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Monday, August 11, 2014

PRESIDENT OBAMA NEEDS TO SHOW STRENGTH AND NOT WEAKNESS.

In an interview with the New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman, the president said that Netanyahu was “too strong” and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas [Abu Mazen] was “too weak.”

According to Obama, in order for Netanyhau to come to the negotiating table and make concessions, the prime minister needs to feel more pressure from his cabinet and Israelis.

The president pointed to the fact that Netanyahu’s “poll numbers are a lot higher than mine,” which “were greatly boosted by the war in Gaza.”



WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA, HE HAS IMPLIED AN HIGHLY CYNICAL VIEW, THAT NETANYAHU WENT INTO GAZA PURELY FOR POLITICAL REASONS OF POPULARITY.  THE EQUALLY IMPLIED INVERSE TO THAT VIEW IS THAT OBAMA WANTS US TO INFER THAT HE COULD EASILY BOOST HIS OWN RATINGS BY GOING TO WAR, EVEN WRONGLY SO... AS IF THERE WERE ANY EQUIVALENCE OF A THREAT SCALE THAT PARALLELS AMERICA'S EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO ISRAEL'S IMMEDIATE EXISTENTIAL THREAT.

PERHAPS THE REAL LESSON TO BE LEARNED FROM ISRAELI P.M. NETANYAHU IS THAT IN THE CONTEXTS OF SYRIA, IRAQ, IRAN PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, AND OF OTHER JIHADIST HOT SPOTS, SUCH AS THOSE IN AFRICA, PRESIDENT OBAMA NEEDS TO SHOW STRENGTH AND NOT WEAKNESS... THIS BECAUSE OF THE NEED TO SHOW STRENGTH AND NOT FOR THE SAKE OF POLITICAL POPULARITY (WHICH IN THE U.S.A. IS AN OPEN QUESTION, AS THE NATION IS DIVIDED AMONG ITSELF AND IS GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTANT FROM EVEN IT'S REAL THREATS).

ISRAEL IS THE PROVERBIAL "CANARY IN THE COAL MINE" IN THE WORLD WAR AGAINST JIHADISM.  HAVE WE IN THE U.S.A. FORGOTTEN NINE-ELEVEN ALREADY?  WE ARE BUT A MONTH AWAY FROM THE "BAR MITZVAH" YEAR SINCE NINE-ELEVEN.  WE DARE NOT CHOOSE TO BE BLIND TO THE REAL THREAT OF I.S.I.S. (OR I.S.I.L.), AS I.S.I.S. BEHEADS SYRIA AND IRAQ, ENSLAVES THEIR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, AND CRUELLY (AND CRUDELY) CUTS OUT THE CLITORISES OF THEIR HUMILIATED, SUBJUGATED FEMALE CAPTIVES.

IF EVER WAS A TIME TO ENGAGE THE DRAFT, NOW IS THAT TIME.  AND IF THAT DRAFT INITIALLY SERVES PRIMARILY DOMESTIC PURPOSES, THEN THAT IN ITSELF WOULD YET BE A GOOD START.  WE FAIL TO BE BRAVE IN THIS RESPECT AT OUR OWN AMERICAN PERIL.

IT IS NOT A BRAVE CHOICE TO CONTINUE A POLICY OF WEAKNESS, NOR A BRAVE CHOICE FOR THIS NATION TO STUFF ITSELF SILLY ON MCNUGGETS, EVEN AS THE WORLD AT LARGE GOES TO PIECES.  NOR DARE WE FORGET THE PRESSING ISSUES OF THE UKRAINE, OF THE ASIAN SEAS, AND OF EVER MINDFUL TIBET.

PERHAPS IT IS A PRESIDENTIAL CALCULATION, THAT THE SHOCK OF I.S.I.S. MUST NEEDS BE THE CATALYST TO IGNITE IRAQ INTO THE TYPE OF UNITY IT MUST MANIFEST IN ORDER FOR GOOD TO COME TO IRAQ FOR THE LONG RUN.  PERHAPS SUCH A SUCCESS IN IRAQ MAY THEN SERVE VALUE AS MODEL FOR SYRIA AND FOR AFGHANISTAN.  IF THIS IS THE PRESIDENTIAL CALCULATION, THEN WE CAN ONLY PRAY THAT IT IS THE CORRECT CALCULATION AND THAT THE EFFECTS OF THAT CALCULATED POLICY WILL NOT BE FALL TERRIBLY SHORT OF GOAL.