Posted on 03/24/2011 4:43:59 PM PDT by Ari Bussel
A New Wrinkle in Time By Norma Zager
“Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life.” Napoleon Hill
Last night at our how-do-we-save-the-world meeting (yes, we actually do meet) a very smart man posed a question whose answer caused me great angst.
What do you think will happen, he asked me, when the United Nations recognizes Palestine as a sovereign state and sends in peacekeeping troops? The United States will be part of that deployment and suddenly U.S. soldiers will be fighting against Israelis.
Well now, that’s a whole other kettle of gefilte fish isn’t it?
All those liberal Jews who believed if their solution to Israel’s problems would only be implemented and Israel gave back everything and made nice, all would work out fine. How will they feel when their tax money is going to kill Israeli soldiers?
Now we have a ball game, as they say.
Americans, much unlike our founding fathers, have become a nation of hedonists. Where once they planned for eventualities hundreds of years in the future, now there is no plan for even tomorrow. Little thought is given to how current choices will affect future generations, or even a month ahead.
Can a society become so hedonistic without signing its own death warrant?
Nope. Just ask the Roman Empire.
Rome fell when it became all about them. America is now all about us.
We pick and choose whom to fight for as is evidenced with our current faux war against Libya.
I am quite at a loss to explain how no one seemed inspired to fight when women were being murdered in the streets of Iran. Is an Iranian woman’s life any less valuable than a Libyan?
Don’t bother to even conjure up a plausible explanation. There is none.
It all seems to hinge on American politics. Whenever our President decides he needs a distraction from the bad press and lack of answers to America’s problems, he enters into a war.
Lucky for the Libyans things are real crap in this country otherwise they would be left to their own devices like the poor Iranians who also battled and lost their lives to overthrow an evil regime.
So I guess it isn’t really even about what’s good for America, but what’s good for an incumbent President seeking reelection.
Politicians! You gotta love ‘em.
So I will return to my opening topic, the United Nations and its pathetic poor excuse to exist and how Americans may feel about the U.S. battling Israelis.
I’ll bet that eventuality never entered your mind.
First and foremost most Americans who can count to ten are aware of the fact that the two billion dollars we give the UN every year is like lighting a match to good money. Add to that the millions in parking tickets the deranged diplomats receive and must be forgiven when they use the NY city streets as their personal parking lot.
Plus, there is not a chance in this world the UN would cut a break for Israel.
After all, they have been systematically attempting to destroy the Jewish State since 1948 when they suffered buyer’s remorse over the mandate to return Israel to the Jewish people.
This is no small dilemma for American Jews and Christians who support Israel.
Thinking about such an occurrence and actually watching as Americans battle Israelis will present a picture most in the world never thought they would live to see.
It is frightening portrait of American disloyalty and a sad testament to a nation that once held integrity and principles in highest esteem. We must also think about the consequence that might ensue if Israel is pushed into a corner alone and without her once strongest ally. I fear they may be more drastic than the world may wish or imagine.
The threat of nuclear attack on Israel has been kept at bay by the prospect of swift and deadly retaliation from the United States. If the U.S. is no longer an ally, but on the side of Israel’s enemies, I’m afraid the scenario is scarier than a Stephen King novel.
Let’s play what if?
What if you are Israel, a tiny little speck in a sea of hostile Muslim nations? You have missiles attacking you on all fronts to wipe you off the earth.
It will be left to one man to decide whether to allow Israel to be annihilated, or fight back.
The Jewish people have an expression, “Never Again.” And although too many Jewish people have forsaken that credo and turned traitor or become indifferent, Israel in the end must honor that pledge made 64 years ago to six million ghosts.
Make no mistake; the button will be pushed. If Israel goes, it’s taking the entire Middle East and beyond along, too. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
Nothing will stop the destruction and when the bombs start flying, the entire region will be laid bare.
So much for the Muslim Caliphate the Islamic extremists are so hoping to arrange with Israel out of the way.
Israel will do what it ultimately needs to do. The six million Jews living in Israel will not die alone this time. Perhaps that should be carefully considered before the United States adds its manpower to the battle and turns its back on its former friend and ally.
The Middle East is in turmoil and no one can predict how it will resolve itself. Will the new governments be stable, responsible and terror-free? Or will they be even worse than those who came before?
Unless we dig up Jean Dixon, we pretty much have to wait and see.
