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and the Jews"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\"Good evening to the thousands of you who are joining us from around the country,\" Doug Emhoff, the Hollywood lawyer serving as Kamala's husband, intoned. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe sign language interpreter on the small box next to him spread her arms in what was either an attempt to 'sign' Passover or a gesture of disbelief and contempt.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8pRkeFs1NSVi4WkkaGckEkKUusLcYErnkC-9Egyh30H1joveGJOgWHZrGd26ymggresOcjvNnG4Xd9C05Rm_zUJrAgzjGgE4CP7qsCeC1Ws2AgKBDZKMhXPNBzsZ9fWx1OBQwdlwLMCpNJiHqbiv_pUN6PDElSqDJhWt5LG3d_GKo9qyosos\/s809\/image_2022-04-19_203845343.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"467\" data-original-width=\"809\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8pRkeFs1NSVi4WkkaGckEkKUusLcYErnkC-9Egyh30H1joveGJOgWHZrGd26ymggresOcjvNnG4Xd9C05Rm_zUJrAgzjGgE4CP7qsCeC1Ws2AgKBDZKMhXPNBzsZ9fWx1OBQwdlwLMCpNJiHqbiv_pUN6PDElSqDJhWt5LG3d_GKo9qyosos\/s320\/image_2022-04-19_203845343.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe \"People's Seder\" was about to begin with its apostrophe in the right place and heart in the wrong place.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs the Biden White House rushes to enable Iran's nuclear program and the modern day pharaonic mullahs plotting, like the original, to wipe out the Jews, it put on a \"People's Seder\" to distract American Jews from its complicity in the latest acts of terror from Iran to Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe People's Seder sounds like a Berkeley commune. A day before the eve of Passover, the administration’s second virtual seder served no function except to give Emhoff something to do. Perhaps knowing that, Emhoff claimed, with a mostly straight face, that he had traveled the country hearing from people “how much last year’s virtual seder had meant to them”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmhoff made no mention of the over a dozen Israelis recently killed in terror attacks. Neither, seemingly, did so many of the speakers who rambled on about the importance of “empathy”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmpathy applies to everyone except the Israeli Jews mourning their dead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPassover, to Emhoff, proved to be about Ukraine, about the pandemic, and “protecting democracy”. Maybe Emhoff can tell me which democratic process elected Moses. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen a particularly haggard Biden, looking awkwardly at things off camera, boasted that this was the “first time in three years that families sit around the seder table.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat might be true in Washington D.C., but it certainly isn’t true in America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden then declared that during Passover, his hearts were “with the people of Ukraine”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe camera cut to the White House's bewildered Jewish liaison.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPassover, so far, was about Ukraine. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe previous seder, featuring \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/04\/kamalas-husband-hosts-virtual-passover-hell-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ean anti-Israel activist\u003C\/a\u003E, was apparently so popular that Emhoff decided to recycle his shtick about “gelatinous gefilte fish” from last year. Then he declared that “ever since I was a kid, I have been inspired by the story of Exodus.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndeed, who could forget the time Moses went back to Egypt, married Pharaoh’s sister, and settled down to the business of assisting in the genocide of the Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmhoff’s presentation was followed by a long list of speakers eager to delve into Passover as a metaphor and uninterested in it as a substantial reality. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was Andrew Rehfeld, the first \"non-rabbinic\" head of the Reform Movement's Hebrew Union College seminary, who had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/andrew.rehfeld\/posts\/10101606531280262\"\u003Edefended\u003C\/a\u003E BDS supporters against claims of antisemitism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Some students have been attracted to the BDS movement because of their love of Israel, and their repugnance of what they see as its unjust treatment of Palestinians,\" Rehfeld had argued. \"BDS is not the answer.  But that does not mean that their concerns are without merit.\"  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERehfeld appeared with a large placard behind him declaring, \"Another Jew for LGBTQ Equality\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe non-rabbinic head of a movement that denies the existence of the G-d of the Torah made no mention of the Creator of the Universe, but spoke about “bullying” and “civil society”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was followed by J Street’s Deborah Lipstadt, who talked about Ukraine, and Jeopardy host Mayim Bialik who… also talked about Ukraine. An ignorant viewer might have concluded that in the Bible, the Jews had left Ukraine, rather than Egypt. After a brief interjection by an Orthodox Rabbi who actually had a seder plate on display, next up was Afroculinaria's Michael W. Twitty, a black gay social justice chef who had previously accused Israel of racism.and who explained that in his seder molasses \"represented the transatlantic slave trade.