T. Belman. In hindsight we see that attacking Afghanistan and Iraq in the wake of 9-11 gained the US nothing and cost it trillions. I always ask everyone, what should it have done in response?
Wurmser is an expert on Middle East affairs. He served as senior member of the Bush administration’s National Security Council.
“This administration thinks that the actual ability to restrain Iran isn’t as important as the political gain from having done what Trump couldn’t do or didn’t do,” says Wurmser.
The risks for Israel
Glick and Wurmser go on to talk about how Israel’s security brass is beginning to discuss the necessity of changing Israel’s doctrine for contending with Iran. The notion being bandied about is that Israel must change its strategic goal vis-à-vis Iran’s nuclear weapons program from prevention to deterrence and containment.
Wurmser thus notes that for 25 years, Israel has pledged to block Iran from developing nuclear weapons. A shift in policy now, he argues, would be catastrophic for Israel’s regional and global standing. It will invite aggression at every turn, and worse.
“If Iran develops a nuclear weapon, it changes the fundamental concept of the region,” he says. “Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the others will see Israel as weakened. This can affect the Abraham Accords and peace. It can change the entire climate of the region.”
Wurmser and Glick then discuss what Israel must do to ensure that it does not become a scapegoat, that the world does not blame the Jewish State for Iran’s future threats against Europe.
The two also speak about how the Biden administration will likely behave in the future, as Iran’s status as a nuclear power is acknowledged.
The collective amnesia about September 11
In closing, Glick shares her reflections on the 21st anniversary of September 11, discussing the reasons why the event has largely disappeared from public discourse.
“In the immediate aftermath, George Bush said that the enemy was terrorism. The real enemy, though, is radical Islam, not one group or another,” she says. “For the past 22 years, Americans have never acknowledged it.”
In addition, the United States has also avoided reckoning with Teheran’s role in the attack.
“America’s willful blindness to Iran’s role in global terrorism, including in the September 11 attacks, is part of the collective amnesia about the events of September 11,” she concludes.
Illegal Arab settlement could be presented as Pac-man. 😀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man
https://youtu.be/dScq4P5gn4A
There’s a fun Korean drama about players trapped in a computer war game named after the book of tales by early 19th century American author, Washington Irving, “Tales of the Alhambra” (2018)
@Tranzon not that I’m unfamiliar with computer games. I’m a whiz at Freecell.
😀
@Tranzon Computer games? You mean battle scenarios? I don’t understand.
@ Sebastien Zorn
One way is given in my first comment.
I suppose there are other possibilities.
” Four eyes see more than two “
@Tranzon Now it’s my turn to ask, such as?
The nuclearization of the ayatollahs may be “a foreign policy success” for Bho/Kerry/Biden!!!!
@ Sebastien Zorn
Practice is the criterion of truth. Jewish
positions on a global scale are weakening. This means that smart books and articles are not enough, other ways of fighting are needed.
@ Sebastien Zorn
I’m writing about a very obvious trend. Ideas still matter, but the emotional perception of events by large numbers of people is becoming increasingly important.
These people do not think long, they do not analyze the logic of processes, do not think about contradictions and so on. d.
During the European Middle Ages, what one saw and heard mattered, not what one read. The new Middle Ages are now beginning on a global scale.
Oh, I said it. Need the edit feature and a longer time limit.
and then Senator Hillary Clinton, I meant to say.
@Ted my edit feature is gone.
@Tranzon I beg to differ. Tomorrow’s leaders get their ideas from books and articles. GW Bush was inspired by Scharansky’s thesis that democracies don’t wage war and terror to attempt the reconstruction of Iraq. Obama and the Hillar Clinton were inspired by Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” Wokesters were inspired by Robin D’Angelo’s “White Fragility,” Reagan was inspired by Milton Friedman, I, along with the US Congress, at different points, was inspired by Palestinian Media Watch, whose founder, Itamar Marcus was introduced by then Senator, Hillary Clinton, ironically.
In the words of David Horowitz, “Ideas matter.”
@ Sebastien Zorn
Baruch Spinoza : Not to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.
Alas, people are designed so that
emotions often take precedence over reason. This is especially true in our age of the Internet.
And this creates great problems for the Jews. The Jews are accustomed to appealing to logic, appealing to knowledge, appealing to common sense.
Jews write many articles. But who reads them? Mostly Jews and read.
Baruch Spinoza :Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.
Jews need to look for new and effective ways to influence the audience. I believe that much could be achieved by creating computer games. In this case, the most modern and effective psychological methods of influence on participants of games should be used.
It is possible to find other ways to solve the problem. It is clear, however, that smart articles alone cannot give the desired effect.
@Tranzon The article you posted has a great deal of explanatory power, as my History profs used to say.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/globalization-shadow-crescent-alexander-maistrovoy/
I disagree with Caroline Glick. The real enemy are the globalists who support Islamic terrorism for political gain. The Patriot Act was the colossal political gain that globalists extracted from 9/11. Instead of tracking Islamic terrorists, the Patriot Act is now being used by the Biden regime to track political opponents, and treat them without due process as domestic terrorists. The Patriot Act has been exploited to criminalize free speech and political opposition in the United States of America. It is unprecedented and extremely dangerous. Globalist megalomaniacs are sociopaths, but they are not stupid. Islamic terrorism could not succeed without the support of the globalists who encourage them, support them politically, financially, and torque the slant of the corporate media narrative. Mainstream media presents Islam as a religion like any other, and its terrorists as sympathetic fighters for Palestinian freedom. Islamic terrorism would have been defeated long ago if it were not so useful for the globalists’ campaign to establish its own totalitarian planetary Unistate. Israel’s security brass is singing the same globalist song that is destroying the American military and its ability to defend the nation. This it is not an accident – this is war between globalism and the nation state. Globalism is the head of Islam’s terrorist snake.