Wishful thinking ( a short note on Part 1 of Baba Kadiri’s “The Psychopathic Global Leaders”)
Cornelius Hamelberg
Baba Kadiri's part 1 is to be followed up by a pungent Parts 2 and 3 which will be posted in due course. It gets progressively more interesting, gradually updating us to contemporary reality.
Back in the 80s and early 90s of the last century, Professor Jan Hjärpe ( professor of Islam - at the University of Lund - Sweden's bastion of theology) used to start many of his public lectures ( of which I attended more than a few) he used to shock start those lectures with what sounded like a revelation back then, that up to 1919 and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire that Baba Kadiri referred to, Sweden and the other great European nations used to pay the jizya tax to Turkey/The Ottoman Empire, for safe passage on the High Seas and other waterways such as the Mediterranean Sea etc. etc.
Fast forward - the megalomaniacal Trump wants to rename the Strait of Hormuz which is in the Persian Gulf, he wants to rename it The Strait of Trump . In my view, this partly explain this line of poetry : “The American Century betrayed by a mad Senate which no longer sleeps with its wife"
Re - diagnosing some leaders as psychopaths, ill-informed, misinformed, full of illusions, self-aggrandisement, daydreaming delusions of grandeur. Since they like to boast that “America is a Christian country” his interlocutors would like to know, post his appearances before the earthly courts of law, when he finally appears before The Judgment Seat of Christ whether or not the wannabe emperor, will still be insisting that “it’s America First”, still be saying without remorse, grab ‘em by the pussy, the full Monty, psychotic, and sadistic.
The latter is most often associated with Marquis de Sade
Trevor Noah jokes, Why Kim Jong Un Thinks Donald Trump is a Psychopath
He - ( you know which he), obliterates, he wants to obliterate, he would like to obliterate, he takes great pride in saying that he obliterated, but he himself does not want to be obliterated. It would be no great glee on his part to read this kind of headline: Trump Obliterated - which soothsayers say will happen to him and his at the mid-term elections at which wine will turn to water, what he thought was already nailed will become unnailed, and someone’s ass will at the very least, surely turn to grass. Hopefully, he will lose both houses, begin part 2 of his second term as a lame duck president, soon after which, on a day of infamy like the 6th of January, he will be impeached as a result of which the whole world will be happy and erupt into joyous celebration: Oh Happy Day!
He has not done any military service, talk less of bravery and Trump personally leading his men into battle like the heroic kings of yore, and yet, he had the gall to say about Senator John McCain, "He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured.”
Is that the sort of thing Trump is going to say to the families of elite American marines who get captured and held as prisoners of war in Iran?
It was sweet of John Kerry quoting Abraham Lincoln, “ I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side. “
In the meanwhile the mago mago president, personal residence after retirement, Mar-a-Lago, loves giving deadline ultimatums, and of course only procrastinates when he has to ( under compulsion) - as I'm sure many of us will probably do when the angel of death appears and says, time’s up, it’s time to go , and at such a time, it’s not only Mr President who could be praying for a life extension of several years, months, days and minutes -
as the bard sang,
For them that think death’s honesty
Won’t fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes must get lonely
- at a time when some of us could be pleading a little like James Taylor, Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight …
It’s interesting that there’s going to be a peace conference hosted by Pakistan bringing together delegates from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.
With regard to Baba Kadiri’s reference to Thomas Edward Lawrence
I should also like to refer to Confessions of a British Spy published by Hakikat Kitabevi , Istanbul, Turkey, and freely available here : https://www.hakikatkitabevi.net/downloads/018.pdf
Cornelius Hamelberg
I can't remember whether or not I made it clear somewhere here about Confessions of a British Spy , that on the basis of language alone one can safely assert that Hempher did not write his confessions in eighteenth century English….