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDayenu!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe People’s Seder was dedicated to philosophical abstractions that erased Jews and negated the fundamental truths of the Passover story. Attaching the \"People's\" to something is a negation. That's why the various democratic people's republics were anything but and why the People's Seder isn't a seder, or at least not a Jewish one, but a People’s Republic of Seder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELess than two minutes into his virtual farce, Emhoff had declared that \"even though the Exodus tells the story of a particular people, its message is universal.\" Everything about Judaism to secularists is universal, and nothing is particular or relevant to the actual Jews.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt would be dangerous to focus on the particular people currently being killed once again in their own country because Emhoff’s wife’s boss chooses to stand with Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the People’s Seder was done, Ambassador Tom Nides, who had been caught \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/03\/bidens-israel-ambassador-tells-bds-group-he-wants-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Epraising a BDS group \u003C\/a\u003Eand boasting of trying to keep Jews out of Jerusalem, issued a press release in English, Arabic, and Hebrew (in that order) which urged “Jews, Muslims and Christians” (also in that order) to avoid \"actions that further escalate tensions\" during \"this sacred holiday period\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat would include concluding the seder with the traditional call, “Next Year in Jerusalem”, signifying a return to a city that Biden and Nides deny is Jewish and want to keep Jews out of.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENides, Emhoff, and other administration enablers of Jewish descent, erase Jews from Passover and Jerusalem, and replace the real people and their history with social justice abstractions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPart of the problem is that Emhoff, like your average leftist of Jewish ancestry knows as much about Judaism as I do about dating Kamala. And cares just as little. Stripping Judaism of its particularism appears liberating to someone like Emhoff because it also frees him of what he and his family see as a limitation on their identities and their potential social aspirations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe People’s Seder is not a Jewish people’s seder because that’s the last thing Emhoff wants.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELiberation to lefties of Jewish descent means the ability to be less Jewish. That is at odds with the message of Passover and of Judaism which is that liberation comes from being more Jewish. The Jews who had tried to fit into Pharaoh’s tyranny had become slaves, while the slaves who defied an empire by conducting a seder that mocked Egyptian beliefs were set free.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUniversalism is enslaving while particularism is liberating.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Passover seder’s message, with its careful recreation of the particular experiences, sensory, emotional, and intellectual, of Egyptian slavery and liberation, is a painstaking excercise in particularism. The People’s Seder, like virtually all lefty religious practices, is an equally painstaking exercise in rejecting the particular for the universal by turning the events into metaphors that can be glibly made to mean anything as long as it’s unrelated to the Jews. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s all very well to turn the story of Passover into a metaphor, but Moses didn’t arrive to talk to Pharaoh about abstractions like empathy and emotional growth, but with a simple message.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Let My People Go.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe People’s Seder claims to be about liberation, but actually enslaves. It rejects “the four languages of liberation” whose four steps \"I will take you out\", \"I will save you\", \"I will redeem you\" and \"I will take you\" develop it as relationship between G-d and the Jewish people, to universalize it into hollow self-help empowerment in which there is no relationship with G-d.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstead there is a relationship with the leftist deity of government all too familiar to Pharaoh.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorshipping government isn’t liberation, it’s slavery.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8797522244073251115\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/the-biden-administrations-seder-makes.