by Eric Peters
It’s a very strange thing to hear someone whine about being punched in the face after they walked up to someone and cold-cocked them without warning. That is what the state of Israel and its apologists are doing right now.
Tel Aviv is in ruins! Civilians have been killed by the Iranians!
Well, what did Israel and its apologists expect?
Apparently, the expectation is that the Iranians just accept Israel murdering 170 schoolgirls as well as the rest of the murder and mayhem that came along with the joint Israeli-American sneak attack on Iran. This is what’s meant by chutzpah – a word that encompasses audacity and insolence and hypocrisy.
Imagine, if your mind is capable of such an imagining, the Japanese whining about the Doolittle Raid or the eventual fire-bombing of Japanese cities. Did Menachem Begin cry for Germany when its cities lay in ruin?
Oy meet vey.
We have arrived at what might be described as the ne plus ultra moment of cognitive dissonance. At least in some quarters. The people who decided to start this war and felt no compunction about the murder and mayhem they decided to rain down upon Iran now complain about the same being rained down upon them. It is insufferable. It causes a decent person to feel both ill and angry. It is something like hearing a steroid-addled cop scream Stop Resisting! as he beats the shit out of someone merely trying to ward off the blows.
And then charges the battered, bleeding victim with “assault.”
Who are these people? To borrow a phrase made famous by another apologists for the state of Israel. The answer is, people for whom all sympathy is being lost – if it has not already been lost. Would these people be crying out if their sneak attack had been accomplished without repercussions for them? I have not heard a peep from Trump – much less that “Netanyahu” person – expressing remorse for the murder of those little girls. Their lives are of no value to people such as Trump and that “Netanyahu” person. Just as the 70,000 lives extinguished in Gaza are of no value to either of these people.
Only certain lives matter. The lives of the self-chosen people and their useful idiot acolytes of the Scofield School, such as the egregious Mike Huckabee.
There is one person whose conscience isn’t dead. He is Joe Kent, the now former director of the National Counterterrorism Center – who resigned yesterday because he “cannot in good conscience” continue to be associated with this evil, stupid and unprovoked war. In a statement released the other day, he touched the third rail no other person within the Trump administration has had the moral fortitude – the balls – to touch: “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
Boom.
Kent – unlike Trump – is a combat veteran, which means he has seen war up close and personal. He knows what it is. Trump played toy soldier as a teenager but developed bone spurs when the time came for him to “serve.” That is to say, when he faced being forced into involuntary servitude to face death and possibly mete out death to people who supposedly constituted a “threat” to . . . well, something. There were dominos about to fall, it was said. Of a piece with the nuclear weapons Iran has been on the cusp of developing for any day now for the past 40 years.
Trump sensibly declined such “service” but now – 60 years later – when he is safe from such “service” and its repercussions, he bellows like a Cape Buffalo that others must be ready to “serve.” That sacrifices must be made.
Just not by him. Or his.
It is instructive to recall that JFK was reluctant about sending young men to Vietnam to kill Vietnamese and possibly be killed themselves. Maybe because JFK had seen war, too – as Kent has seen it. Paradoxically, men who have seen war seem less eager to send the next generation to war. It is almost always the ones who avoided it who seem most eager for it. It is a strange mixture of poltroonery and bellicosity.
As for Our Greatest Ally – as for us – the words of Arthur “Bomber” Harris come to mind:
So the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Of course, the Germans (like the Japanese) understood they had sown the wind. Our Greatest Ally does not understand it.
Or something much worse than that.
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