Imagine: No Enemies
Only Disillusioned Allies
From the best available data, one can only surmise that
approximately seventy percent of Americans are uninformed or
ill-informed. But, we’ve learned some shocking news, second hand
from the Middle East this week. It began with the revelation that
“the United States is one of the greatest Muslim nations in the
world.” No kidding?
Al Jazeera, with all its resources, including a
bureau in Washington D.C. never even figured that one out.
Obviously, we’re not the only ones being taken for fools.
We also learned that “any world system that elevates one nation
above another is destined to fail.” What world system? The
UN? Some
nations are elevated above others for a host of reasons, even in the
UN.
The Muslim world learned, hours before most of us this week, that
the U.S. has much more in common with them than we, or even they
ever guessed. It turns out that we share all kinds of “values” that
neither faction ever considered like, “the dignity of man.”
The radical extremists were informed that they’re not really enemies
of the United States at all! Sure, the U.S. has made its share of
mistakes abroad, just like
militant
Islamists, just like
Israel and
so on. But it’s a new day, and we need to recognize now that we
really all want the same things and now we can be friends. Never
mind the clear doctrines of
Islam that warn Muslims against
friendship with infidels, and encourage their murder at every
opportunity.
No doubt many in the Muslim world, numbering over a billion, were
amused to learn all they were told. All the masses learned from the
mainstream media here in the U.S. is that it’s a new day in
relations. The tone indicates what was already borne out and
reported in opinion polls throughout the Muslim Middle East. America
has been very bad indeed, showing favoritism to Israel, conducting
an unnecessary war in Iraq, even participating in the 1953 coup in
Iran. It is now ok for Muslims and Americans to despise that
self-serving old colonialist empire of the United States while
loving and respecting its new teleprompted president and realizing
that we are no longer what we were. Middle Eastern headgear must be
whirling, and some of us on this side of the world are feeling a
little dizzy too.
If you can boil six thousand words and over an hour of jaw-whipping
body language down to a few lines, they would read something like
this. That old United States of America was worthy of hatred, but
it’s a new day and we’re different now. We can no longer support and
defend free and democratic allies that stand in the path of Muslim
aspirations. Iran is entitled to a nuclear energy program, and
Israel will be snubbed, pressured and warned by the United States
while we honor our historical commitments to them and make sure the
Palestinians get their state. Motion sickness, anyone?
No one in Iran yet knows the lyrics to “We are the world, we are the
children…” Though the message was beamed throughout the Middle East
and all over the world, the ruling
Mullahs thought better of
exposing the Iranian population to the lecture against fear and
mistrust.
Osama is not amused by all these claims of shared values. He just
warned, “Let Americans prepare to reap what the leaders of the White
House sow,” in statements related to U.S. influence in
Pakistan.
Israelis fear they no longer have an ally in the United States.
Having just completed one of the most comprehensive “missile attack
drills” in their history, they are acutely aware of the threats they
face from the many enemies around them, but particularly from Iran’s
burgeoning nuclear capabilities. Europe has its own well-established
concerns with its unassimilated Muslim immigrants. Europe is also
wary of traversing the path of profligate stimulus spending of
non-existent money. In
Germany,
Angela Merkel stared at our
president with a combination of horror and bumfuzzlement as he read
from side to side.
Nobody on the world stage, least of all, we the people, have any
idea who we are or what we’re about anymore. Enemies are no longer
enemies, they just don’t realize how different we’ve become. Allies
are no longer really friends, they just need to get with the program
and come to grips with the fact that the past is so yesterday, to
reiterate somebody’s phrase. Then again, seventy percent of
Americans break down into about thirty percent twitterpated and
forty percent too caught up in daily pursuits to look beyond the
fawning headlines of mainstream outlets.
“Violence is a dead end” we’ve all learned. But what happens to
friends and allies when those factions addicted to the violence
their brand of religion dictates acquire the means to eradicate
infidels. How much soothing rhetoric will be remembered when nuclear
fireballs loom skyward. How will the teleprompter read then? Chances
are, we’ll find out.
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