Posted on 08/29/2014 7:16:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
After World War I the third rate minds who brought us the conflict to begin with came up with another stupid idea: They decided to divide up former German, Austrian and Turkish empires into separate countries, like Czechoslovakia, and create makeshifts, like the Danzig Corridor. Germany lost territory to Poland to create a land corridor to Danzig that gave Poland access to the sea.Never mind that it cleaved a country in two.
It was these territorial wedges-- wedges that diced up ethnicity-- that Hitler used to gain legitimacy in the eyes of Germans. By cutting up countries in defiance of ethnicity, geography and often common sense, war and reasons for war dominated the interregnum between the two great wars, making mad men sometimes seem reasonable.
Today we are witness similar maladies of the mind—along with maladies of geography, ideology and religion—in places like Ukraine, Crimea, Georgia, Syria, Iraq, Jordon, Saudi Arabia, Mali, Sudan, Libya and more. There is now a great swath rent from the fabric of the world, drenched in red, with no promise to be patched up soon. Divided by ethnic, religious, ideological and national interests, the bloodletting once started in these lands is hard to staunch.
ISIS or ISIL or IS – I prefer the BLS term “terror-employed persons”—are gobbling up geography in the land between the two great rivers without regard to boundary lines on maps. In Ukraine and Crimea, Russian soldiers in civilian dress are intervening, crossing international borders to give support to the creation of their own corridor to the sea.
“Russia is not supporting the break-up of Ukraine,” reports our intelligence correspondent at NightWatch. “Foreign Minister Lavrov repeated the Russian position that The Russian leaders do not want a divided Ukraine. They appear to want a federal Ukraine that includes a secure over land route from Rostov to Crimea.”
Yeah, that worked out great for Poland.
And that’s an important distinction.
Because Obama’s hands-off policy in these conflicts is an outgrowth of his hatred for the maps created by the empires he so loathes, most especially the British Empire, which drew the lines on many of today’s maps after World War I. To a large extent Obama sees the conflicts going on now as a part of an historical redress of grievances amongst Muslims, and, to his logical, fanatical mind, this same courtesy ought to be extended to other countries with similar grievances.
Obama isn’t just working to help Muslims, in other words, he’s working to overturn centuries of cartography created by White, mostly European males who mapped out the realities that Syrians, Iraqis and Ukrainians share today, along with one hundred million others.
And in this redress, there is no room for rights and wrongs, but only simply brute self-determination, backed by force. Obama’s version of nation-building doesn’t include elections, and purple stained fingers, but rather a benign neglect, a Darwinian respect for survival of the strongest.
The only votes that count in this scenario are typically dipped in red, blood red.
I say all this because a president who seems to lack the will to protect U.S. interests puzzles some. It’s not the will that’s lacking but the interest. Obama’s only interested in red lines drawn on maps, not as a mark of U.S. resolution, but as a mark of U.S. permissiveness.
“Yes,” he seems to be saying, “invade Ukraine, take Takrit.”
That, or something very near it, is as close as we’ve come to foreign policy these days.
And the red lines thus will continue to be drawn in blood, from Ferguson, Missouri to Fallujah, Iraq until someone less fanatical takes the helm.
Good points.
But Obama is immune: NOTHING that he does as a black, internationalist abortion-loving democrat is going to turn his minions in his ABCNNBCBS press corpse against him or his policies.
(The administration’s policies = Obama’s policies. No, “he” doesn’t create them, but they are his policies. “HE” is above all of that messy “policies” thing.)
This bastard should be allowed to retire in luxury, he needs to be wearing an orange jump suit.
Chairman Trey Gowdy understands that his drip - Drip - - DRIP investigation style of the entire 2012 Benghazi Massacre is a very effective tool against the sound-bite style of “not a smidgen of corruption,” Democrat Political Machine of Reid, Pelosi and Obama.
Gowdy’s strategy may well prove to be the best documentation yet of why Democrats are unsuited to be in leadership positions in the US Federal Government.
After all, the same Democrats who were responsible for their decisions, or lack thereof, with respect to Benghazi also have decision ties to the NSA, IRS, and EPA Democrat policy decisions.
Thus, Chairman Gowdy can potentially document the vast Democrat connections that tie together what has made the Obama Administration the most destructive force so popular with the Democrat Politicians in the US Senate and House of Representatives since January, 2009.
Chairman Gowdy is thus putting himself in position to be the deciding Republican Politician as to the future defeat of Democrats in the 2016 National Election.
While other Republican Politicians and pundits wring their hands in fear of what the Media will say about them, and fretfully hope to win short term battles by narrowly gaining control of the US Senate, Trey Gowdy seems to be more interested in winning the WAR against the entire ruling Democrat Political Machine.
The Republicans may squeak by with a narrow 2014 Election victory, but 2016 could well be the year that the Democrat Party receives its much deserved, landslide defeat.
Because Obama’s hands-off policy in these conflicts is an outgrowth of his hatred for the maps created by the empires he so loathes, most especially the British Empire, which drew the lines on many of today’s maps after World War I... Obama isn’t just working to help Muslims, in other words, he’s working to overturn centuries of cartography created by White, mostly European males who mapped out the realities that Syrians, Iraqis and Ukrainians share today, along with one hundred million others.That explains why, prior to the period of European colonial rule, the rest of the world never had a war or even a dispute about boundaries and territory.
It was these territorial wedges— wedges that diced up ethnicity”
Apparently, dude has no clue about the history of that area.
Don’t you mean he shouldn’t be allowed to retire in luxury?
I like the thrust of the article except for the part about Obama and what he thinks. It gives him far too much credit.
The truth about Obama is not that he disdains the work of old white guys so much as that he really can’t do any thing about it. The best he can do is make meaningless speeches because that is in reality all he can do.
The article seems to equate the changes in process within the fertile crescent with changes in the Ukraine. There is change, but the original forces setting up the now destroyed status quo are not remotely similar
Neither of the historical events in process has an American component meaning Obama is totally without means of involvement
He should absolutely NOT.
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