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8797522244073251115"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8797522244073251115"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/the-biden-administrations-seder-makes.html","title":"The Biden Administration’s Seder Makes a Mockery of Passover and the Jews"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi8pRkeFs1NSVi4WkkaGckEkKUusLcYErnkC-9Egyh30H1joveGJOgWHZrGd26ymggresOcjvNnG4Xd9C05Rm_zUJrAgzjGgE4CP7qsCeC1Ws2AgKBDZKMhXPNBzsZ9fWx1OBQwdlwLMCpNJiHqbiv_pUN6PDElSqDJhWt5LG3d_GKo9qyosos\/s72-c\/image_2022-04-19_203845343.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-414574219163485908"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-19T00:03:00.003-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-19T00:03:38.090-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ukraine"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden's 'Integrated Deterrence' Military Strategy Failed in Ukraine"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003ELast year, Secretary of Defense Austin claimed that a new strategy called \"integrated deterrence\" would be at the heart of Biden's new defense strategy. Last month, he was talking up a new National Defense Strategy driven by integrated deterrence while claiming that it would prove effective against Russia in the war in Ukraine. Instead the war showed “ID” doesn’t work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1Zcg3hqjBxWIOx6FAI00G7GhBIObroEFu4JFLTjL0qvSwgmm9m_EKffgWRGdxiurao1p2VB6oUerUKI331UNoKrMzm-mCNkbSBSVCd69gg1tSo7h5F3aXD6H6hyeYSbbgHaIniS2271ld9ZarJMTHweT4DIIagrHr3EyEfOY3n_JB6Gopf-Q\/s652\/biden%20car%20frame.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"484\" data-original-width=\"652\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1Zcg3hqjBxWIOx6FAI00G7GhBIObroEFu4JFLTjL0qvSwgmm9m_EKffgWRGdxiurao1p2VB6oUerUKI331UNoKrMzm-mCNkbSBSVCd69gg1tSo7h5F3aXD6H6hyeYSbbgHaIniS2271ld9ZarJMTHweT4DIIagrHr3EyEfOY3n_JB6Gopf-Q\/s320\/biden%20car%20frame.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhat is \"integrated deterrence\"? It sounds better than leading from behind, which was Obama's version of it, but it’s not too different from the failed approach of the Obama administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike a lot of organizational jargon, \"integrated deterrence\" is a collection of meaningless buzzwords that no one understands concealing the same old thing that dresses up failure as  success because under the exciting new approach, no one was even trying to succeed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence, if you listen to Austin, is everything and therefore nothing. ID is going to perfectly integrate together all military capabilities without regard for service rivalries, combined with all elements of the federal government, and be ready to go anywhere at home or across the globe without any friction or limitations, while also seamlessly integrating with our allies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr, as Austin put it during a visit to Poland, integrated deterrence uses “the capability and capacity that's resident in our partners and allies.\" Or, you know, leading from behind.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EID means being \"integrated across our allies and partners, which are the real asymmetric advantage that the United States has over any other competitor or potential adversary,\" Colin Kalh, Biden's undersecretary of policy, had claimed. “Our adversaries know that they're not just taking on the United States, they're taking on a coalition of countries who are committed to upholding a rules-based international order.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmerica has plenty of asymmetric advantages. Being tied to the Germans and the French, not to mention the awesome might of a variety of small countries that have marginal militaries and no desire to fight is not making China, Russia, or anyone else tremble in their leather boots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA rules-based international order has not stopped a single war or deterred any aggressor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnnouncing that our true asymmetric advantage is that we have allies is just an excuse for dumping the problem on them and then leading from behind. That’s what Biden keeps doing.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it isn’t working.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s Pentagon flacks and hacks keep talking up the “integrated” part, but haven’t actually integrated anything and they certainly haven’t deterred anyone.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe “rules-based international order” has not stopped China’s incursions into Taiwan’s airspace (not to mention its violation of its agreement over Hong Kong’s civil liberties), the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, or Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Had they been unable to defend themselves, they would now be just another conquered province. That is the real lesson here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the lesson every country, predator or prey, around the world is taking to heart.