HOW TO SCRATCH AWAY AT THE LITTER BOX: THE ISRAEL-ANCHORED RELUCTANT ONES BULLY CHINA
“The time is fast coming when we shall be obliged to strike another blow in China . . .these half-civilized governments such as those in China, Portugal and Spanish America, all require a dressing every eight or ten years to keep them in order.”
Lord Palmerston, British Foreign Secretary, 1850. As quoted in Roy Moxham, Tea: The Extraordinary Story of the World’s Favorite Drink. (Philadelphia, PA: Running Press Book Publishers, 2009)
First draft
SUMMARY
The White House (the National Security Council/Dennis Ross) and the Israel Lobby (the Washington Institute for Near East Policy - -“the Institute”) have joined hands to bully China. Superficially, it’s about not wanting Israel to strike at Iran to disrupt its nuclear program. That hypothetical Israeli strike the NSC had used to recruit China on sanctions against Iran. The NSC personalities, bragging about their successful ploy against the Chinese on the pages of the Washington Post, informed China that an Israeli strike against Iran would hurt China. The message to the Chinese was hardly innocent. I’m confident the Chinese have interpreted the message similar to the way I have: Should Israel strike, and Iran retaliate against us in Iraq, we will make sure your oil supplies are interrupted. Bombed, that is.
We want to stay in Iraq and will bring down the house for that.
Using Israel as a multi-purpose tool shows that the Reluctant Ones have adopted the same objectives as the Harmful Idiots. We’re on a course for war with the Islamic Republic, when the time is propitious to us. The Reluctant Ones have chosen to keep us in a state of crisis, not understanding that such state is the worst possible for a revival of consumer confidence. (This representation is a veneer; I don’t think they care.) We’re at war, one that is chosen for us by the Reluctant Ones. We shall remain in a crisis mode for a long time - - endless wars. Falling into the systemic power vacuum trap, and staying there, should remain our way of life.
Iran can either wrap up its nuclear program with the help of Russia and China, or it can go on the course it currently has adopted. If it wraps up its nuclear program, the Reluctant Ones and the Israelis will find yet another ruse to stay on top of them. No way out: we’re keeping Iraq and we shall reclaim Iran.
Be mindful though that who’s on top today may not be tomorrow. It’s always changing.
The likely response of the Chinese should hardly be expected to be innocent, either. China now is aware crystal clear that Israel’s Boys in Washington - - and the National Security Establishment behind them, using them to keep some distance from totally alienating China - - have declared an open war on it. Likely China will evolve two policies: one open (we shall cooperate with you on Iran), the other secret (we need insurance against your schemes, and Iran and its allies are our insurance. Accordingly, we will raise our support to them financially and otherwise.)
China shouldn’t be expected to believe that the Reluctant Ones and the Pentagon couldn’t ply open the ruse by Israel and its Boys that Iran’s nuclear arsenal, if ever, would pose an “existential” threat to Israel. Israel should by now possess a second-strike capability. Accordingly, Iran’s nuclear arsenal, if ever, would hardly be a threat. China knows that the current government in Iran is its best bet for oil contracts and for the safety of its installations not only in Iran, but in Iraq, too. An American regime in Iran could annul any-and-all gains made by China in both, Iran and Iraq. Hence the need for the insurance policy.
The bullying by Israel’s Boys has been a message to the Chinese and to all-concerned: With the harmful idiots, AIPAC rules; with the Reluctant Ones, the Institute rules. Both are part of the National Security Establishment, de facto and, for some, likely de jure.
DONA QUICHOTTE SHEDS LIGHT ON NATIONAL HELPLESSNESS
When I used to hold on to my cat and knead her, she would feel utterly helpless. As soon as I’d let go of her, she would run to her litter box, get inside, and scratch away wildly at the plastic. The floor around the litter box would be a mess and I’d have to vacuum. To the extent that cats know how to retaliate, Dona Quichotte was doing just that. She’s helpless in my hands; though she knows how to make me pay a price.
