...the Obama administration’s partnership with the Muslim Brotherhood, while in the short term a nuisance to everyone, including Israel represents in the long run a death sentence for Egypt. Soon America will have to feed Egypt; prop it up and provide snacks to the very same people who will storm its embassy walls.
That country along the Nile used to be the
granary of civilization. Now it is the world’s biggest importer of wheat and is
rapidly running out of everything except delusions of regional destiny. Hatred
blinds and perhaps nothing encapsulates this ethos so perfectly as the now
classic statement by labor of how it forced the bankruptcy of the Hostess
company to send a strong message of union
resolve, resulting in the layoff
of everybody — 18,000 and more workers. If that is winning, what is
losing?
Perhaps the most important lesson American
conservatives can learn from Israel versus the Muslim world is that there is no
revenge greater than success. Right after the elections I wrote that “in the coming years revolutionary acts will be
indistinguishable from self-improvement.” Although there is always be a need to
resist actively, the best resistance is simply to make things work and watch
Chicago, Detroit and California fall apart. In the immortal words of that great
Communist, Deng Xiaoping, “to get rich is glorious”.
Israel, however, is in possession of the original
epigram, from which Deng’s maxim is only derivative.
THE LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.The Last Man Standing
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