Who believes in fairy tales anymore?
The MSM and pretty much all the Netizens have concluded over the past two weeks that Israel and the United States are in a historic crisis that may reshape US / Israel relations. The neocons say that Obama is either naive or a muslim sympathizer. The lefties say it’s about time the US stopped being pushed around by the "Jewish lobby," and that even harsher measures are called for.
Nothing has made sense to me over this entire period. The announcement of new housing in E. Jerusalem while Biden was there was simply too stupid to have been unintentional. The response of the US, first by Biden then by Clinton and White House spokesmen was so disproportional that it seemed even stupider.
All of a sudden, Gen. Petraius decides to announce for the first time ever that Israeli policy endangers US servicemen.
It’s almost as though our leaders all attended a PCP party. What’s wrong with them? Don’t they see the horrible threat that the entire civilized world is under from the Iranian nuclear program?
So I’ve devised a (wishful thinking) fairy tale to explain this seemingly self-destructive insane behavior. It is based on the premise that all players in the game are smarter not dumber than any of us and that they are well aware of everything we can see and more.
In this fairy tale, Obama realized that nothing short of military action would stop the Iranians after their announcement that they were centrifuging their uranium to 20%. With the world essentially unified in its opposition to Iran after their contemptuous rejection of all Obama’s overtures, he does not need to build support for a strike on Iran. He already has it.
In my fairy tale, he sends Biden to Israel together with instructions to Netanyahu to take some action that would have no effect on the peace process, but which could be played up as if it could. Together they would hide behind the cloud of this "crisis" while they planned this strike on Iran.
Think about it....
Think about how many hours have been spent behind secret closed doors by the top echelons of the US and the Israeli governments since then. Not that there wasn’t plenty before, but not on this level. Think about the press blackout Obama ordered under cover of the "crisis."
Think about the bunker buster bombs delivered to Diego Garcia. Think about the buildup of US forces in Afghanistan on the Iran border rather than in the Taliban trouble spots. Think about radical Muslims around the world celebrating this discord between the great and the little Satan.
In my fairy tale, this whole "crisis" is a disinformation ruse tailor made for radical Islam. Israel and America or Israel with tacit American support will attack and defeat Ahmadabad. Nothing would serve Obama’s as well as Netanyahu’s political futures better than this. Nothing would serve the interests of Israel and the US more than this.
Nothing would server the interests of world civilization more than this...
Of course it’s just a fairy tale. Our countries are both run by corrupt fools with no interest or understanding of what’s at stake or how to deal with it, right?
Silly me. I can’t help but keep hoping that one day fairy tales will come true.
Joseph Wouk