You read Clifford D. May’s articles week after week, and you watch the interviews that he gives year after year in which he describes the acts of war as being the natural state of humanity, and you cannot help but visualize him as a warmonger that’s adorned with the elongated ears of Satan.
And then one day, Clifford May bucks the trend of his own
habits, and out of the blue, comes up with a sop narrative about the evil of
wars, opting now to glorify humanity’s longing for peace. And you cannot help
but visualize him as a peacemaker that’s adorned with the wings of Archangel
Michael.
Is this guy for real? Can someone be simultaneously
wearing the devil’s ears and the angel’s wings? Clifford May wants you to
believe it can be done. And so he wrote an article in which he does not exactly
make that point in a direct way, but does his utmost to convince you that
despite what he might have said and written in previous years, he can now echo
the voice of angels.
And so, you get curious about what Clifford May is up to
now, and you read his latest article to find out what he’s trying to accomplish.
The article came under the title: “Putin’s troops ravage Ukraine while his
envoy steers Team Biden’s talks with Iran,” published on March 8, 2022 in The
Washington Times.
Clifford May — the
decades-long warmonger that has been ridiculing the weak-kneed,
left wing liberals of the woke — starts his article in a manner that
surprises you because he attacks the Russian President Vladimir Putin. He does
so not for seeing Putin as a pacificist, but because he
says that Putin: “has assassinated dissidents, slaughtered Chechens, detached
two provinces from neighboring Georgia and seized Crimea from Ukraine while
fueling conflict in the east of that country”.
As if this were not enough insults to heap on one man,
Clifford May proceeded to shower Putin with more insults that sounded this time
more like criminal accusations. Here is what he said: “On Feb. 24,
Mr. Putin again invaded Ukraine. He has been using
artillery and dumb bombs to murder men, women and children, and reduce cities
to rubble. His apparent goal is to subjugate Ukraine, to strip it of its
independence, sovereignty and freedom”.
And that’s when you wonder what in the world has happened
that caused this guy, Clifford May, to make what appears to be a complete
reversal. You go through his article with a fine comb and a sharp mind, hoping
to pick signals that will tell you what may be happening.
Almost immediately, you begin to receive hints that
disabuse you of the idea that Clifford May has turned pacifist. It is that the
evidence clearly shows that Clifford May is attacking Putin, not because the
latter was aggressive, but because his aggression was not virulent enough to provoke
the American response that would have led to a worldwide conflagration — the stuff that a warmonger’s dream is made of.
Now that you know what is motivating Clifford May, you
probe his article in depth to find out what you can about his way of thinking. What
draws your attention the most, is his use of the word “capitulation.” In fact,
he used the word once to accuse the President of he United States of
surrendering to the Taliban in Afghanistan, and of leaving a great deal of American
weapons to them. And he used the word a second time to accuse the President of
the United States of eagerness to surrender to Iran in the talks which are
currently underway in Vienna.
And if you think these are serious accusations to level
at someone, wait till you see what else Clifford May is accusing the President of
the United States of. The following is a condensed version of the way that
Clifford May chose to make that point:
“Mr. Biden’s diplomats work hand-in-glove with Mikhail Ulyanov, Mr.
Putin’s envoy. Mr. Ulyanov is the dominant player. He wants to please
Mr. Putin by helping Iran’s rulers further humble and diminish
the United States. Mr. Putin calculates that any nuclear-tipped ICBMs
produced by Iran’s rulers will be pointed at America and used to keep
America at bay while their proxies conquer and/or destroy more of the Middle
East than they already have".
That is, Clifford May is accusing the President of the United States of
treason. Was that word, treason? What kind of treason would it be? It is the
kind that’s known as treachery. Here is a montage of the excerpts that end the
article, showing how Clifford May has labored to clarify his final point:
“Mr. Biden’s deal will provide Iran’s rulers with billions of
dollars they can spend on arms and threaten their American-allied neighbor. In
the current era, logic is not a major component in the patterns of behavior
driving American foreign policy. Was it logical to invite Putin to partner
with the US in negotiations with Iran’s rulers while excluding the
American ally most threatened by Iran’s rulers? The Biden administration has
been establishing a shameful and damaging pattern of behavior: It is proving to
be harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend”.