The current Obama approach to Syria includes dispatching six high-level State Department delegations, announcing that our ambassador will return to Damascus, rescinding banned shipment of aircraft parts, and deals worth several billion dollars. Secretary of State Clinton purred over this “slight opening” with Syria and expressed hope that it would lead Syria to curb support for Iran as well as Hezb’allah and Hamas.
Syrian President Bashir Assad, responding instantly following departure of the U. S. Under-Secretary of State from Damascus, invited the Iranian president to his capital. The Assad-Ahmadinjead press conference can be described most tactfully as a roast of the Obama administration. The two presidents announced removal of travel visas, meaning that Iranian terrorists are free to travel to the borders of Europe and Israel. Assad, not ordinarily known for humor, said of U.S. hopes of separating Syria from Iran that “[w]e must have understood Clinton wrong because of bad translation.” The Iranian president reliably played straight man: “The Americans are forced to leave the region, leaving their reputation, image, and power behind in order to escape. The U.S. has no influence to stop expansion of Iran-Syria, Syria-Turkey, and Iran-Turkey ties. God willing, Iraq too will join this circle.”
Okay, kids, it’s story time. There was once a little boy who was always picked on by bullies. One day, he decided he’d had enough, so he started going to the gym and working out. The bullies laughed at first, but then they started to notice that when they tried to pick on him, he hit back, and it was starting to hurt. So, finally, they decided to bully someone else.
Once safe, the little boy was listening to a psychiatrist who told him he was doing nothing but contributing to world anger by hitting back; that he would be much better off to not hit back. That defensive violence is the same as offensive violence. “Didn’t Jesus say someplace to love your enemies,” the psychiatrist asked? “Doesn’t that mean to promote social justice?” So the little boy decided he was, after all, doing wrong.
He stopped going to the gym. He spent his money on speech lessons instead, so he could speak quite eloquently and forcefully.
The next time the bullies came around he said, “hey, guys, you’re contributing to world anger with all this bullying, you’re making the world warmer, destroying the environment, and mocking social justice, so stop it.” Then he proceeded to give them a long, eloquent speech about social justice.
The bullies laughed. And beat him up. Worldviews have consequences.
Socialism is one thing; Dhimitude is another.
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