Posted on 11/07/2023 6:49:00 AM PST by bitt
In 1953, the Swiss novelist Max Frisch published a play called The Arsonists. It's a pitch dark comedy about a small town ravaged by a group of maniacs disguised as traveling salesmen, who sweet-talk their way into people's homes and then set them on fire. Its protagonist is a dolt called Biedermann—bieder being German for honest, respectable, and upright. He's aware of the danger, and yet, when the arsonists knock, he lets them in. The tragedy, Frisch argues, is that he almost has no other choice: The arsonists are such smooth talkers that it's easy, when listening to them, to ignore the large drums of kerosene and the matches they're holding in their hands.
I thought of The Arsonists this week when I heard snippets of a podcast interview featuring former president Barack Obama on the Middle East. "Nobody's hands are clean," Obama said. "All of us are complicit."
Nah, man. Not all of us are complicit. It's just you.
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It's you, because you're the one who gave that stentorian speech about red lines in Syria and then sat by and did nothing as those red lines were crossed and Assad continued to slaughter his own people, allowing the Iranians and the Russians to creep in and fill the vacuum left by your devastating lack of leadership.
It's you, because you're the one who came up with the idea of empowering Iran, the world's premiere exporter of terrorism, Holocaust denial, and chaos, all the while telling the American people you were merely trying to stop Teheran from getting a nuclear bomb. Billions of dollars and thousands of dead later, we can all see how well this idea—which you, with the eloquence only a professor could muster, called "regional integration"—is working.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
NEWSWEEK!
Obama, who loves Muslims so much, dropped over 28,000 bombs on 7 different Muslim countries.
BTTT
Wow........Newsweek dissing Obama......shocker.
Obama was always on the wrong side
Bump
Great piece by Liel Leibovitz. Loved it. Planning to share as soon as I finish this post.
Obama seems never to have given a speech without saying ‘I’ or ‘me’ or ‘my’ in almost every sentence, that is until now. Now it’s’we’.
I was in the cast of a production of that play in college, though it was called The Firebugs (maybe The Arsonists is a direct translation of the German original as opposed to the title it was published under in the U.S.)
It’s a very apt metaphor for the Obama/Biden approach to foreign policy.
Wow....Broken Clock Newsweak??
Thx for the ping.
Once again, this immature half-wit thinks that if he can spread the guilt around thin enough... the guilt AND the blame will diminish for HIM!
What a jerk!
America’s first mau mau president.
Newsweek has also stopped calling mentally disturbed men “she” and mentally disturbed women “he.”
Obunghole does not speak for me. The shear arrogance and hypocrisy.
He hasn’t matured yet. Still In those halcyon days of pot and homo activities. He’s still trying to figure out how the daughters got here.
Even in his funk he knows what happened to his chef who tired of playing with little Barry.
Obama, the person who knows how too lie. He is very evil.
So does this mean a man in a dress wont make the Newsweek cover?
bkmk
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