America has bought into the Palestinian fairy tale hype and now the world is at risk. However, there is only reality after all the false stories and marketing campaigns are over.
This is not the Twilight Zone or a parallel universe. Not another galaxy far, far away or star system populated by Jedi Warriors. It is Earth, and the truth is, the Arabs have done a hellava job in the PR department and they are winning the war. So well in fact they have even turned the U.S. to their side.
I fear we are all in for a rude awakening one day soon.
As Bette Davis said in All About Eve, “fasten your seat belts, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.”
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First Published March 24, 2011
My personal theory is that Israel and the Russians will coordinate to get the truth about zerO into the media.
Russia has its own problems and they do not need a world-wide Islamist conflagration. Notice that they have been very verbal about this FUBAR kinetic operation.
Don’t need Jean Dixon to know where this is all headed. I read the Book, and have some idea how it ends. The details I am not completely sure about. The Bible says the “Restrainer” (USA ?) will be removed and all hell will break loose. It is going to be the worst of times such has never been nor ever will be. The” Religion of Peace” (sarc)
will turn this earth into nuclear holocost. Unless God intervenes, no life will survive. (btw- earthquakes and disasters in many palces are part of the beginning of the END) I pray for Israel, the apple of God’s eye. God will curse those who curse Israel, and bless those that bless Israel. That is in the same Book. Shalom Ari.
and we will be nation of Spanish speaking Muslims
The makes me sick to even contemplate it; however, I also remember the infamous “Twenty-Nine Palms” questionnaire given to US Marines back in the late 80s. The primary question asked if Marines would fire upon fellow American citizens? If I remember rightly, the answer was yes. I don’t recall the percentage that answered “yes” or if it was provided. Obviously, the questionnaire created quite a stir. I suspect the Israeli question will create a similar stir once it is generally known - as it should.
I wish I could believe you. But Obama just told the military to attack Libya, without so much as asking Congressional approval much less getting a declaration of war, and I've not heard of a single officer or soldier objecting to these outrageous and unconstitutional orders. They are meekly submitting to UN directives, contra the U.S. Constitution.
So we have a military of lawless thugs doing Obama's bidding and private agenda on the taxpayer dime. Not exactly a noble precedent. I'd like to think that there are some who are at least wrestling in their conscience about it, but I've not even seen that much.
As much as many conservatives are finding this objectionable all of a sudden, the broader constitutional questions have been utterly ignored for years, so I am having a hard time getting excited about it.
Remember, at Qaddafi’s orders, in 1986, a disco was bombed in Berlin, killing two US military personnel. Then, again at his orders, the plane full of US military personnel was bombed, crashing on Lockerbie, Scotland. At any time after that, the US was effectively at war with Libya and free to commence hostilities. Ronald Reagan did so, a bit.
The exposure of the Khan proliferation network was, in effect, the final straw, and Qaddafi was given an ultimatum, one way or another, to discontinue his efforts, along with others, to build a nuclear weapon.
It was believed that he had been using his immense underground water project to conceal his nuclear activities:
So Qaddafi, probably unable to continue his nuclear scheme, discontinued it, and gave some minimal help to the west against al-Qaeda, that wanted to overthrow him, too.
This does not redeem him in our light. Thus, efforts to throw him out when the opportunity presented itself does not represent aggressive warfare. He started it.
And the two big ifs: If the rebels are able to displace him, and *if* they are less obnoxious than he is, then credit where credit is due to Barry, even though he was a day late and a dollar short.
It still doesn’t mean that the US military will fight Israel, unless they attack the US military first.
Russia could have exercised their veto, too. They saw the plum of the US (via Obama) stepping into a manure pit...And we have, but I think even the Russians underestimated the extent of that.
Despite all the posturing and blather from just about every sovereign state in the world, there will not be a palestinian state. It is not in the arabs' interests.
Irrelevant.
What sort of pressure does that put on them?
Can the world just watch us fall and calmly go about their own interests? Seems we are all too connected for that, any longer.
REMEMBER MICHAEL NEW!!!
Not Europe, perhaps, but others would revel in our demise.
Seems we are all too connected for that, any longer.
No, no pressure at all. Their poor are dirt poor, and used to it. The rich are filthy rich, beyond needing more to maintain anything but ammo and arms research. If we tank, what do they need arms for besides maintaining internal order?
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