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence saw its first real field test in the Ukraine war. And it failed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInternational outrage, condemnation, and even the most punishing sanctions failed to stop Putin. Much as Obama’s previous sanctions had done nothing to stop Putin from claiming Crimea, and as sanctions had likewise failed to do anything but annoy everyone from Saddam Hussein to the Kim crime family to the otherwise bankrupt socialist regime in Venezuela.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"You're seeing us lead with diplomacy. You've seen us work very, very carefully with our allies and partners to share information,\" Austin claimed in Poland.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELeading with diplomacy is appeasement and it works almost as well as sanctions. But, equally important, information sharing has been nearly as disastrous, not only among allies who were blindsided, as with the Poland plane deal, but even within the White House. Much as Obama and Kerry blindsided each other over Syria’s chemical weapons, Biden, his cabinet members, and White House comms people keep contradicting each other about Ukraine and Russia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the Biden administration can’t even integrate its own responses to a crisis at the White House level, what hope is there for the fantasy of a federal and multinational team “all woven together and networked” across all levels and theaters that lies at the heart of the ID fantasy?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration hasn't even figured out how to crawl and in typical prog fashion unveiled a plan to not only fly, but encompass all space and time with a single thought.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence provides a familiar set of excuses for not doing things.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESecretary of Defense Austin and other Pentagon brass are using ID to shift the burden away from building up a military that is ready to fight and win wars over to the State Department and other parts of the government. The deterrence part already signals retreat while the integrated part assigns the responsibility to everyone else including foreign governments and militaries.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile America’s partners aren’t where they need to be, the massive amounts of money we spend on the military are meant to buy us real offensive and defensive capabilities, not excuses.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Integrated deterrence deemphasizes the role of the military while focusing on alternatives to it as the solution to conflicts. This isn’t a new idea for Democrats and the Left, it’s also notoriously ineffective. The military can’t and shouldn’t be the default solution to everything, but neither should we pretend, as Biden is doing in Ukraine, that there are a variety of effective non-military solutions to military problems. We can choose to engage or not engage in conflicts, but when we get involved in a war by throwing out useless non-military solutions, we show weakness.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that makes it more likely that we will end up having to fight a real war.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIntegrated deterrence asks top defense officials and military leaders to act as if non-military solutions are military ones. But just as it’s not the job of diplomats to fight wars, diplomacy is not the work of generals. Yet under Obama and Biden, the military has been dragged into doing the work of diplomats in Libya and Afghanistan even as our military capabilities have declined.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnsatisfied with emphasizing appeasement over actions within the White House, the Biden administration’s integrated deterrence is emphasizing appeasement within the military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe want generals to win wars, not negotiate with enemies. That absurdity is how Chief of Staff Gen. Milley ended up assuring his Chinese opposite number that he would warn him of any attack. It’s bad enough when diplomats act like this, it’s much worse when generals do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet turning generals into diplomats is what integrated deterrence is built on. Not only don’t we get good diplomats out of the deal, we also get useless generals.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBeyond integrated deterrence, Biden defense officials increasingly champion “holistic” solutions which efface specific capabilities. They insist that America’s military isn’t being weakened, it’s becoming more “flexible” and “responsive”, even as they eliminate metrics for everything from individual soldiers to classes of aircraft. When everything is “flexible” and “integrated”, then nothing actually works because everything is a giant buzzword that never means anything.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt doesn’t matter how well the F-35s work or whether the new fitness standards for recruits amount to anything because what really matters is the unsolvable puzzle, not the pieces.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat is invariably how leftist projects, which are all about the vision, not the details, fall apart.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the real solutions don’t come from the mere deployment of force, but emerge out the syzygy of identity politics, inspirational talks about innovation, and emergent integration of everything that military leaders have become obsessed with then battlefield competence becomes a footnote in a progressive vision of tomorrow’s military that doesn’t work today.