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RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

Countrymen,

ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT

Victor Davis Hanson, among our finest historians, especially of classics and military operations, published yesterday at Hoover Institution under title World At War.  The essay is superb for enumerating disasters related to the schizophrenic paranoiacs occupying the White House as well as academe and big media almost everywhere.  It does not identify the nature, purpose or allegiance of those sick ones and so renders minimum assistance to the Republic.  I tried to be appreciative and monitory with this comment:

Posit that Jarrett and he and their Moslem Brotherhood junta all along are here to help Iran’s hegemonic intentions, and in concert, Turkey’s, Hamas’ and China’s … and this all makes sense. No weakness or confusion at all. Very clear and deliberate actions, all successful for what they purpose. Jarret and junta do not want to help Saud, Jordan, Egypt, and friends or USA, or in the Pacific, Japan, Philippines, USA, Australia and friends. They are against “terrorists” all right, but only those backed by Saud or AQ elements unfriendly to the Brotherhood, and then only those at a distance, not Saud’s vast network of “terrorists” in USA government, media, think tanks and academe. Jarret and junta are bombing ISIS on behalf of Iran, not on behalf of USA. And “terrorist” and “Islamist” are inaccurate descriptors. The accurate ones are “Caliphist” and “Caliphism.”

Even the notorious euphemisms VDH enumerates — overseas contingency operations, man-caused disaster and workplace violence, substituting for US military operations, attacks on US sovereignty and attacks on US citizens, respectively — illustrate aspects of my comment on his essay.

The sick ones call US military operations overseas contingency operations because they are in service of a foreign power — Iran, Moslem Brotherhood and/or China — not the USA.  In the eyes of the sick ones, US military operations are not US military operations, they only use US military assets.  So they look like one thing but are really another.  One has to be very clever to pull that off and the sick ones are very clever.  And their audience is very dull.

The sick ones call attacks on US sovereignty man-caused disasters because they see no US sovereignty that can be attacked, or not.  They think they see a community of nations they want to dominate, but sovereignty of, by or for that community is not in their view of it.  Personal sovereignty — theirs — over that community of nations, yes, but not any sovereignty of, by or for it.  Even the phrase community of nations is a misdirection of theirs.  The sick ones see no sovereign nations.  By nation in that misdirection they mean region, a foreign power, not a foreign sovereignty.  The phrase as they mean it is global community, and that comprising regions now a-historically called nations and thought of, mistakenly they say, as sovereign.  All that sovereignty nonsense is so old, they say, we must think now and modernly of ourselves as bits in a global community of regions dominated by, yes, themselves, the sick ones.  The disasters they claim to see are to them inconveniences put in their way by futile organizations not of their orbit.  Of course their community of nations — really, global community — is a cloud castle, a vision, a fevered reverie of sick minds which will not actually see.

The sick ones call attacks on US citizens workplace violence because they see no US or US citizens who can be attacked, just laborers, bits, temporary conveniences, in their vision of global community.  If someone shoots or bombs or is shot or blown up, that is merely one bit of labor force being grumpy at another for a brief, passing moment — mere workplace violence — both bits merely passing through the grand vision of world peace and justice … defined and dominated, of course, by the sick ones, those better than those passing others who get grumpy.

VDH is behind the analytical necessity.  Still, he is a great man, a dedicated scholar and a fine American who needs no one’s approval or commendation, least of all that of this theologian, a nobody.  VDH has written his record.  It stands as superb work of life.

Update 1: And Al Saud intends to keep it up.  See also here.

Update 2: Muslim Brotherhood shows her colors and here and here

Update 3: VDH on 03FEB15 does keep up, almost.  I commented:

All correct and very close but no cigar because the governing wish is not to diminish but to eliminate USA as a sovereign nation state and create a new, hegemonic global financial, political, legal and ideological structure of authority that obsoletes all nation states and non-agreeing individuals and groups and places ownership and management of that superseding structure of authority in the personal hands of Jarrett/Obama and his/her supports as well as just about everyone in official D.C., the Ivies and their media/think-tank/propaganda arms.

Thus open borders, indifference to US Constitution, dismissal of US laws, subversion of national sovereignty/security and activity of that nature. USA is merely a region of a global authority owned and managed by monied families through foundations, professors and politicians they raise up and throw down as they deem needful.

Socialism on a grander, even more intensely hegemonic scale than heretofore imagined. Liberal progressivism jacked up at least one order of magnitude. Certifiable, surely, but not renounced on that account and certainly pursued against any evidence that it will not and cannot succeed.

Others of the actual intellectual leadership cadre are thinking along parallel lines at this moment and all of that is to the good. It seems to me that the activities vis-a-vis Iran, if only because they are shrouded by palpable deceit, are rousing this salutary confluence of scrutiny by genuine intellectuals.

