Posted by
VBushmills on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 2:24:46 PM
Moses Sands said several times that things always come in twos, sometimes threes. Years ago he said that in every fight there are three parties, two sides which are committed, and a third which sort of saunters over to the side waiting to see who's getting the upper hand...or as Mr Obama says, "see how things play out."
You see, from his point of view it makes no sense to take a side if that side is the one who is more apt to lose. The Left congratulates this position as "pragmatism" when their guy's in charge, but in a world when good finds itself pitted against evil, or liberty against tyranny, this pragmatism is nothing more than cowardice. This isn't the Steelers versus the Colts. It's the planting of a deeply held value into the ground, as a position from which one will not retreat. It is a position of Men, and every American president has had to at least try to fake it, just like sincerity, in order to insure that circle in never broken.
It's what the townsfolk did when the bandits lined up against the sheriff in High Noon and a hundred other westerns. They were secretly rooting for Gary Cooper, but they didn't want to overly-aggravate the bad guys, either, just in case they should kill off the sheriff. They wanted to put themselves in the position to sidle up to the winner, no matter who it was, so as to secure themselves. Life among average folks usually works out that way.
This is what weak townspeople do, by the way. A kind of cowardice, not really to be scolded, but rather pitied, it is founded on a lack of experience of looking evil in the eye...and spitting in it, when the situation calls for it. To do so requires not only experience, but the skill to confront confidently...and townspeople usually don't have it.
So why then does the President of the United States, the putative leader of the Free World, who professes to have none of those shortcomings, and every imaginable "skill" covering his back, amble off to the side like an ordinary frightened citizen?
Because he is just like them, that's why. He is ordinary, oh so very ordinary...so ordinary he was described by many great authors so many times years before he was born, and today, as then, way, way out of his league, trying to walk among Men.
I am speaking about Iran, by the way...or am I speaking of much more?
VB