HOW TO BULLY CHINA: WE’LL BOMB YOUR OIL SUPPLIES
The Washington Post on November 26 featured an article, front page, “China’s backing on Iran followed dire predictions; before Obama’s visit, NSC warned leaders of Mideast turmoil.” One of the NSC men was Dennis Ross. I don’t know about the Chinese. But I can tell you that to the Arab elite Mr. Ross is but part-and-parcel of the Israel Lobby. To these sets of elite (governing and in the opposition), the Reluctant Ones in that Lobby have taken over from the Jewish Right. Together, they monopolize U.S. foreign policy in the Arab nation and its surrounding. In this instance, Mr. Ross’s association with the Israel Lobby is made all the more evident by the fact that the bullying of China had begun either before or in tandem with his “special mission” to that country. It had begun at the hands of the Israel Lobby when the Washington Institute on Near East Policy had given information to the Post obviously meant to complement the threat Mr. Ross had carried to the Chinese. (See below.) In addition, considered jointly the two articles indicate that the fusion between U.S. foreign policy and the Israel Lobby when it comes to the Arab nation is nearly complete. I’m truly impressed!
Newer yet: It seems to me that that monopoly is being expanded. Now these - - the Reluctant Ones among Israel’s Boys - - have used Iran’s alleged threat to Israel’s existence (utter nonsense—see below) to spread their influence in U.S. foreign policy to countries that are outside of the region of the Arab nation. They’re now up to bullying not Syria, not Iran - - but China itself. Note the following from the article:
“The Chinese were told that Israel regards Iran’s nuclear program as an ‘existential issue and that countries that have an existential issue don’t listen to other countries,’ according to a senior administration official.”
The Reluctant Ones are using Israel, their multi-purpose tool, as the bully, this time against China. (Um, wasn’t it a short time ago that Bald Samson had used the same against Iran?) Should Israel strike at Iran, the Chinese would be the biggest losers. How, pray tell. Easy: The Reluctant Ones would make sure they are. Note the following not-so-subtle threat:
“In making the case to China, administration officials warned that a nuclear Iran not only would raise the risk of a regional conflict, higher oil prices and even interrupted supplies, it could also trigger a surge in nuclear proliferation.” (Emphasis added.)
In other words: we will make sure oil supplies to you the Chinese are interrupted - -bombed, that is. We will, too, make sure that Japan and others will go nuclear or, at the very least, we will ease them along that path.
LOSING PATIENCE
The Israel-Anchored Reluctant Ones are themselves under the gun. They want to stay in Plantation Iraq so badly. And they think they can - - in a dependent (on them) Plantation where no one (including Iranian proxies) is blowing up the oil installations our corporations construct. Israel, if it strikes Iran, will have the latter retaliate against us in Iraq at a time when we’re the least ready for a like confrontation. In the mind of the Reluctant Ones, now that the Arab Sunnis have been subdued and marginalized - -and their feistiness towards Israel defused- -Plantation Iraq is a precious piece of real estate. If only we can secure the Kurds while protecting our Maliki government - - and strengthen the alliance between the two. If only we’re given more time to solidify our hold on the security services and armed forces and are able to rely on them and use them. If only… The list goes on-and-on.
We would open up to Iran to secure our presence in Plantation Iraq. That would be the logical thing to do - - to balance Iranian power while opening up to it. But the Israelis and their people wouldn’t hear of it. Or, likely, we’re using that as an excuse. At any rate, no sooner did we get rid of their Diaspora’s Right Wing that we have gotten stuck with the Diaspora’s Left Wing. This has forced us to tow the same inane (and harmful) course forged by the Harmful Idiots: Choose confrontation with Iran instead of an understanding, a protocol of sorts. So now the Iranians (It’s already happened; I’m just making the point) will see our fondness for Plantation Iraq not so much as fondness for control of oil - - which it is and with which the Iranians likely can live - -but as a scheme to await the propitious time to war with the Islamic Republic—from Iraq - - and/or change its government. In other words: Iraq as a hostile American base, as part of a scheme to encircle the Islamic Republic and go for the kill when the time proves right. Nothing has changed.
In the meantime, the Reluctant Ones seem to be losing patience waiting for China to spend away her $2 trillion in reserves. When it does, their thinking likely goes, it’ll become more malleable and be easily forced to join in severe sanctions against Iran. But the Reluctant Ones can’t wait that long. So they’ve resorted to silly-and-empty (but likely miscalculated, and therefore dangerous) threats.
