The Voice of Treason

The Wearin’ of the Green

Writing by treason on Thursday, 26 of January , 2006 at 7:05 pm

“My, my. Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains.”

– Humphrey Bogart (as Philip Marlowe); The Big Sleep, 1946

T walked into the room and looked at the TV screen. “Looks like St. Patrick’s Day.” Ironic, since there’s nothing lucky about this. Or is there? I’m all for Reagan optimism, but Reagan was also realistic. I keep thinking about what I said the other day about the local gay activist who likes to say that what first seems good sometimes is bad, and what at first seems bad can sometimes turn out to be good. Have a feeling sometimes that George Bush looks at the world the same way.

I watched the press conference this morning. When asked about the election results, he praised democracy. Well, he kinda has to, doesn’t he? If that’s the objective in the Middle East - to spread liberty and democracy - then free elections are a good thing. Right? He explained how well democracy can work because people will tell you what they think of you. What the people had wasn’t working, Fatah was corrupt, so people voted for a group of terrorists who are committed to wiping their neighbor off the planet.

It’s kinda like Americans voting for Jimmy Carter after voting twice for Nixon. Democracy isn’t perfect but it does tend to work itself out. Like Americans voting for Reagan - twice - after voting for Carter. The electorate is a strange breed. But Americans might just be in the mood again for change. And change is usually a good thing when the time is right. This is not a particularly good time to be changing just for the sake of change. Anti-Semites and Israel haters are calling in to C-SPAN daily, Iran’s got a major whack job in office, and Hamas is running the show next door.

Hitler was elected, wasn’t he? Germans were desperate and that genocidal Austrian looked like he could fix their problems. Like Jimmy Carter. On the surface, Carter looked like the answer to Nixon. In fact, in the current issue of National Review, John Derbyshire - in reviewing Carter’s new book - offers one of the best explanations of Carter I’ve ever read. He expresses guilt over his loathing of the man; after all, Carter is “a very American figure” - a “combination of dogged industriousness, earnest religiosity, public spirit, and shameless self-promotion.” He admits there’s something there to admire: Carter “served his country, in the military and in public life, …practiced business, …claims adherence to a studious and generous style of Christian belief” and “his private life has been spotless, his administration down at the low end of the corruption scale.” On the surface, then, Carter seems damn near perfect. But that’s when Derbyshire nails it. Carter is like “the purest breed of dog, with all the ‘points’ perfectly developed,” but is still “sickly and ill-tempered in personality.” The result, as I’ve said before, is a bitter little man who still can’t get over 1980. As Derbyshire says, he’s “a nasty piece of work.”

But as bad a president as Carter was, some good came out of his administration: the realization that America needed to get out and vote for a real president. So what good can come out of yesterday’s election?

“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they also produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace - and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”

– Orson Welles (as Harry Lime); The Third Man, 1949

Yes, but those were the Italians. The Palestinians are another story. Hamas is, essentially, Iran. How ’bout that Charter? The American elite can spin this anyway they want and call these people humanitarians, but their Charter is clear:

“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”

“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”

“The Zionist invasion is a vicious invasion… It relies greatly in its infiltration and espionage operations on the secret organizations it gave rise to, such as the Freemasons, The Rotary and Lions clubs, and other sabotage groups. All these organizations, whether secret or open, work in the interest of Zionism and according to its instructions…”

They are the big, bad wolf huffing and puffing at the door. A brick house is required in order to survive. Peace through strength, says Netanyahu.

I hate to say it, but as bad as Sharon in a coma seems, maybe it’s a good thing. He should be spared this, but now someone has to come in and clean up the mess. Elections are coming up. Could Netanyahu be the one?

Israelis were polled and it appears that many, desperate for peace, would be willing to work with Hamas. I say to the Jewish people: think very carefully before you board that train.

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