Winds of Change: Election Lessons & Developments
The November 07 American mid-term elections have come and gone with predictable results. Pundits from CNN to FOX were unanimous in stating that Republican losses in Congress resulted from “the War in Iraq.” Not only are they totally wrong but, as usual, they have framed the issue in a way that defeats thought, understanding and analysis. That is their job and that is how they keep their jobs.
After examining the disinformation and facts we will briefly consider two interesting new developments.
There is NO war in Iraq (not waged by America, anyway) no more than there is a genuine nation called “Iraq.” Those are two major mystifications that enchain thought and people. Once the American executive branch, the interlocking NSC and State Departments pulled the Marine Division out of Mesopotamia late in April 2003 it became clear Americans were facing another social work – police action later dubbed, “operation freedom and democracy in Iraq.” Like Korea but worse, this was meant to fail (given the environs, it had to fail), to embitter and dishearten Americans, and it did; and to lead to further global crises: and it has. The internationalists want Americans to lay down their nation’s capabilities and turn everything over to the UN and multilateral deal-making with the EU, Russia and Islamic states. The “War on Terror” is meant to be and already has become an endless war of attrition much like that to which internationalists have doomed the Jews of Israel. It is the road map to a regionalized world state…
There is no plan for victory, no real war on terror, only increasing terror and “security measures.” The Republican base knows this and punished their representatives for it and for other betrayals as well.
Before listing those betrayals it’s worth repeating that America is not making war in Iraq. “Iraq” is a postmodern assemblage of disparate parts with an underlying culture, Islam, whose diverse, competing elements all are inimical to constitutional democracy. Not only are Shiites fighting Sunnis but there is recent evidence that al Qaeda is assisting the Iran-backed Shiites against the Sunni jihadists. There will be no peace in Mesopotamia.
Some of the many ways that Republicans, especially in the administration betrayed their supporters include: failure to control and defend America’s southern borders from the influx of millions of illegal aliens including drug traffickers, jihadists, pimps, convicted violent criminals and even elements of the Mexican army. Since 1965 America has had very liberal immigration allowances for Hispanics but this is not enough for those who want to fracture the nation. Rather than deploy the National Guard of the respective states the Bush administration aligned itself with various amnesty plans for large numbers of illegal immigrants. It presented no serious plan for ridding America of Islamic infiltration. The “wall” it proposes to build is a bitter reflection of the one it has ordered Israel to build and will hinder mainly American forces.
The administration sought to turn over most of America’s major ports to a company run by the Gulf State of Dubai and Britain; a brother of the President and William J. Clinton both lobby, formally or informally for Dubai. This recalled the attempt by the Clinton administration to give China control of the old naval base and port at Long Beach, California stretching inland to a large duty free zone, a virtual Chinese colony.
Republicans did not vote for Clinton policies but that is what they mostly got from the current administration.
The GOP base is soberly and strongly pro-Israel. But the Bush Administration centered its foreign policy on creating a “Palestinian” state in the heartland of Israel and expelling its Jewish residents. It pushed relentlessly for Israel to minimize its response to jihadist attacks (as America does in Mesopotamia) even though Hamas, the “Palestinian Authority” and affiliated groups state explicitly that they will destroy and replace Israel. And the Administration has watched, talked and threatened emptily while Iran pronounces its genocidal intentions toward the Jews but its plan to “sit on the throne of America.” It has done little or nothing with the evidence of Iran President Ahmadinejad’s role in taking Americans hostage in Iran (1979-80) or in other state-sponsored murders (see weblog of Daniel Pipes on reports in Russian and Austrian media).
The result of the Administration’s softness: Fatah, Iran, Hamas and other groups endorsed the Democrats and a few days later declared jihad on America.
Republicans did not vote for this.
The Bush administration failed to stem the flood of judicial activism that has destroyed American education, civil society and Judeo-Christian norms; that has already created a multi-cultural Balkans where the Constitutional Republic of America was. A strong push by the President would have produced an 8 for 8 sweep of anti-same sex union ballot initiatives and rallied Republican ranks, but the President was content to remain leashed and the initiative in Arizona failed by a whisker.
The administration did little to contain costs and shrink the Federal behemoth, an increasingly tyrannical and perennial bureaucratic regime. The resistance to “eminent domain” and fiscal extractions came mainly from grass roots Americans who rightly felt themselves abandoned by Washington.
The Republican base watched in astonishment as the administration failed to make the strong case it could have against the reflexively hostile internationalist media. The only way America can keep from sinking beneath this animus is with Ronald Reagan-type leadership and encouragement. Almost none of that was forthcoming.
Americans watched in dismay as the cover-ups and bizarre “security” measures of the Clinton years were largely maintained. It was the better kinds of Americans in the Administration (Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton) and Congress (Rick Santorum) who took the heat and the fall for failures at the top.
The Republicans can win big in 2008 and any year if they run as the patriotic, traditional values, Constitutional alternative to the multi-cultural internationalists on the left.
* Potentially the most important positive development of the election season was the broadcast by FOX news on the evening of Sunday November 5 of Obsession the documentary by Wayne Kopping et al about the inculcation of jihad, — murderous world conquest and slaughter of non-muslims — by clerics and schools throughout the Islamic world. Drawing on the in-depth research of groups like Palestine Media Watch and Middle East Media Research Institute the DVD reveals the ugly truth most of our politicians do their worst to obscure.
Given that FOX news would not even put on camera Nazi-style anti-Jewish cartoons in Arab media when Sean Hannity held them up a year ago, this in-depth exposure of Islam’s “blame-America-for-everything” pathology could push political discussions to sobriety and planning for victory. It even is possible that the rise of Avigdor Lieberman (see “the Void and the Villain”) to the positioin of “Minister for Strategic Affairs” in Israel is part of a decision to stifle Shiite apocalyptics. Time will tell. At the moment, as Nonie Darwish comments, “we are strangling ourselves with our political correctness.” PC is the Democrats’ weapon of mind-fog and it seems to have suffocated the administration. So we will see if anything can dispel the mists…