Posted by
rycK on Sunday, November 01, 2009 4:17:22 PM
The New Obama
Diplomacy: Clinton and Her Nasty Mouth Soars Beyond Dignity, But Does She Have a Point?
Diplomacy is
supposed to be the communication device that is conducted with aplomb, dignity
and respect although there is no cited directive
in any history books where diplomacy is presumed to effective. We read from
Wikipedia that “…diplomacy is the employment of tact to gain strategic
advantage or to find mutually acceptable solutions to a common challenge,” and that definition seems to be out
of date. We need some diplomacy that works.
We can search for
examples of how certain wars were averted, or, on the contrary how diplomacy
obviously failed to prevent our Civil War, WW 1, 2 and Korean and Viet Nam and all that. The only conclusion that
makes sense is that diplomacy as currently being practiced is nonsense. A
careful reading of the 1957 book: War and Aftermath 1914-1929 by Pierre
Renouvin enlightens us on diplomacy. This source gives us an objective view of the workings of
‘diplomacy’ from the early teens to 1929 and the results obtained from the
expenditures seems to show that nearly all the talking and mumbling went for
naught. All the meetings and subsequent treaties and erratic whooping about
preventing Germany from getting her revenge after Versailles and restraining Japan in the Pacific went for nothing. For the case of the Middle East, we have had
decades of such performances leading to exactly nothing of substance. We need some diplomacy that works.
Perhaps Secretary of State Mx. Hillary Clinton
has broken new diplomatic barriers
and soars enlightened in the very ethers as she seems to have tossed out the
older rules and inserted some kind of trendy Arkansas Dialogue. Some think she
is abrasive and insulting; I wonder if she is a herald for a new era of
communication among states. She may hold the key to effective diplomacy.
But, the definitive proof is contained in the
end result, if we fall back on reason, and assess cause and effect mechanics
before the fact. Then, we can test out her new methods. Here are some problems
to be solved:
Problem: The Pakistanis cannot find Al Qaeda anywhere in Pakistan.
Solution: “I find it hard to believe
that nobody in your government knows where they [Al Qaeda] are and
couldn’t get them if they really wanted to,” she [Hillary Clinton] added. [Emphasis is mine in
all quotes.]
“Maybe that’s the case; maybe they’re not gettable. I don’t know... As far as
we know, they are in Pakistan,”-- Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan: Hillary Clinton
Freshly translated and presented here, but
only broaching the delicate fringe of the new frontier of the new method of
reading scripts I have selected to use: the ‘Unspoken Words Theorem’--so aptly invented by Maureen Dowd the Old Red Lady of
the Old Gray Lady
[e.g. Quoting Dowd:
“But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken
word in the air: You lie, boy!”]—and here it
is!
[Fair, or not], we seem to be able to
deduce [translations in blue] what Hillary was actually saying:
“Listen you drooling bumpkins, you have terrorists everywhere in
your backward country, your military and even your intelligence services so you
look like idiots when you say you cannot neutralize them. Don’t lie to us!”
And more:
Problem:
Not enough taxes
“The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world... We (the United States) tax everything that moves and
doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she said.”
“You are so stupid not to tax your citizens into oblivion as we are
going to do. Where have you been? Do you realize how much money you are
ignoring? My co-conspirator and I have made more than 100 million dollars from
our corruption and bias and you are cutting off some of that future income. ”
Problem:
Population
“You do have 180 million people. Your
population is projected to be about 300 million. And I don’t know what you’re
going to do with that kind of challenge, unless you start planning right now,”
she said.
“Do anything, including total or even nuclear war, to reduce your
population and think about free condoms for all citizens. You are screwing
yourselves into poverty. “
Perhaps
she even hints about the zero-growth notion of spreading around AIDs or malaria
in Pakistan as this was very successful in Africa. Capital punishments from committing
sodomy under the law in your state might help lower the count also.
And, on
tax and population concerns merged we might read:
A combined solution to
two problems:
“Raise the taxes as high as you can and make food scarce and expensive
and then institute 100% inheritance taxes and then, for the grand move, withhold
healthcare for the oldies and this will moderate
your population increases and put more money into the hands of politicians. Those are useless mouths anyway.”
I think
being ‘frank’ with the tribalistic protosimians in the Middle East might just shake up the jar and
reassemble the marbles. The Clintons have shown us hitherto unknown
and unexplored nuances in political conduct such as erotic cigar diddlings,
syntax conundrums (like calling taxes “investments”) and how criminality can be
excused by political acclaim.
But, there are tacky potential backlashes to her new methods such
as her relaying the Obama message that:
“On a
one-day Middle East visit on Saturday,
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsed Israel's view that
settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank should not be a bar to resuming
negotiations -- contradicting the Palestinian position.”
The reply:
"The
negotiations are in a state of paralysis, and the result of Israel's
intransigence and America's back-pedaling is that there is no hope of
negotiations on the horizon," Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah said.-- Palestinians accuse
U.S. of killing peace prospects
“Go
ahead and build new homes in the settlements because the Jewish lobby was very
generous to us in the last election so we owe you one.”
There
is a bit of perceptible conflict here among the players from Hillary’s message,
but we should give these comments some time to soak into the soft and minuscule
neuronal sets of our Middle Eastern friends. It may simply be a soggy residual
from the older form of ‘diplomacy.’ Who knows?
Only
time will tell, but with Hillary on the scene there are bound to be fireworks
and other pyrotechnic illuminations. She is not exactly ‘neutral’ on any topic
so we expect her to carve out new ruts in the phony nostrum called diplomacy
and might even accomplish something even if it is war.
rycK
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