The normal course would be to wait. Patience is a virtue, right? We’re told by the experts that China needs to grow at 8-9% - - I’m going on memory - - to avoid domestic turmoil. So we have to wait it out until its growth dips to 7%. Then we can celebrate - - not we, really, but the Israeli-American Foreign Policy Establishment. We the citizens want a long-term plan to keep our money at home or force the Chinese to have an equal and mutually-work-inducing exchange - -not of Treasury notes, but by purchasing tangible products that our people produce, not just design. We don’t want seller-financing. But that’s beyond the capacity (or even interest) of the foreign policy Reluctant Ones. Anchoring foreign policy on Israel therefore is easier and truer to their conviction. Besides, and sadly for us, unless we have a plan other than engineering - - either purposefully or through intentional laissez-faire - - another Great Recession (the business cycle recession seems to be passé since factories have moved to Asia), we should expect a repeat of capital accumulation by the Chinese government soon after they spend the last penny of their $2 trillion in reserves or as soon as our “recovery” is under way.
Are the Reluctant Ones scratching away at the litter box? You bet. The hilarious thing is that the article in the Post is written as if to portray great success by the geniuses of the Israeli-American foreign policy establishment. The article reflects their bragging. They like them at the Post. They had liked the Jewish right and the Christian Right before them and they had hoorayed the crushing of the independence of their nemesis: the Arab Sunnis. (They really made them eat shit.) Read the article carefully and the only success you will find is in the headline. The joke is on us. The Chinese know that Hezbollah (even after corruption had penetrated it) will make Israel pay too-dear-a-price for attacking Iran. Iran knows that and should be expected to be doing its utmost to continue its training and arming of that party. China knows that, too, and knows that Syria will be needed as the strategic depth for Hezbollah. China would need an insurance policy against being driven out altogether from the region’s oil; that if the Reluctant Ones win out in Iran, they might just find ways for their people to cancel China’s contracts both in Iran and in Iraq. Knowing all of that, wouldn’t you expect a secret response to the bullying and the bragging about it on the front page of the Washington Post- - such as Chinese intelligence passing money and weapons and intelligence to Hezbollah - - and to Syria? It seems to me that the more the Reluctant Ones plow the same Israel-anchored course, the more they dig us deeper into trouble, the more we look like harmful morons, this time even more desperate because we’re bankrupt, the more we run the chance of being dislodged from the region.
Or, likely, the more things will return to the way they were: all Great Powers sharing in the loot that is the oil-and-gas of that region, our huge expenditures and the misery we brought onto the people of the region having resulted in nothing that is of benefit to us.
THE ISRAELI WING OF THE ISRAELI-AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY ESTABLISHMENT HAS OPTED TO BULLY CHINA SO AS TO DISCIPLINE IT
The threat the NSC carried to the Chinese, which it bragged about on the front page of the Washington Post, to be understood, has to be considered along with yet another article the Post had published earlier.
On 11/13/09, the venerable Post had carried yet another article, also front page. That article showed, if anything, that Israel’s strategic boys get used by (and use) the Israeli-American national security establishment to do such things as, say, embarrass China in order to coax it. You see, it’s part of their genius scheme: We embarrass China before the U.S. Congress, which will threaten protective trade, and they will know their place and help us stay in Iraq and re-claim Iran. That part of it might just be effective. Right? Will it mean that China would let go of Iran as market and source of oil, and support it? Unlikely. The more likely response would be to have two policies, one secret and one open. (You guess which is which.) But if things slide away uncontrollably, with a history of miscalculation by Israel’s Boys, and Congress gets in on the act, a crisis in U.S.-Sino relations might just blossom into an extended cold war. Is this good for us? Is that what they’re after? It could be.
The November 13 Post article? Oh yes, it was about an admission by Abdul Qadeer Khan about China’s help to Pakistan in the latter’s development of nuclear weapons.
Importantly, the article was based on information obtained by the Post from a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Lest I sound really out-of-it and not as cunning an analyst as I’d like to be: Outfits such as the Institute likely are part-and-parcel of the idiots’ national security establishment, where Israel-adoring idiots on both sides - - the Institute’s and government’s, one-and-the-same, really - - go on scratching away at the plastic litter box. I have this image of them sitting in a “think tank” and dreaming up sophomoric schemes to return Israel to the top, lording over the Arab nation and the Islamic World and mediating the siphoning-off of the region’s oil.
