War Is in the Air
By David Solway, FrontPage
When one surveys the world situation, one cannot react with anything but intense disquiet and apprehension. The premonition of imminent catastrophe cannot be shunted aside as unthinkable or as the capricious imaginings of the congenitally unstable. War is in the air, as it was in 1914 and 1939, before the actual outbreak of hostilities. And the flashpoints are instantly discernible, namely, the Middle East and the South Asian theater. The sequel appears to be pretty much inevitable.
In a certain sense, assigning blame for the coming eruption is a useless enterprise. Al-Qaeda and the Iranian Shi’ite regime are only acting in character; they are the carnivores of the current political world and cannot be expected to begin acting like herbivores. They have openly declared their intentions many times over and have given every indication of being willing to use nuclear weapons once they control or develop them. Those of us who downplay the utter fanaticism of Twelver Shi’a theology or the visceral savagery and determination of al-Qaeda—both Iran and al-Qaeda may be plausibly defined as “non-rational adversaries”—are living in the flimsiest of bubbles. Russia and China have regularly collaborated with the potential “slayers of mankind” as it is in their nature to do. The former is concerned with supply-profit, the latter with energy demands, and both with the purpose of further weakening the United States. Their lack of forethought is endemic and incurable. As for the feeble European democracies, they cannot do other than posture and appease in the face of an approaching firestorm. That is part of their genome.
But if responsibility for the gathering storm is to be ascribed, it is to the United States of America, in virtue of its pre-eminent position on the global stage and of its failure, under the most dangerous and politically corrupted president in its history, to address the looming threat. For the U.S. until recently was the only nation in the world that enjoyed the power, the means, the legitimacy and the authority to avert the coming disaster, but has now abdicated that responsibility. Indeed, its conduct in the international arena has been entirely myopic and counter-productive.
Its Libyan intervention is a blatant misadventure, without a clear and sustained strategy and in violation of the War Powers Resolution and the Constitution. Its levying of sanctions against Iran is a mordant joke and has had no effect on deterring the mullahs in their quest for nuclear weapons and the development of a long-range delivery system. Its support of the misnamed Arab Spring has led to the credible prospect of an anti-American and anti-Israeli Muslim Brotherhood regime assuming power in Egypt. Its pressuring Israel to make untenable concessions to the Palestinian Authority has only hardened the latter’s negotiating position and rendered the “peace process” null and void.
The absence of a strong and effective Middle East policy has facilitated the takeover of Lebanon by Hezbollah, empowered Hamas in dominating a unity government with Fatah, and permitted Turkey to drift inexorably into the Islamic orbit. And just as the U.S. had little to say about Iran’s crushing of its own people during the popular revolt of 2009, so it remains essentially mute as Syria’s Bashar Assad slaughters his own countrymen with complete impunity. After all, according to a recent statement of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Bashar Assad is a “reformer.” The comedy of terrors is literally mind-boggling.
The result of the American forfeiture of its political will, practical intelligence and moral inheritance, as it grows increasingly to resemble the political caricature that goes by the name of the European Union, is all too predictable. It means that there are only two countries in the world left to meet the Islamic nuclear menace: India, which will have to deal with Pakistan in the event that al-Qaeda gains control of the country’s nuclear capability; and Israel, which at tremendous cost to itself will have little choice but to act against a nuclearizing Iran and its terrorist proxies.
There is no point in deluding ourselves any longer or smugly dismissing apocalyptic scenarios as mere unbridled fear-mongering. War is going to break out in the Middle East, possibly later this year and almost certainly in 2012, and eventually in South Asia. There is a stark likelihood that these may be WMD wars. For if Israel is targeted by Hezbollah’s 40,000-50,000 missiles, some of which are reported to be fitted with chemical and biological payloads and which can reach every corner of the country, it may need to reply in cataclysmic kind in order to survive. Abandoned by its American ally and left to its own resources, it may quite simply have no alternative, unless it agrees to commit national suicide. Despite the promising development of the Arrow anti-ballistic missile program, neither preemption—known in customary international law as “anticipatory self-defense”—nor second-strike reprisal can be ruled out. And if the U.S.-subsidized but unreliable Pakistani regime with its estimated 70-90 nuclear warheads goes rogue, with the finger of al-Qaeda on the nuclear button, India too may have no option but to respond in the same manner.
These two potential war zones are heating up. The Japanese Sankei Shimbun newspaper reveals that North Korea dispatched 160 nuclear experts to Iran in May, and Fars News Agency reports on Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardan’s recent visit Tehran to discuss “a vast range of issues.” We can readily imagine what some of these topics will be. Between Iran and Pakistan falls the shadow.
True, the Korean peninsula is also a potential war zone, but despite the North’s aggressive rheteoric and occasional acts of belligerence, it will be restrained by China for which a peninsular war on its borders is not in its interests. North Korea’s mischief making is mainly confined to the export of its nuclear technology and expertise to Iran and Syria. The Middle East and South Asia remain the epicenters of the approaching upheavals.
There is a slight chance that we may emerge from the present inflammable circumstances if we are providentially given two gifts: more time, and a new, vigorous and wiser American administration. Otherwise, those of us who are not immediately and physically implicated would have only one hope, that the carnage stays localized. But there is no guarantee that this will be the case. And we will then have deserved whatever calamity is inflicted upon us for our blindness, self-deception, anemic leadership and languid inactivity in the face of what might have been prevented.
The writing is on the wall and it does not take a Daniel to interpret it.
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U.S. policy was, before Barry changed it, chemical = biological = nuclear. In other words, the U.S. would regard any WMD attack as equivalent to a nuclear attack and respond in kind. Israel needs to make it clear that the same will happen should it be struck with any WMD.
Iranians are excellent chess players. However, war for them permits the sending of children into minefields. How demented is that! They can hold the West at bay by smart weapons development, but they cannot guarantee their proxies-in-arms or even their citizen armies will function to their satisfaction. In short, they will overstep their capabilities just to bring the end-of-days closer so they can experience it in their lifetimes. Their patience is limited by their lust for blood.
Brilliant article! Written clearly and without beating around the bush! Israel certainly is not relying on Obama, and if and when they feel the need will preempt. The great thing about Obama for Israel is that no one in Israel believes he is on their side, including the left in Israel. This is much better than having a believable fraud like Clinton who all he would need to say is, “Shalom Chaver”, and all of the left in Israel would be having an orgasm, in the false belief that he is looking out for them. So in sum, Obama is a blessing in disguise.
I don’t totally disagree with this assessment, though I hope for all of us, it is at least a little early.
But based on 40 plus years of hands on backroom political experience, in both us parties( in races from litterally dog catcher to president), my conclusion is, that the Barry Obama administration is almost entirely the result of mega rich American secular jews(granted they may slap on, one of your funny looking little hats for the high holy days occassionally, but esstenally liberalism is their God).
Now granted, I’m just a simple goyim boy, and don’t understand the ends and outs of the tribe. But this question will soon arise more and more from both friend and foe. It is rather preplexing. Are they that supremely cunning, or just that incredibly stupid dispite all the money and education they have?
This as you suggest could geat real existensial, real quickly.
Highlander,
Yes, my fellow Jewish libtards voted largely for Hussein, but Jews are less than 1% of the US population. Hussein was elected by a coalition of the usual suspects: blacks (95%), Hispanics, guilty-white libtards from Ivy league schools (from your major population centers), gays, and the “youth” vote. You can’t pin Obama’s election solely on Jews. America is a population of dumbed-down imbeciles from decades of public/government education/indoctrination. Legalize pot, marinate them in sex, promote sodomy and abortion and there you have it…..depraved, vapid imbeciles. That’s the reason we have this satanic impostor in the White House. He is only the symptom of the real problem.
Very well said Michal.
In fact, Highlander, a reasonable slice of that 1% – the quiet slice – are far more “basic” in their instincts than the “mega rich American secular Jews”.
It’s actually Ehud Barak who can take credit for the rise of Hezbollah and Arial Sharon for Hamas’s rise.
The key to ME peace is actually to remove Iran’s gateway to its proxies, Syria. And that seems precisely what’s going to happen. It’s going to be so dramatic that it is specifically mentioned in prophecy – “Damascus will be a heap of ruins. Isaiah 17.
HOW WILL THE ONCOMING CONFRONTATION WITH THE MULTI NATION ARMARDA AGAINST ISRAEL DUE IN SEPTEMBER BE FORESTALLED, WITHOUT A WAR?
WONT THE MULTINATIONAL ARMARDA BEING SENT AGAINST ISRAEL START A WAR?
I pray that there will be no war. the Jews and Israel have suffered disproportionately. It is a terrible thing to think of. I am preparing myself psychologically, but this time will volunteer to help Israel whatever way necessary.I pray to Hashem that the Arabs destroy themselves in this so called Arab Spring first.
As a daughter of Holocaust survivors, born in a dp camp in Linz Austria, I am very concerned that history is unfolding in a terrible way.
Sima
Highlander,
It has been for long known amongst us, front line fighters in Jewish Eretz Israel that a fraction of our people had crossed the lines into unJudaism. They are certainly a minority of those that elected the one with the birth certificate, but wield some influence Regretfully there are long historic precedents to that phenomenon. All along we had what some call “erev rav”, infiltrators, also turncoats and outright traitors infesting our ranks.
The Nazi selected “Judenrat”, camp capos, groups as those led by some US prominent Jews and presently the fake “pro-Israel” gangs such as Jstreet, etc. Even the University Campus Jewish organizaion “Hillel” is tainted as well others are. University ranks are also infested.
They indeed impose hardships to us and also cause disproportionate difficulties in the US and elsewhere.
There are signs that there are corrective actions on the way…
Highlander,
Your post above sounds pretty much like an anti-Semitic rant. Ah, the evil influence of “Jewish money”…right out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, could be!
The extent to which the Jewish community here is responsible for Obama is something of an open question, I do admit, however.
On the one hand, as Michal rightly points out above, Jews make up only 1% of the U.S. population (actually, I believe it is closer to 2%). Except in swing states with large Jewish populations (Ohio, Florida), our votes don’t make a huge difference either way.
But we do send money to campaigns, and participate in grassroots activism on behalf of candidates we like, far out of proportion to our numbers. According to one grassroots Democratic party operative I know (an Israeli expat in New York), wealthy Jewish donors contributed about a third of Obama’s war chest.
But how much difference did Jewish activism and $$$ make? On the activism side, I’m sure we paled in comparison to both the collegiate “army” Obama had, and groups like ACORN.
As to money, Obama outspent McCain at least two-to-one. Some estimates I’ve seen are seven-to-one. In spite of all that money flowing, however, right after the Republican convention, McCain was the first of the two candidates to breach the 50% barrier in the polls. This was a solid lead he held right up until the crash three weeks later.
Despite his disadvantages – money, a hostile media, the legacy of Bush – McCain was clearly on track to win in ’08. The timing of that crash was mighty convenient for Obama, no? And interestingly, a Pentagon report was released last year indicating that there were very suspicious movements of money in the financial markets on the eve of the crash, apparently designed to enable the crash.
The Gulf shiekdoms are huge players in the markets. They have to put all that cash somewhere; can’t spend it all on palaces, private jets, boozing, and whoring. Except for the way he has dealt with Iran (and Egypt), Obama has been a Gulf Arab’s wet dream in terms of foreign policy. Where Israel is concerned, he’s everything they ever could have wanted.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Obama amounts to little more than a Saudi-programmed anti-Israel political cruise missile. That Jews supported him here in the numbers they did most certainly did not represent “cunning”, but rather, the greatest act of mass stupidity in history. People like me warned and warned our fellow Jews here what he would do with Israel, but most wanted to believe his lies, and brushed our warnings off as “paranoid alarmism”. Now, Jews here are deserting Obama in droves. Too bad they were asleep three years ago!
No, we did not “get him elected”. We helped. Absent our help, it might have been a closer election, but that is it. The crash is what got him elected, a crash whose timing was engineered to do just that, and I don’t think the culprits there were “wealthy Jews”…far from it.
‘Nuff said.
Been noticed and commented several times in the past but then he is one of many who comment here who blame Jews for all the sins and evils they seem to hate like Obama, liberals, leftists, socialists or anyone not like them. Our problems is that there is some truth to their stereotyped view of Jews. Jews were exiled from Spain largely in response to the exploding influence of the Marranos, the converted Jews. As Christian converts, they encountered no restrictions and almost took over Spanish society.All societies strive to preserve their values against the onslaught of outsiders. Germans of the pre-Nazi era feared Jews as communists bent on destroying their society; liberal Jews in America serve the very same role. American Jewish liberals were at the forefront of racial equality, affirmative action, gay rights, homosexual marriage, and many other developments which common Americans of the “moral majority” perceive as questionable. Stalin was preparing to exterminate Soviet Jewry in 1953 in response to Jewish influence in Soviet society.
In Germany, Reform Judaism and communism trumpeted the assimilation of Jews into German society; a decade after the Weimar Republic, Jews were on the road to annihilation.
Jews fear Gentiles, and they work, consciously or otherwise, to subvert the existing societies. Thus the abundance of Jewish liberals who attack the traditional morals of every society.
The Crash and the most stupid candidate any political party could nominate. Palin sealed the Republican fate by driving more independents into the Obama camps than she brought to the Republicans. America was still not ready for a Black president and all the Republicans had to do was to off the electorate a credible duo to run against Obama.
How do I know? After the Bush disaster he left office with around 30% popularity and with a credible candidate they could have overcome the crash as it was the results were not a landslide against the republicans. Most white males voted republican.
Obama may not be a genius or even all that smart but McCain is a stupid moron. What does that say about Republicans, (they also nominated Dole)?
‘Nuff said.
Salli,
I believe that the September thing will cause an outpoor of a variety of reactions here, ranging from the usual renegades drumming, sabotaging on behalf of surrender and to a healthy amount of smerks and laughter.
The Arabs, militarily, are as useless today as they have been for decades. No amount of US military hardware can change a donkey into a fighting tiger. They do possess rockets and could cause damage before turning into a cloud of smoke and rubble and if they use chemicals or bacteriological weapons they would turn into molten green glass. Anyone egging the monsters should carefully consider if their direct of indirect intervention is advantageous to them.
A few words about the US rotating, repositioning and otherwise dancing around with the fleets. They are fooling no one… including us.
The fact that for YEARS, many Muslim terrorist training camps have been allowed to grow and prosper in our country is an indication of how deep the betrayal of America is by our leaders. Our leaders clearly want these Muslims to attack non-Muslim American innocents! The betrayal of America did not start with Obama, but under Muslim Obama, the process is now accelerating.
Americans have been sold out as a people, just as Israel’s Jews have been sold out by their leaders who agreed to negotiate with, and give half of holy Israel and Jerusalem to barbaric Muslim enemies bent on Jewish genocide.
Google “Muslim terrorist training camps in America”. There are many.
Iran has vowed repeatedly to “wipe Israel off the map” and “destroy America”. Iran fully intends to do just that. It is a terrible crime against humanity that Iran’s plans for a nuclear holocaust has not been stopped.
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