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd may never work.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUkraine has shown that integrated deterrence is another in a series of Potemkin villages cloaking the same bad ideas in buzzwords and jargon. ID, in Obama’s familiar line, tries to make a weakness seem like a strength, but in reality it just makes everything into one big weakness.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/414574219163485908\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/bidens-integrated-deterrence-military.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/414574219163485908"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/414574219163485908"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/bidens-integrated-deterrence-military.html","title":"Biden's 'Integrated Deterrence' Military Strategy Failed in Ukraine"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg1Zcg3hqjBxWIOx6FAI00G7GhBIObroEFu4JFLTjL0qvSwgmm9m_EKffgWRGdxiurao1p2VB6oUerUKI331UNoKrMzm-mCNkbSBSVCd69gg1tSo7h5F3aXD6H6hyeYSbbgHaIniS2271ld9ZarJMTHweT4DIIagrHr3EyEfOY3n_JB6Gopf-Q\/s72-c\/biden%20car%20frame.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4164337123683392522"},"published":{"$t":"2022-04-10T00:56:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-04-10T00:56:17.936-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Afghanistan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Taliban"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Sends Nearly $1 Billion to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Over two decades the United States and its international partners poured billions in humanitarian aid into Afghanistan. Much of that aid went into the pockets of the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEheUBhczlSQAtSicYLKXaUGgBeum9Daz8CisHEU18uVqdV2xLn8GFB7oIqOeJunbt1NyDV6_aJia9LxEdoxpAvHC1cAP84NMlurezkYXlK3w4j8PAsGaTaHRGfPxYe7eApi8hzXX0UCfTJMSsl58X6pli3cjrfyqgp4m_np5Kq0T7PDQH4FLbw\/s792\/taliban%20cnn.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"499\" data-original-width=\"792\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEheUBhczlSQAtSicYLKXaUGgBeum9Daz8CisHEU18uVqdV2xLn8GFB7oIqOeJunbt1NyDV6_aJia9LxEdoxpAvHC1cAP84NMlurezkYXlK3w4j8PAsGaTaHRGfPxYe7eApi8hzXX0UCfTJMSsl58X6pli3cjrfyqgp4m_np5Kq0T7PDQH4FLbw\/s320\/taliban%20cnn.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAfter Biden’s retreat, the Taliban have consolidated control over Afghanistan. And over all the hungry children, the girls deprived of an education, and all the other sob stories that kept a river of private charity and taxpayer money flowing into a hellhole in which nothing ever got better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe more things change, the more they stay the same.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt an aid conference hosted by the UN, the UK, Germany and the Islamic terror state of Qatar, which backs the Taliban, $2.4 billion was raised for Afghanistan. The hosts had demanded over $4.4 billion which would have been the largest amount ever raised for any nation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration kicked in another $204 million.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat's on top of the $782 million in \"humanitarian aid\" allocated to Afghanistan last year since the Taliban took over. This year, Biden signed an executive order allocating $3.5 billion of the Afghan assets held in the Federal Reserve for the same purpose. But even not counting those funds, Biden has dedicated $986 million to Afghanistan since the Taliban took over.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money and nearly $4.5 billion in total funds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration keeps insisting that the money won’t go to the Taliban. That’s as plausible as its previous claims that the Afghan government wouldn’t collapse, that if it did we would be ready, and that all Americans would be evacuated before Kabul fell to the enemy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no one with less credibility on Afghanistan than a member of the Biden administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden's UN ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, claimed that, \"this humanitarian aid, like all aid from the United States, will go directly to NGOs and the United Nations. The Taliban will not control our humanitarian funding.