MARCHING DOWN THE ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON

Waiting for the Miracle to Come

For those of you waiting for the miracle to come, Atlas is here to tell you that it's here. The events of the last week were stunning. The world is marching to war against the little Jew who wrote the Bible. The world is marching against freedom, against the West. Those of us who are married to this work, to the fight, have chronicled the play by play on the road to Armageddon, confounded by the apathy exhibited by good, decent folks in the face of this naked evil. It has been one blow after another here in America and across the world.

Many believe that it will take mass death to rouse the good. That this is the human condition. It was this way with Hitler. Everyone knew what he was and what he was saying. Just as they know what Ahmadinejad is saying, and Qaradawi, Awlaki, Ibrahim Hooper, Imam Rauf .... Everyone knew what Hitler was, and still people loved him until he stopped winning. What did it take to wake up the good folk? Mass death. By the millions.

And that is coming.

But this week, the home team scored big in the wake of overwhelming odds. In an act of diabolical calculation, Obama dropped a bomb on Netanyahu right before the Prime Minister of Israel was scheduled to speak before the joint session of Congress at the invitation of Speaker of the House John Boehner.

Obama announced a proposed return to the Auschwitz borders. Wipe out. The real story, the unity government of Hamas and Fatah, was obliterated and disappeared from the national dialague. Instead, the Prime Minister of our strongest, unflappable ally in the Middle East was boxed in. He had to defend his tiny nation; he had to rebuke the nazi-like comments of President. And so he did, brilliantly. And in doing so, he was the object of scorn and derision from the leftwing media here and abroad -- not to mention the flapping tongues of the chattering class. Obama had masterfully outfoxed our friend.

Not so fast.

The expectation of the media elite and those who think they know better was that Binyamin Netanyahu would praise Obama to the skies when he spoke at AIPAC. Obama opened the door in his remarks the day before at AIPAC. He doubled down, but spouted just enough rhetoric about "ironclad" relationships and so forth that it would have been bad form for Netanyahu not to pay tribute.

But he didn't. He made a damn fine speech and retained his dignity, his principles and his moral edge. And that was just the opening act.

His speech to the joint session in Congress was a triumph. Obama's smackdown had united the American people behind Israel. And while Obama was writing the wrong year while signing the guest book on his European campaign tour, and Obama's car, appropriately named "the Beast," got caught between the sidewalk and a hard place, and Obama had his awkward moment while reading his toast to the Queen off index cards, Netanyahu was comforting the victims in Joplin and showing America and the world what a real leader looks like and sounds like, in word and in deed.

Yes, for those waiting for the miracle, we had it in abundance.

You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little Jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson

-- Leonard Cohen, "The Future"

Get ready for the future.
It is murder.