
wrote under the title: “Joe Biden is proving he’s pretty inept at politics,”
and published it on October 4, 2021 in the New York Post, of course.
Disregarding
the reality that the American public has been demanding their politicians stop
acting like politicians and start acting like real human beings, the editors of
the New York Post who pretend to be the voice of the American public, spent an
entire editorial condemning Joe Biden for not being enough of a politician. But
why is that?
Because
in the view of these zombies, Joe Biden is asking the Republicans to help him
advance his domestic agenda, instead of him volunteering to help the
Republicans advance their foreign policy agenda. It would be one that’s based
on committing more American resources toward the destruction of Iran and the
destruction of other foes of America … more importantly nations known to be
foes of Israel.
None
of the discussion pertaining to that subject is apparent in the Post’s current
editorial because the duelists are busy dueling about money, a fight that never
takes place when the recipient of the money is Israel. What happens then, is
that Israel commands and America gives the money without question. And to the
World, America looks like the self-mutilating zombie who disgusts everyone for
being such a sissy.
If the aim is to restore to America the glory it earned throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the time is now to get those zombies out of the drivers’ seat in America’s domestic and foreign policies.