History Re-Written To Suit

In his latest series of missives, B. Raman has been chronicling the ongoing chaos in Pakistan. There are many details to digest - different groups; different motives - but only one overarching emotion: a foreign presence in the Middle and Near East. Even those who are said to be friendly to us are at best playing both sides. Any tribal engendered brutality can ultimately be laid at the feet of the Americans whose support of Israel is seen as an unacceptable intrusion in the region.

If America were to reduce its influence, what would happen? It is doubtful that sentiments would change overnight. Obama’s hard line on Israel is likely to impress no one. They would not understand the nuance that would dictate the framing of the argument. The only expedient solution for the U.S. is to advance a one-state template: not Israel, but Palestine. Anything less only prolongs the agony.

Our new administration in Washington appears to have already decided. Israel is beginning to realize that she has been left utterly alone now to face the final assault. Israel too is divided. She will have to decide whether to go down swinging or march obediently into the hell's rings of certain defeat, leaving God to sort out the rest.

It will soon become clear (if it hasn’t already) that America is quite willing to do whatever it takes to endear itself to Israel’s enemies. Will the turmoil in the region cease? Not likely. It will remain, as it has for centuries: a kettle of warring tribes.

The damage will be to America. How will America handle the stain of genocide? It is sure to leave a festering wound – one that will never heal. The apologies will be endless and sincere – not like the tepid, perfidious and relatively harmless apologies of today.

Yesterday, I saw Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto”. I was channel-surfing and this one caught my attention. I didn’t know what it was until the first commercial break. And then it dawned on me. This was Mel’s vision of America’s future. The film is said to begin with an epigraph from Will Durant: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." No wonder the libs screamed like stuck pigs when the film was first released. Gibson had scored a direct hit on the sensitive underbelly of history re-written to suit.