Happy talk is dangerous.
It’s dangerous because it gets people killed. It leads people to believe foolish things. Out of idiotic hopes and fatuous dreams, leaders tend to believe what they want to believe. That is precisely the opposite of their job, particularly when it comes to national security: Foreign policy ought to be the preserve of cold-eyed men and women capable of making hard but correct decisions.
Unfortunately, politics tends to draw those with starry visions — or at least cowards who will mask their own cowardice with those starry visions.
It’s hard to tell which one President Joe Biden is these days.
As Israel’s war against Hamas continues — and make no mistake, it will continue until Hamas is utterly destroyed — Biden is starting to waver. Biden has made many of the right sounds: He has expressed support for deposing Hamas and has correctly stated that Israel has a difficult task in doing so while minimizing civilian casualties.
Yet now, prodded by a radical Left-wing legacy media and young, daft staffers, he seems to be wavering.
Biden seems to be increasingly falling victim to the propagandistic efforts of the legacy media, which promote four claims: first, that Hamas isn’t as bad as it seems; second, that Israel is much worse than it seems; third, that Israel ought to make concessions to the Palestinian Authority in order to defeat Hamas; and fourth, that Biden’s electoral prospects rely on believing the first three claims.
All four claims are false.
First, the claim that Hamas isn’t all that bad.
It’s astonishing to watch Holocaust denial form in real time, but we’re watching it happen with regard to Hamas. The rewriting of history has involved outright lies — the lie, for example, that Hamas didn’t kill people at the Supernova Music Festival, Israeli helicopters did — and obfuscation: “do you have tape of Israeli women being raped, or merely medical reports of their broken pelvises?” But more often, it’s taken the form of downplaying Hamas’ evil altogether, suggesting that now that Hamas is releasing hostages, they must be a rational actor. That’s absurd and ugly.
Then there’s claim No. 2: that Israel is morally equivalent in some way to Hamas. This claim usually takes the form of suggesting that Israel is “carpet bombing” Gaza or “indiscriminate” in its use of firepower. That’s ridiculous. Israel is protecting civilian evacuation routes Hamas is attacking; Israel is giving weeks of warning before striking sites; Israel is using “knock bombs” to empty buildings; Israel is allowing Hamas terrorists to merge into civilian populations rather than killing too many civilians. Israel is being more careful than any army in modern history. It is also dealing with a terrorist group hiding in a heavily urban area. And that means civilian casualties will be high, by necessity.
Then there’s claim No. 3: that Israel ought to make concessions to the Palestinian Authority in order to somehow curb Hamas. This is the claim of simpleton Thomas Friedman, august foreign policy columnist for the execrable New York Times, who has never met an Israeli concession he didn’t like. Today, he writes, “a revamped Palestinian Authority is the keystone for the forces of moderation, coexistence and decency.” To believe this, one must truly be an imbecile. The PA, from the outset of Oslo, saw the Oslo Accords as a Trojan Horse. Their leadership said as much. Yasser Arafat said in 1994, “This (Oslo) agreement, I am not considering it more than the agreement which had been signed between our Prophet Muhammad and Quraish.” That agreement was the prelude to the slaughter of the Quraish tribe of Mecca a few years after Mohammed signed a false peace agreement.
Then there’s the final claim: that Biden is in electoral danger specifically because of Israel’s war to exterminate Hamas.
That, too, is a lie. The data simply don’t exist to suggest that Biden’s electoral trouble is because of the Gaza War. On Oct. 7, Biden was riding at 44% in polls against former President Donald Trump, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. Today, he’s riding at 45%. On Oct. 7, he was at 40.5% approval; today, he’s at 40.4%. In other words, he’s just unpopular.
But perhaps Biden’s desperation will cause him to fall prey to these lies. If so, he won’t save himself, but he will damage both Israel and the broader West. Because if there’s one thing America’s enemies love, it’s happy talk.
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Ben Shapiro, 39, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author; his latest book is “The Authoritarian Moment: How The Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent.” To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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Typical Liberal one world ideology “Happy Talk” that our kiids get indoctrinated with, now from Pre-school through graduate school,,,,white kids excluded of course. Once out in the real world for those who do not become professional students, the shock of the real world is what turns alot of them to drugs so the delusion can be continued to the grave, all the while voting Democrat of course, the party of delusional thinkers who all they want to do is “Talk abiut the GIrl, Talk about the boy”,,,then imagine yourself to be whatever your dreams or nightmares can concoct.
We did not win the war in the South Pcific with a Rogers and Hammerstein “Happy talk” song,,,,more like a non-confused one of “There is nothing like a dame” where the men really knew who and what they fought for.
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Top Community Musli!m Leaders aren’tgoing to vote for democrat, JOE Bidem for President according to FOX News, “Even ABlind Squirrel Finds A Acorn Once-In A -While.”
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With Biden’s Poll Numbers Hitting a Low plus his AGE makrs it Easy for Muslim Leaders .
“It’s hard to tell which one President Joe Biden is these days.”
It all depends on which one of the corrupt, demented, sock-puppet President Joe Biden’s treasonous masters are in charge on any particular day. 🙁 🙁 🙁
The (SQUAD,) has down -Played Hamas Rape of Woman when they held them but some democrat groups dropped out when the dempcrat party didn’t say a word about RAPE.
YET you can bet 99% of them were out in force, decrying Kavenaugh, ALL OVER debunked claims.
ITs truly sickening to see SO MANY AMERICANS< not just Deny what Hamas has done, but in many cases, CELEBRATE IT..
Again, THE PEOPLE need to read their founding father John Adams quotes;
“Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how (Martin) Luther ever broke the spell.” ,,,,“I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth” ,,,,Now thanks to the socialists is in a total state of reverse, why? Adams explains again,,,,” Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Islam is a political organization disguised as a religion. To expect them to be compatible with the Anglo-Saxon principles of freedom and independent thought and action when they get socially indoctrinated in Mullah controlling Islam, even worse than Communism, you are not reading them from a historical proven posture of reality. The ideology of death is their comfort zone.
DEMS are nothing But immoral.
The 2-Tired Justice System, ‘For Tey But not For ME.’ The Universities Elite believe this to be true.