Yes, once the strategic goal of Jarrett/Obama and his supports are seen, their enterprise is clear and logical, even though insane.

Update 4: On 27 January 2015, Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis addressed the United States Senate Armed Services Committee on the subject A New American Grand Strategy.  At Hoover Institution, who published an adapted version of General Mattis’ address, I commented — with edits here — as follows:

Not that it matters, but, I both appreciate and despond over General Mattis’ address here. Appreciate because (1) as a genuine warrior he says what he sees and eloquently and (2) his heart is unalloyed courage and compassion. Despond because (1) his address reflects lack of situational awareness — half his auditors at least regard the nation state, including USA, as obsolete and perishing — and (2) his address, although latterly specifying or implying serious tactical weaknesses of current operations, transits the periphery of his title: grand national strategy.

It is rare for a military leader to grasp and execute the several strands — principally diplomatic, economic and military, but others as well — of grand national strategy sufficiently to create a rational grand national strategic *goal* that is also inspirational. It is rare for anyone to be able to do that. General David Petraeus has that ability, which is why the Anti-American, Globalist-partisan US Justice [so-called] Department is persecuting/prosecuting him. Asking Congress or a bureaucracy to develop that ability and execute with it compares with asking a herd of cats to organize an expedition to summit Annapurna. Distilling and serving a happy grand national strategic *goal* is a personal, leadership thing few can do, but some definitely can and do accomplish. Their thoughts merit discovery and attendance.

The cynosure of a nation is not her grand national strategy. It is her grand national strategic *goal.* Given what we see now, project and anticipate — always expecting the unexpected, as General Mattis mentions, thankfully, in his address — where and what do we want to be as a nation three, five, ten, etc. years hence? What is our goal? What do we really, truly — as a nation — want for and of ourself to be, to do, to think? What is our inner necessity as a nation? What are we on this earth to accomplish as a national presence? And why do members of Congress not live in the states from which they were selected for office?

Related: On 04 March 2015  Marine GEN (Ret.) James N. Mattis wrote for Hoover Institution under title Using Military Force Against ISIS.  I commented:

I am content that GEN (Ret.) Mattis’ thinking, clear and compelling, be expressed in public.  Thank you, General!  Our countrymen are working their way towards how they will think and what they will do when they are quit of the hag riding their back.  And they will be that.  This exercise in preparation for the restoration of national sovereignty and wealth flowing from national moral and intellectual strength is what should be happening and what is happening.  I am content.

Update 5: An interesting comment string arose at Instapundit when Glenn Reynolds referenced Mark Cunningham on the subject of what The Fraud should say about Islam.  I commented as follows, making an important observation regarding the effect of religion on affairs:

Were I to take Cunningham’s essay as serious thought — and I think it is not — I would say his face is too close to the canvas, he has seen a couple of swirls of paint and yelled, “Eureka!” Were he serious, he would pull back to ponder the whole canvas or at least more of it than has caught his fancy. His enthusiasm would, shall we say, moderate.

Serious, productive thought cannot come from other than a monastic. Men and women bearing the daily burdens and cares of life, such as Cunningham, simply cannot and will not create intellectual and moral forms that benefit anyone lastingly. They are too busy, and justly so, one hopes. Such men and women can use such forms once they are created, but create them they can not and will not. Those stepped way back from the canvas — monastics — do that. The truth is the whole.

Update 6: Ed Driscoll on Americans who are not anti-war, just on the other side, the Communist side, anti-America.

Update 7: Former Obama Intel Chief: Administration’s Iran Policy Is Willful Ignorance

Update 8: GEN (R) Petraeus: The Islamic State Is Not Our Biggest Problem In Iraq

Update 9: The Saudi Connection: Wahhabism and Global Jihad, and related: Qatar.

Update 10: VDH: A Liberal’s Ten Commandments

Update 11: Washington Compost: Turkey’s Predicament

Update 12: Americans not confident their government will protect them

Update 13: Advantage VDH

Obama-Churchill might have said something like the following in regards to the 1938 Munich Agreement.

“We live in a complex world and at a challenging time. And none of these challenges lend themselves to quick or easy solutions, but all of them require British leadership. If we stay patient and determined, then we will, in fact, meet these challenges. The Munich Agreement is a comprehensive government agreement. It is the first that actually constrains Nazi Germany from further aggression, and one whose provisions are transparent and enforceable. It is a sober and judicious way to preclude war and to bring Germany back into the family of nations and to become a credible regional power, while allowing the German people to express their legitimate aspirations.”’

Update 14: VDH: Trump’s High-Stakes Tweeting

Update 15: VDH: The Method To Trump’s Madness

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA