Over the past few days, Mr. Trump alienated allies and cut a deal with a brutal dictator, calling our closest allies "dishonest and liars" and the dictator "Honest, direct and productive" even a great friend. Mr. Trump's story and patterns in life, and more so his election campaign and presidency, all revolve around these principles.
At the news conference in Singapore he was asked ;"What do you say to America's allies that worry you are jeopardizing our long time alliances and worry you are treating our historic friends as enemies and our enemies as friends ?? "That's a very fair question." was his answer .
In the past, crusading, exhibiting and demanding Democracy as we understand it in the West, and more particularly in America, was totally failing common sense, free elections as we so often demanded have produced groups and regimes that did not necessarily suit our agendas and are not to our liking. Iran and Israel two extremes, both very dangerous to world stability and the M-E region, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, lately Muqtada Al-Sadr in Iraq, and many other nationalists and populists from Asia to the Mediterranean to Europe not to forget our own bizarre turn of political event with our last election .
Patrick Buchanan asks a very valid question, "Defeating fascism and Nazism was a cause for America, defending the West against communism was a cause, but what cause now unites Americans". Is it ushering all Jews in Israel, as the Christian Evangelists want to enhance their Armageddon, it's certainly not Christianizing the world, as Russia and the East Europeans are beating us into the Christian mood. The Israeli Neocons and Orthodox fanatics have their own hegemonic and imperialist political agendas, and defeating Islam is not really a priority for most Americans.
Finally we seem to be more at ease with dictators and oligarchs than traditional allies, so what is our real cause nowadays ?? and what unite Americans for the coming years ?? Many people in today's world call for a new moral based society, a new foundation of ethics, more social and equitable distributions, they don't mean new inventions or higher technologies, but for the development of man's higher faculties and their application in our daily lives.
We humans should at all cost keep striving to rise continually to our higher potentialities, or risk falling away from them as is clearly the case all over the Middle-East and many parts of the world, our self-awareness of our higher faculties and the cultivating of them is primordial to our survival as humans in this more complex material world of our creation .
" What kind of a nation wants to be associated with mass murder of innocent men and women and children ?" The US president asked during one of his political rallies, he did not specify which country he meant exactly, Syria or Israel or both, he left it to us to deduce .
We have to stop collective barbarism in all its forms, be it in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen or Israel, just to name a few, can we rely on the hope that a turning around will be accomplished by enough people, and quick enough to save the modern world and humanity itself !!!
My usual many thanks for every one's time .
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