With America focused completely on Trump’s conviction under the stealth version of the 1798 Sedition Act, the Obama-led whizzes in charge of our foreign policy let Old Joe read out a grand new proposal for a Gaza ceasefire.
Obama’s fingerprints are all over this beauty. Obama has used hatred to his advantage, as is his way. We all hate, don’t we? Therefore, no one side stands out — all are equivalent. (RELATED: Make America Hate Again)
Despite his genius for presenting himself as at one with our American traditions, he is aligned with those whose hatred is the guiding star of their politics. Nazi, Shmatzi — everybody hates everybody else. Everybody uses hate to their advantage, so what’s the difference between one side and another? Hamas, Israel — they’re all the same to these guys. Though they know they haven’t won on the politics of it, they have moved the ball way downfield in this blue country and wish to force their view as long as they still have the power to do so.
It’s a new version of the same old thing, the nihilism that infected the Western world after World War I. No difference between one side and another; all the old stories are bunk; civilization is just a pretty lie; religions are all just fancy excuses for hate. Just make the best deal you can, and don’t fight anyone (except your political opponents, and them with the overwhelming force that cynics always bring to bear when they rule). (READ MORE by Shmuel Klatzkin: Welcome to Venezuela, America)
American Foreign Policy Was Once Dependable
In the ’30s, democracies were flaccid in the face of the robust and energetic avatars of cynical force: Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler. Despite its many advantages in hardware and reputation, France’s nihilism had hollowed out the resolve that enabled it to suffer and prevail in the Great War. It is stunning to realize that as late as May 1940, the leading candidate to succeed Chamberlain as prime minister was Lord Halifax, who, as historians point out, was prepared and ready to make peace with a triumphant Germany, pull Britain’s army out of Europe, accept second-class status to Germany, and rely on Hitler’s assurance that he would respect the diminished independence he offered.
But Churchill rallied Britain around the story of civilization and freedom. By civilization, he meant Christian civilization — a civilization dedicated to the dignity of the individual and the rejection of hate. The story he told resonated with America. The very first meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt yielded an iconic photo of Churchill and FDR, on the deck of a battleship, fervently singing a hymn together, as they sat amidst the servicemen at prayer.
America fought what Eisenhower would later call the “Crusade in Europe.” Both there and in the Pacific fight against the Japanese power worshippers, Americans put their lives on the line again and again in such living hells as Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the Bulge, and over the skies of Germany day after day with no fighter protection.
Despite the horrors of the war, the great story of civilization that upholds human freedom and dignity gave us purpose and enabled us to see the job through to the extirpation of Hitler’s Nazism and Japanese militarism. The job wasn’t done until it was done, because the result had to be equal to the sacrifice. Not only that, but those who had sacrificed maintained their dedication to see us through decades of resolute and dangerous opposition to the great cynical power that remained — Stalin and the regimes he set in motion.
Not only that, but it was the Greatest Generation who saw us through the resolution of our internal racism, who were revolted by the scenes of Americans forcing their fellow Americans into a second-class life. Truman integrated the armed forces, Eisenhower sent the National Guard into Little Rock to enforce the Supreme Court’s banning of school segregation, LBJ saw through comprehensive civil rights and voting rights legislation and the whole country ratified a constitutional amendment against the poll taxes used to deny the vote to a whole race.
The Biden Administration’s Ceasefire Betrays the American Story
But the Obama revolution turned this around. Infected by the disease of academia — woke before we knew the word — he built a deep inner intellectual structure that enabled him to slowly and deliberately take apart the guts of the American story while projecting the image that he was upholding it. Despite his uniting rhetoric in 2008, his policies reflected Ivy League cynicism. Americans are bad guys just as much as anyone else. Make the best deal as you can with the regimes that live for hatred and domination, and get rich yourself.
The result today is this last Biden pronunciamiento, attempting to forcibly reframe the meaning of the war in Gaza. It is based on this singular idea: There is no difference between the Hamas engineers of war by rape, torture, and hostage-taking and a constitutional government that has maintained its freedoms throughout 76 years of unrelenting war against its independence. (READ MORE: With All Eyes on Gaza, Hezbollah Attacks From the North)
The Biden administration requires that Israel must let Hamas survive. What’s a little orgiastic torture, rape, and slaughter? Nothing worth fighting about too seriously Nothing that needs the decisive rejection that only a complete defeat can express. Put Hamas back in power. No big deal. Withdraw. Let Hamas parade before the world as the winners. Reward them with the attainment of recognition. Forever incentivize terror as the best way to win.
The wokesters who are in power have tried to slip this through while we are distracted — while they are in the process of achieving a seismic change in our country through their subversion of our justice system. They believe that America must embrace the nihilism and cynicism that form their true faith. It’s all power; civilization is not real. The ritual which this religion now requires is the international establishment of the absolute equivalence between the Hamas Nazis and the liberty and human dignity that till now have animated our national striving and Israel’s.
The American rise to greatness has been linked to the story that we have lived up to more than any country that has trod the world’s stage. Our best leaders told that story best. Lincoln was the most eloquent in this country. His words clarified what was worth living for and what required our sacrifice. Thousands and thousands of Americans responded with the ultimate dedication to the aim: “Let us die to make men free,” as the Battle Hymn of the Republic put it. Or, in Lincoln’s words, “that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
The Obama/Biden wokesters think that this is only silly nonsense. Their cynicism is the truth. Like religious fanatics of past ages, like the believers in the savage religions of Hamas and the secular totalitarians, they are intent on forcing their beliefs on us all.
It’s up to us all to show what we truly believe. Our sacrificial dedication alone will make it clear.
