America seems to be accursed with stupidity in our leaders and our policies. TD*
David Harsanyi (thefederalist.com)
There is a gross moral hypocrisy in how the president treats our allies
While backing Ukraine allows Democrats to virtue signal about their love of “democracy,” turning on Israel allows them to appease the growing anti-Western sentiment of their base. It’s only going to get worse in the coming years.
"Joe Biden has not only promised to veto any standalone Israeli aid, but he’s reportedly circulating a draft resolution within the United Nations Security Council that would compel the Jewish state to stop its ground offensive in Rafah and, effectively, give Hamas a pass. Beyond that, the U.S. is also reportedly thinking about circumventing Israel and formally recognizing a Palestinian state.
"In other words, while Ukraine is prodded by the United States to fight for every inch of its land, Israel is prodded to commit suicide.
"Indeed, anyone who dares to suggest the United States push Ukraine to negotiate a settlement with Russia is framed as a democracy-hating Putin shill. Yet, before we even knew exactly how many Israeli women and children had been murdered, raped, and kidnapped by Hamas, Democrats were demanding Israel negotiate with Palestinians to create a potential three-front Iranian-proxy terror state on its border.
"Those who wonder what the endgame of a U.S. proxy war against a nuclear power in Europe might look like are told that the only acceptable outcome is complete victory for Ukraine. The very future of world democracy, we are assured, hinges on the integrity of that nation’s borders.
"Israel, though, is asked to surrender its territorial claims and reward those who supported, coordinated, and participated in a massacre of its civilians — which included 30-plus dead American citizens — with a brand new nation. It is only through this concession that peace can be realized, contends the Western foreign policy elite. Which is weird, considering Trump circumvented the Palestinian problem and forged a historic peace agreement. Biden immediately reverted to Obama-era Iran-coddling — and, well, here we are." . . .
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist, a nationally syndicated columnist, a Happy Warrior columnist at National Review, and author of five books—the most recent, Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.
* Case in point: Biden’s woke sec of state Antony Blinken scolded staffers over ‘problematic’ language like ‘manpower’
. . ."It instructed that when speaking about military personnel, representatives of the government agency should “avoid using phrases like ‘brave men and women on the front lines,’ but something like 'brave soldiers'”
"Gender “may or may not correspond with one’s sex assigned at birth," the note continued. It further said that “commonly used pronouns could include she/her, he/him, they/them, and ze/zir," and these are a "personal decision that should be respected."
