Israeli official brands
emerging Iran deal as ‘incomprehensibly’ bad, reads one report. Israeli TV: Iran
deal, leaving 6,100 centrifuges spinning, to be signed by Tuesday, says another
Obama is acting like the Germanwings co-pilot. By
appeasing Iran Obama is driving the world into a fatal descent towards nuclear
war. Congress is knocking on the cockpit door, but to no avail. Congress should
break down the cockpit door while there is still time.
Germanwings will change the cockpit rules i.e. they will include a
requirement that, when one of the pilots exits the cockpit for any reason,
another qualified crew member must lock the door and remain on the flight deck
until the pilot returns to his or her station.
But the
American political system of checks and balances is already in place, and yet
this is
still happening. How come?
Matthew Kroenig,in his book At
Time to Attack,writes:
"As Iran's nuclear
capabilities grow over time, it is even possible that nuclear war with Iran
could threaten the very existence of the United States. While the risk of
nuclear war on every given day is low, it is not zero. And that risk needs to
be aggregated day after day, week after week, year after year, decade after
decade as the countries go through various political conflicts of interest,
crises and possibly even wars. Given enough time, there is a real risk that
something could go terribly wrong.".
How is it
that so many people, not only Americans, but the other 5 negotiators are
complacent, unaware of the danger unfolding before our eyes? After all, as Kroenig
writes, a nuclear Iran would be an existential threat for the US as well as for
Europe.
The answer,
I think, is just ignorance. Profound ignorance of how Muslims think and what
they believe in. Although I have read extensively on Islam, Chapter 4 of Ayaan
Hirsi Ali’s new book Heretic
was educational –
Those who love
death - Islam’s Fatal Focus on the Afterlife.
“Americans are
raised to believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Muslims such
as the Chicago Three, by contrast, are educated to venerate death over life –
to value the promise of eternal life more highly than actual life here on
earth. They see their primary purpose in this life as preparing for death: in
the words of the Chicago teenager, “what we did to prepare for our death is
what will matter”. Death is the goal, the event that matters because it leads
to the prize of eternal life”
Many Muslims believe
this with a fervor that is hard for modernized Westerners to comprehend.
And all this without the Shi’a
Twelver eschatology which adds an additional layer of ignorance to our already clueless
Islam ignoramuses of the P5 + 1
We are in serious trouble. I am quite sure that Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic will have a profound effect on the western public in the months to come .
Unfortunately, it will not impact the coming few days which will live in
infamy.
Update, Mach 30 , 2015
Cartoon in the printed edition of Israel Hayom for 03/30/2015
Written on the Boeing 747 / Air Force One - US foreign policy
The stork: I think there is only one pilot in the cockpit
