taking the intereview further

TAKING THE INTERVIEW FURTHER

The particular effort made by Ahmadenijad to respond to clown-questions asked by the Jewish TV journalist-showman included this: to extract an objective meaning from the questions to which he could give a positive reply, leaving aside tweaks, taunts (“You martyr guy soldiers like to die, right?”), insulting tone (“18 pages! What did you expect to get back?”), sartorial foppery (“You look just fine! Take it from me, we Jews ought to know .. you look just fine in that jacket there.”) plus the standard attempts to put words in his mouth and demand answers to loaded questions. (“Yes or No on wanting relations with Bush?) What he managed to get across from the superior, laid-back position was impressive.

As the interview wore on and it became clear that the dowdy Iranian was more than up to the challenge, Mike Wallace had to reach deeper and deeper into his bag of Jewish tricks. Something about the presidents steady gaze while talking about how it would be possible to address the people of Middle East from a position of Love, not from a position identified with merciless Zionism, seemed to make him squirm. “You are an interesting man”…. It was a Josey Wales moment. Ahmadenijad should have let it hang longer. (“And what are you?” – would come through)

Whoever is hooking up these hugely entertaining scenarios had better watch it.
The elliptical sentences about “good guys” are no longer doing the job. Gone, morals, gone, along with the myth of Israel’s “deterrence”.

For instance: the J-word canards Mel Gibson was made to eat shit for uttering suddenly don’t sound false anymore, not even “anti-semitic”, just disgusted as hell.

And whosever idea it was to filter America’s first up-close interview with this new world leader through a CBS Mike Wallace (a good Jew, if there are any), coming away having eaten no shit at all, “just the other way around” (an expression he used for who is committing aggression against whom in Lebaanon), may have committed a colossal “mistake” (not that they could help it).

The picture of Iran Man drubbing higher religion teaching into the heads of the Bush-Blair-Ohlmert worshippers and the death-wish preachers they listen to carries great metaphysical and historical clarity. “There are many different ways to view the world,” he said. You have to break the “god’s chosen people” warp to see them.

Final note on the big picture perspective. With S. Hersh’s expose of the role the Bush team was playing behind the scenes to bring about the Lebanon war, using Israel as “test case”, “trial war”, “demo run” to gain data for a military assault on Iran, puts the lie to the claim that Hizbollah is the originator and aggressor, as Wallace, Bush and those following the official line continue to insist. One sees now why they must. It’s the only way to keep their lies straight.

Another particular thread of events we know Blair and Bush were following the last few weeks is the “TARGET: USA” lipstick bomb plot. Also suddenly sprung on everyone, just like the Lebanon plot. Plot. Given that the Americans insisted the Brits make early arrests, even though the alleged plotters weren’t ready to go, without passports or airline tickets, the question of timing, that is to say, of group psychodynamics, becomes relevant. Could the follow-up “Plot” – an elaborate fantasy scenario to bring down 10 or more planes all at once by smuggling ingredients aboard, mxing and detonating the concoction in the lavatory. … could this be a secondary, fall-back Reversal position to cover up the real plot THEY had going against the Arab/Islamic worlds? A double plot, one by the “Islamic fascists” to “TARGET: AMERICA” (CNN first announced; then muted the self-applicable “death wish” connotation) , following up that of America and Israel to TARGET: HEZBOLLAH. Sort of like pre-emptive blow-back, neutralizing that glimpse of the wanton and depraved mindset that could inflict the destruction of life and property this little war has cost.