U.N. Pretzel & Media Twist

by Nidra Poller (September 11, 2013)

If Assad did use chemical weapons, it means he is dangerously irrational and there is no way of knowing what he will do next. How should we know? Those one-world illusions flourishing inside and around the U.N. undermine the ability to make judgments about human behavior. We are allied with everyone and no one, and the only foresight offered is the kind you get after the fact. We should have done something early on, when the sort of people we get along with stood up to the ruthless Alawite dictator (that everyone got along with until recently). All this nastiness could have been avoided. Well, it could have been even more avoided if we had done something in 2009 in Iran. And then again, maybe not.

[update September 11]

Either the free world has to come down from its high horses or individual nations must recover their sovereignty. It is not possible to act on a moral imperative within an amoral framework, in the absence of leadership, strategy, and comprehension of the nature of the Islamic paroxysm that is spinning out one acute crisis after another. We cannot take sides in this maelstrom because no one is on our side, no one respects our values or, if there is a small minority that does, it cannot defend itself and we cannot defend it against the rage and destruction that is exploding for reasons that have nothing to do with us.

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