{"id":26401,"date":"2015-10-09T15:53:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T21:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=26401"},"modified":"2015-10-09T22:37:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T04:37:40","slug":"observations-on-a-wacky-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/observations-on-a-wacky-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Observations on a wacky world"},"content":{"rendered":"

By TED ROBERTS, the SCRIBBLER ON THE ROOF<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ted_Roberts\"

It is no longer the slam-dunk of yesterday. When the move of Russian aircraft, missiles, and radar is completed, it will constitute a formidable barrier to penetration of Iranian airspace. An Iran that is the godfather of world-wide terrorism. I have no explanation as to why the foreign affairs pundits never mention this threat. But I guarantee you that the Israel Air Force (IAF) ponders it hourly.<\/p>\n

Disregarding this oversight, however, it looks like Mr. Putin is no smarter than Mr. Obama, both of whom would fail a high school exam on politics, geography, and Islamic rivalries in the Middle East. Putin has stepped into deep quicksand. (We often overrate our adversaries \u2013it\u2019s an American habit.) Who can discriminate between freedom fighters (so-called), Assad supporters, and the cluster of thugs dubbed ISIS?<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t wear uniforms, you know. Russia has little to gain from establishing supremacy into his neighborhood that makes an American slum look like the Garden of Eden. Is he suffering political dementia? Has he forgotten that oil is no longer at platinum prices? A basic question: What\u2019s in it for him, except a few raggedy, tattered communities (no cohesive nations) that will laugh at his jokes,
\ninflate his ego and then line up at Bank of Russia, hands outstretched for loans or gifts? And not to be forgotten \u2013 but infrequently mentioned \u2013 is the presence of two- to three-million Islamic Chechens
\nwithin Russian boundaries who have waged an ongoing war for independence going back to the 19th Century.<\/p>\n

No need to inflame their hostility by killing more Muslims on Middle East battlefields and who cares whether they\u2019re pro- or anti-Assad? Definitely not a smart move by a fragmented (and broke) Russia that begins to look more and more like the Austria-Hungary of pre-World War I fame, the Hapsburg empire
\nof too many races jammed together in an ill-fitting puzzle that finally resolved itself into a homogenous but shrunken Austria.<\/p>\n

And while we are talking about Russian occupation of the Syrian madhouse, consider the refugee problem. Hundreds of thousands of possessionless refugees swarming out of Syria and other Islamic states from Yemen to Libya looking for a home. And where is their target? Not Saudi Arabia or Egypt. But overwhelmingly, Germany. The country that killed six million non-Aryan Jews. The goal? A \u201dJudenfrei\u201d Germany. A pure German state. Irony of ironies. They murder millions of Jews who made immense contributions to their culture and they awake from their bloody dreams to find hordes of impoverished, ill-educated refugees pounding on the door demanding entry. And not an Aryan in the bunch.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the further mystery \u2013 Why Germany? I suppose it\u2019s the health of the economy, the availability of jobs. But they don\u2019t appreciate their luck. If it were 1938, they would have been welcomed by the Gestapo and bedded down into hotel chains like Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Bergen\u2013Belsen and Dachau.<\/p>\n

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