CRYING UNCLE: CARRYING OUT AN EMPTY THREAT
Who will cry uncle first: The United States or China?
The way economic woes express themselves here in our United States is through such phenomena as increased suicides, employees (and family members!) going postal, and a spike in crime. What will that expression be in China: Tiananmen Squares? Religious-Ethnic revolts? I don’t think either government would relinquish its foreign policy interests (and its insurance policies -- Israel-and-its-Diaspora as the bully for the U.S. and Iran as the source of oil for China) as it handles these revolts. China should use its armed forces to quell any rebellion and the United States its jails and psychotropic medication.
If Israel strikes at Iran, we will be there (in Iraq) to witness it. I’d be a fool not to expect the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRG) to have evolved intricate and comprehensive plans to make us pay a price in Iraq. Accordingly, we’d be fools to let it happen. And we have the means to dispel the Israelis. Threatening an Israeli strike therefore is scratching away at the litter box. After all, we’d be the ones paying the higher price. As I mentioned earlier, Israel would have to factor in Hezbollah’s retaliation. Now that its people have come out and bullied China (on behalf of the White House) so clearly, Israel should too factor in that Chinese secret support for Syria and Hezbollah should increase.
Bu, for the sake of argument, let us consider that Israel would strike anyway and we do bomb Iran and interrupt oil supplies to China. It’ll be everyone - - not just the Chinese - - who will pay the price. Can our Great Recession withstand oil prices at $200 per barrel? At $300? Will there be a rush back to Treasury notes which would raise the value of the dollar yet again and defeat the stratagem to force its devaluation - - in other words, the Israel boys defeating the stratagem of the Bank Racket - - Treasury’s and the Fed’s?
Forget this thing about Iran being a threat to Israel’s existence. It’s utter nonsense. Iran isn’t a threat to Israel’s existence. Iran is a powerful competitor to Israel, a superb rival. This is particularly true because the Muslim public sees in Iran its revenge against the iron-clad alliance of the Israelis and the Americans, an alliance that has dismantled a Muslim country (Iraq), is sowing discord - -subjectively or not - - among Muslims (Sunnis v. Shias v. Kurdish Sunnis v. various types of Muslims in Pakistan and Afghanistan), and has waged wars in Muslim lands and divided up the Muslims. That’s the perception, anyway. (Please don’t start another State Department Program to deal with this. It’d be painful. Please don’t!) But Iran hardly is a threat to Israel’s existence. It’s damn too far for that. And Israel can compete effectively with Iran by returning to the June 4, 1967 borders and by ceasing to weaken any Palestinian leadership that is willing to work with it. Not to mention that Israel likely has a second-strike capability (on German-made submarines) that would annihilate Iran off the face of the earth should the IRG ever dare dispatch a nuclear weapon against Israel.
Plainly put: Israel is jealous of Iran because of all of the above and because the Iranian elite - - and that Arab elite associated with it, e.g., Hezbollah - - are technology-savvy, in addition to being masters at exploiting the Street.
Stuck in this Israel mold so integral to the Israeli-American national security establishment, we have one of this establishment’s Israel-minded members bully China: We go down in Iraq, because “existential” Israel attacks Iran (totally a fiction unless allowed by the Reluctant Ones - - and that would be when the time is propitious for us for war on Iran) and we shall take you down with us by interrupting (bombing) your supply of oil.
BY WAY OF CONCLUSION
Ross and his Israel-anchored Reluctant Ones, unable to shed the Israel-as-essential-to-U.S.-foreign-policy paradigm, should nonetheless refrain from bullying a Great Power, especially that the threat they used is either an empty one or ruinous to all - - and therefore an empty one. I would add that they should, too, refrain from bragging about nothing and embarrassing China on the front page of the Post. (They’d do us all a favor if they’d lift weights instead, or secure themselves muscled dogs as pets.) They’ve already ghettoized us vis-à-vis the entire Muslim World. (That's getting really bad - - consider the Minaret issue in Switzerland.) Now they want us to burn along with the Chinese so that Israel can lord supreme in the Muslim World (it won't happen, Iran-or-no-Iran) and we can remain in a forever precarious-and-dangerous Iraq awaiting the time when we can either effect regime change in Iran or attack it.
posted by Tony Khater @ 9:51 AM
