Gird and Sigh - A Sliver of Chat on States of Affairs

Hi, S.,

 The west—and this may be underscored this week by the UN’s hosting a lynch mob of Israel—seems unable to coalesce in getting behind the better inclined in troubled societies.

 By “getting behind the better inclined”, I refer to the allocation of substantial financial, military, and political resources.  From Egypt to Somalia, we do a share of such work, but the challengers are like spreading shadows before nightfall—pervasive, persistent, intimidating within their spheres, and violent, and we let them get away with what they do.

The weaker the body as host, the stronger the eventual medicine, and with such cancers as we behold, that medicine may well turn out at least half as ugly as the problems yet to be expelled. 

The Palestinian community on the West Bank provides possibly the best sense of what is not happening in the middle east, and that is the expression of good people standing up to evil ones.  The old Russian bloc language comes through from the Left, and Ismail Haniyeh from the Islamist corner seems to speak clearly enough to ears that choose to deny what they are hearing.  Such behavior does not reflect differences but rather a state of affairs involving aggressive and still uncontained forces and compliant or hapless and impotent populations.

I’m going to post this to my blog, which I have starved of attention for a while.

I tell you it’s hard getting around to playing music when there is so much pressing on good souls to sail out ahead of mobocracies, thugocracies, and the general fascist and totalitarian tendencies that would seem to want to bloom within even the better established democracies.

Best regards,

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