We left our two Arab friends from a previous post (What Have You Done For Me Lately) – August 18), discussing Obama by their desert fire and preparing for bed, undecided whose camel would be queen for the night. We find them the following morning around the breakfast fire still talking about Obama and how he has disappointed them and the entire Ummah.

I tell you sir, the first man said

He promised us the earth

He promised he would kill the Jews

He hasn’t proved his worth

I much prefer that Farsi guy

He’s nuts, I like his style

Not Arab, no, but that’s okay

He’s full of cunning guile

I quite agree, the other said

I’m disappointed too

You’d think a man who’s named Hussein

Would gladly kill the Jew

We’ve got to look for other guys

To lead us to the top

Not cheer us on one day and then

The next day tell us stop

I cannot stand a squishy man

No courage, no nor heart

I wouldn’t give him time of day

Or one small camel fart

And speaking thus of camel farts

The first man softly said

I know not what you feed your beast

But she farts all night in bed

Hamas and Hezbollah have rearmed to the point where Israel must certainly do something, if only in self defense. Between them they have over 100,000 short and medium range rockets capable of hitting every target in Israel, and await only the word from Iran to launch another round in the ongoing but undeclared war between Israel and Iran. Into this quagmire the United States has stepped, trying to resolve the unresolvable, insisting that the two sides sit down in a friendly fashion and hammer out their differences. But there is an ancient story in the Middle East about a scorpion and a swimmer. The story is being played out again, with the United States playing the part of the swimmer.

Let me climb upon your back

Said the scorpion with a smile

For I have business to discuss

Across this wide wide Nile

You can’t fool me the swimmer said

For once upon my back

You’ll raise your stinger in the air’

And launch a sneak attack

The scorpion recoiled in shock

How can you think it so

For if I do then I must die

Along with you I go

All right the swimmer said at last

And helped him climb aboard

And in the middle of the Nile

The rider drew his sword

And plunged it deep into the back

And killed the swimming beast

The scorpion said as he went down

Well, that’s the Middle East

The left has captured the cultural institutions. Marxist professors rule the universities, teaching kids the United States is evil. They own the media, newspapers today are a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic Party, printing the party line as fact. Hollywood paints the United States to the world as an evil, crime ridden, racist, imperialist society.  Democrats have apologized to the Japanese for everything from winning the war to burning their cites to dropping the atomic bomb, and we seem on the verge of doing more apologizing as our Secretary of State pays a visit to Japan. The left has over the past many decades developed and perfected the narrative: the United States wantonly, deliberately, criminally and entirely unnecessarily dropped atomic bombs on a peaceful and unsuspecting Japan.

The facts do not matter it’s image that counts

The narrative sees that the country’s guilt mounts

We clap and we cheer when we see rubble bounce

We slew ‘til resistance was stilled

We started the war for the promise of gain

And suffered no loss while inflicting great pain

We dropped bombs from skies like the soft falling rain

We cared not the children we killed

We poisoned the earth with our nuclear bomb

And watched people die with the greatest aplomb

Our battlefields looked like a latter-day Somme

And we slaughtered as only we can

We built silver bombers to fly through the night

And burn down the cities while claiming to fight

In defense of freedom so we had the right

To murder a peaceful Japan

The Democrats insist that public opinion doesn’t matter, that they know what is best for us, and just because we don’t like ObamaCare now doesn’t mean we won’t come eventually to like it.  Harry Reid says we’ll love it once we know what’s in it, which seems to be the Dems’ strategy: Pass a 1,200 page bill that nobody has read and tell us we’ll love it once someone gets around to reading it. The strategy of course, is to bankrupt the country then impose Marxist rule to solve the problem they created.

There’s much to like ‘bout ‘Bamacare

Said Harry Reid with a death stare

That told us all we need to know about

The lefty scheme to get us all

Into their clutches and in thrall

So deep that no one living can get out

They’ve gone too far that’s what I think

The whole damn thing is gonna sink

The left has played its card and come up deuce

In pushing Marx right down our throats

The people with their sacred votes

Will put them all on rafts and cut them loose