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince the Taliban control Afghanistan, they control the non-profit NGOs and the UN presence in what is now their country. Anyone who directs money into Afghanistan is funding the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/09\/10-bidens-afghanistan-aid-will-go-taliban-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003EI warned last year\u003C\/a\u003E, the Taliban have a 10% Islamic tax on income, and NGOs and even UN agencies have been paying taxes to the Taliban going \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/09\/10-bidens-afghanistan-aid-will-go-taliban-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eback as much as a decade\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban have already\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/amp\/articles\/the-taliban-want-to-control-aid-funds-a-red-line-for-donors-11648735574\"\u003E unveiled a\u003C\/a\u003E “Monitoring and Control Plan of NGOs\" which would allow the Islamic terror group to control everything that NGOs do with their aid. This is just the latest incarnation of the Taliban's old \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/09\/10-bidens-afghanistan-aid-will-go-taliban-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003ECommission for the Arrangement and Control of Companies and Organizations\u003C\/a\u003E which included NGO coordinators and which padded the pockets of the Taliban with our aid. And the Taliban have already taken to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/12\/taliban-already-seizing-humanitarian-aid-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eseizing aid\u003C\/a\u003E sent into the terror state.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the Ghor province, the Taliban ruler announced that he was taking control over the NGOs and ordered them to turn over the money and pursue whatever projects the terrorists decided were worthwhile. Those who resisted were locked up, and while the order may be temporarily in abeyance after foreign protests, the terrorists keep testing us to see what they can away with.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban have been hungry to get their hands on foreign aid, but, likely guided by their Qatari backers, they've also been clever about it. They proposed a joint body with the international community to dispense aid. When that didn't work, they went back to their usual strategy of pressuring NGOs to hire Taliban members to determine where the aid should go and who should distribute it. But that's just a matter of cutting out the middleman for more direct control.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince the NGOs rely heavily on local labor, all the Taliban have to do is intimidate Afghan employees into following their orders. And for a terror group that practices mutilation and beheading, that's not hard. Does anyone really believe that an Afghan with a wife and children living under Taliban rule is going to follow our aid guidelines rather than those of the gunmen?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban, like the Houthis in Yemen and other Islamic terror groups who both cause and profit from famines, have already been distributing and \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/opinion\/how-the-taliban-elicits-praise-from-the-communities-it-has-deprived-of-aid-55769\"\u003Etaking credit \u003C\/a\u003Efor humanitarian aid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Organization of Islamic Cooperation has also set up a \"humanitarian trust fund\" at a meeting hosted by Pakistan, a strong supporter of the Taliban, under the aegis of the Islamic Development Bank together with \"international actors\". One can only imagine where it will go.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENGOs are using Hawalas to move money into Afghanistan in order to bypass our sanctions on the Taliban. That means it's quite likely that international aid money is already crossing streams with funds being funneled to not only the Taliban, but also to Al Qaeda and ISIS-K.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd since the Taliban control Afghanistan, they're also able to tax the Hawala system which means that any money we transfer, as Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield put it, \"directly to NGOs\" and is then moved by them to Afghanistan through Hawalas will go to the Taliban.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that will be the first of a series of ways that the Taliban will profit from our humanitarian aid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHumanitarian aid remains a major asset for Islamic terrorists from Hamas in Gaza to the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Taliban in Afghanistan. While opium and rare earths are assets that require a great deal of labor and risk to exploit, foreign aid just shows up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Taliban continue to engage in diplomacy because we keep sending them money. But much as the Islamic terror group kept negotiating with us while plotting to seize the country, their willingness to engage in diplomacy doesn’t mean that they’ve become moderate. Only that the terrorists are once again playing on our naive faith in the power of international diplomacy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter two decades of funding the Taliban with our efforts to rebuild Afghanistan, we’re still at it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPortions of the nearly $1 billion in foreign aid stolen from the paychecks of American workers and the mouths of their children will be used to finance a new Jihad against Western nations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA generation after 9\/11, Americans are once again funding the terrorists who are out to kill them.