A Nod To The Gods

This would answer a few questions. It’s all conjecture at this point but would certainly clear up a few things.

They DO have a strategy, but they prefer to appear indecisive.  That’s because the strategy would likely provoke even greater criticism than the false confession of endless dithering.

The actual strategy is detente first, and then a full alliance with Iran throughout the Middle East and North Africa.  It has been on display since before the beginning of the Obama administration.  During his first presidential campaign in 2008, Mr. Obama used a secret back channel to Tehran to assure the mullahs that he was a friend of the Islamic Republic, and that they would be very happy with his policies.  The secret channel was Ambassador William G. Miller, who served in Iran during the shah’s rule, as chief of staff for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and as ambassador to Ukraine.  Ambassador Miller has confirmed to me his conversations with Iranian leaders during the 2008 campaign.

Ever since, President Obama’s quest for an alliance with Iran has been conducted through at least four channels:  Iraq, Switzerland (the official U.S. representative to Tehran), Oman and a variety of American intermediaries, the most notable of whom is probably Valerie Jarrett, his closest adviser.  In recent months, Middle Eastern leaders reported personal visits from Ms. Jarrett, who briefed them on her efforts to manage the Iranian relationship.  This was confirmed to me by a former high-ranking American official who says he was so informed by several Middle Eastern leaders. keep reading

If we look at the current crisis through an Iranian lens, our apparent indecisiveness is easier to understand, for it systematically favors Iran’s interests. Tehran’s closest ally is Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. If Assad were to be overthrown by opposition forces hostile to Iran, it would be a devastating blow to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who has committed tens of thousands of fighters (from Hezbollah, the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij) to shore up the Damascus regime. Everything Iran does in the region revolves around the necessity of preserving Assad’s tyranny.

It is even more unlikely that Mr. Obama and his spokespeople will confess to actually having a strategy, because of the political firestorm that would result. Better to be thought a fool than to remove all doubt, after all.

The nations of the world have become unstable, politically, militarily and economically. For one, the European Union and its Euro may dissolve for the oldest of reasons: a squabble over money. Like us, they can say debt is credit right up until the rent’s due, then they discover the insolvent can prop up the bankrupt only until somebody has to give something of value to get something of value. It’s then they understand how poor they’ve been all along, that they don’t actually have much that anybody else wants.

Which conservatives have been bitching about all along, not the GOP, I mean conservatives who know what the debt is doing to the nation, not some left of center RINO enlarging his retirement portfolio at the expense of the taxpayer.

In the US flash crash  of May 2010, bogus trading slipped the leash and a trillion dollars of notional market value vanished in minutes, and in the doing setting a new standard for downward volatility. They liked to call it “avoided transition”, a fancy way of saying no one trusted the other guy’s bookkeeping once the cosigner went missing. When bogus trades on bogus data can pump up the market for years, then slip utterly out of control in about the time of a commercial break, when the FAILURE IS NOW PERMITTED sign lit up but briefly, and it’s still long enough for the market to flash-crash, it suggests our black swan will be the truth, the simple truth. Said differently—reality.

And we all know, reality can be a bitch.

What will be our signature event? Like Rome, the aqueducts still stand but the era that built them is gone. Which suggests one event. Nations, like people, go broke secretly, then publicly and to all appearances, instantly. And we’ve been broke for a very long time. The decisive, irretrievable losses are like a corpse hidden in the ceiling, not yet acknowledged but more evident with every passing day. Perhaps our black swan will be the sheer speed of the closing act,

When the lights go out, it could be out for a very, very long time.

Panic is the rational response. Game theory favors the nimble, the first one to panic and run out the door wins. Sure he triggers a surge to the exits, but he still wins. Everybody else loses something, or a lot, or everything . This is not esoteric knowledge. Expatriate applications are running ahead  of even last year’s record. Firearms and ammunition, grain and freeze-dried food, canning supplies, tactical gear and water purifying gadgets have been selling briskly for years now. Then there are the suburban survival gardens and chicken herds and on and on. Whatever else they’re doing, everyone seems to have their coat in one hand, their car keys in the other, and a bugout bag next to the door.

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I’ve been calling American Liberalism a cult for a long time. I get some grief for it from normal people, because they think I’m engaging in name calling. There’s some truth to it. The word cult has some baggage. We typically think of cults having a leader, a person who is worshiped. That leader is more than a little nuts and eventually leads his followers to a Jonestown like end. Of course, this the point at which right thinking people begin to see I’m probably right about these people. The messianic nature of American Liberalism is not always obvious, but it’s right there if look hard at the Left.

This describes the left in a tidy nutshell, (no pun intended), they have their precious in Obama and they have his far left bat shit crazy useful idiots praising him when it is plain as day the guy is a complete and total failure as President Of The United States.

They view his progressive policies as victories for the cult. Gay rights, amnesty, nationalized healthcare, and the massive welfare state all have been the language of the left. So Obama is worshiped and he is more than a little nuts, so enjoy the ride to Jamestown as Obama poisons the kool aide for everyone.

Outside of a few urban centers in the Middle East where the elites start the revolutions that end up stringing them from the gallows, life is cheap and worthless. Men kill their wives and daughters over petty suspicions. Clans murder each other in vicious brawls. Wedding celebrations begin with firing guns into the air and end with bodies on the ground.

Everything is worth more than people. A camel has value. A pickup truck has value. A smartphone has value. All these things are hard to make.

People are easy to make.

 Could be describing Chicago sans the camel.

It’s best to understand that we are not dealing with a moral code that looks anything like our own. The nastier qualities of human nature, deceit, violence and greed, are practically virtues. Especially if they are directed at the right targets.

There’s a reason that Islam was born here. There’s a reason that it still thrives here largely in its unaltered form. There is no civilization where the black flags fly. keep reading