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4164337123683392522\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/biden-sends-nearly-1-billion-to.html#comment-form","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4164337123683392522"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4164337123683392522"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/04\/biden-sends-nearly-1-billion-to.html","title":"Biden Sends Nearly $1 Billion to Afghanistan Since Taliban Takeover"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEheUBhczlSQAtSicYLKXaUGgBeum9Daz8CisHEU18uVqdV2xLn8GFB7oIqOeJunbt1NyDV6_aJia9LxEdoxpAvHC1cAP84NMlurezkYXlK3w4j8PAsGaTaHRGfPxYe7eApi8hzXX0UCfTJMSsl58X6pli3cjrfyqgp4m_np5Kq0T7PDQH4FLbw\/s72-c\/taliban%20cnn.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2511355018238079359"},"published":{"$t":"2022-03-24T00:03:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-03-24T00:03:00.263-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Israel"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Palestinians"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden’s Ambassador to the Anti-Israel Lobby"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EBiden’s ambassador to Israel appeared at a pro-BDS group’s webinar co-hosted by its CEO, who had described Israel as an “oppressive regime”, and told its audience that the real problem with the Palestinian Authority funding terrorism is that “it gives the ‘haters’ an excuse not to support the PA based on the argument that it is ‘paying for people who killed Jews.’”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgLWoTCu7gbGQxgAd9lOELWpPtei1mjQrrwt026BNqUQQPCdIRIaoSNYqEbHxohiPP83G5HUGNwCe3CLachigg9VW7-R3l8u1ml9-eHXudAhy6pVZ0lloHSSIfo2TowhzFShWw_4LI-FaXwKay-cCXKY5-9NcBpJBUKO-T6BsByZ93HgWU5DbU\/s981\/image_2022-03-23_170611.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"570\" data-original-width=\"981\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgLWoTCu7gbGQxgAd9lOELWpPtei1mjQrrwt026BNqUQQPCdIRIaoSNYqEbHxohiPP83G5HUGNwCe3CLachigg9VW7-R3l8u1ml9-eHXudAhy6pVZ0lloHSSIfo2TowhzFShWw_4LI-FaXwKay-cCXKY5-9NcBpJBUKO-T6BsByZ93HgWU5DbU\/s320\/image_2022-03-23_170611.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EHe also told the anti-Israel group which had cheered the Ben \u0026amp; Jerry’s boycott that, “your agenda is where my heart is.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt this rate, Thomas Nides will be hugging and kissing Hamas leaders by the end of the year.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EExpectations for Nides were already pretty low when the Biden administration announced that it had picked Obama's former deputy secretary of state as its ambassador to Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHillary Clinton was going to make Nides her chief of staff, but once Hillary in the White House became as likely as peace with Hamas and the PLO, Nides had to settle for being Biden's bully in Jerusalem while his wife who is a VP at CNN stays on in Washington D.C.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENides' main qualification for the job had been yelling “You don’t want to f***ing defund UNESCO\" at a former Israeli ambassador. He had also vocally opposed efforts to defund UNRWA and stop subsidizing the terror refugee industry. He has also served on the board of the International Rescue Committee which has repeatedly attacked Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJ Street, the anti-Israel pressure group, welcomed Nides’ nomination and announced that it “looked forward to working” with him. Other anti-Israel groups including the Israel Policy Forum and Americans for Peace Now echoed the sentiments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt didn't take long for Nides to justify their faith in his hostility to the Jewish State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarly on, Nides announced that he wanted to open an occupation consulate to the terrorists in Jerusalem, over the opposition of the Israeli government, and that he would not visit those parts of Israel wrongly described as “settlements” because they are claimed by Islamic terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \"I absolutely will not,\" he replied.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was an even more extreme position than the one adopted by Obama’s ambassador, Dan Shapiro, who had privately visited homes in those areas where many Americans live.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENides however did meet with Mansour Abbas, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s United Arab List, which played a key role in removing Netanyahu from office and replacing him with a leftist coalition government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"When it comes to Israel, I have no ideology,\" Nides had initially claimed. Then on a webinar by the anti-Israel APN group, he let his freak flag fly and admitted \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/us-ambassador-to-israel-calls-settlement-growth-infuriating-backs-a-divided-jerusalem\/\"\u003Ewhat everyone already knew\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I’m center-left,” he joked. “I’m left generally, but I put in the ‘center’ just to make myself feel better.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt got worse from there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“You have a clear agenda. I think your agenda is where my heart is,” Nides told Americans for Peace Now.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is APN’s agenda? The anti-Israel group opposes Jews living in Jerusalem, opposes anti-BDS legislation, and opposes Jews defending themselves against Islamic terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAPN CEO Hadar Susskind praised Ben \u0026amp; Jerry's decision to boycott Israel as a \"principled moral stance which we fully support\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe claimed that the Jewish outrage over Amnesty International libeling Israel as an apartheid state was “manufactured” and that the real issue is that Israel maintains an \"endemic, oppressive regime, in which the… human rights of millions of Palestinians are ruthlessly violated.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat “clear agenda” is where the rotten heart of Biden’s ambassador to Israel lies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe APN webinar was co-hosted by Susskind and teachers’ union boss Randi Weingarten. Weingarten, an APN board member, had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2021\/04\/teachers-union-boss-blasts-jews-ownership-class-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Epreviously ranted\u003C\/a\u003E that \"American Jews are now part of the ownership class... who now want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those who do not have it” when asked by a Jewish journalist if unions like hers had too much power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWeingarten's lover, Sharon Kleinbaum, had faced a member revolt over her\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/rabbis-hamas-obama-and-iran-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E extreme anti-Israel views \u003C\/a\u003Ewhich included reading the names of dead Hamas terrorists alongside Israeli casualties from the pulpit, and providing space to Queers Against Israeli Apartheid.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden has since appointed Kleinbaum to the Commission on International Religious Freedom despite her support for Cuomo’s discrimination against Orthodox Jews during the pandemic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo this gathering of antisemites was old home week for a member of the Biden administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENides told Susskind and Weingarten that he and Biden \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/us-ambassador-to-israel-calls-settlement-growth-infuriating-backs-a-divided-jerusalem\/\"\u003Ewanted to divide\u003C\/a\u003E Jerusalem and that \"my job is to knock down things that make that possibility impossible.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe leading thing to knock down would be the Jewish State.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENides ranted that his priority was fighting to prevent Jews from living in those parts of Jerusalem that had been captured by invading Muslim armies in 1948 and were liberated from their occupiers in 1967 during the Six Day War.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We can't have the Israelis doing settlement growth, both in East Jerusalem or the West Bank,\" Nides \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/324077\"\u003Ewhined\u003C\/a\u003E. He failed to explain how Jews living in the city of King David and King Solomon, of Jewish kings and prophets, could be occupying \"settlements\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I can’t stop everything, just so we’re clear, I have to pick my battles,” Nides told his anti-Israel audience at the APN webinar. “E-1 was a disaster, I went full bore on E-1.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EE-1 would begin at Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Perhaps Nides would also like to evict the Jews who have been buried there for thousands of years for also being “settlers”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENides \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-701410\"\u003Eapologized \u003C\/a\u003Eto his Americans for Peace Now audience for not being able to stop every Jew from living in Jerusalem. “I’d be lying to you if every single house… in east Jerusalem or the West Bank I could stop… I can’t stop everything, just so we are clear.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \"I'm a bit of a nag on this, including the idea of settlement growth – which infuriates me,\" Nides fumed, as if he were the proconsul of an occupying regime tasked with policing the natives rather than a diplomatic envoy dispatched by an ally to cooperate on regional security.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few years ago, Congress passed the Taylor Force Act. The law was named after Taylor Force: an American military veteran murdered in Tel Aviv by an Islamic terrorists. The Palestinian Authority, the PLO government in Ramallah, treated Force's killer as one of its fighters and put his family on a generous pension. This 'Pay to Slay' program pays out millions to imprisoned Islamic terrorists or their families as a reward for killing Jews. The Taylor Force Act cut off a lot of American subsidies to the PLO until such a time as it stopped funding terrorism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENides used the PLO term for 'Pay to Slay', describing them as \"martyr payments\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIslamic terrorists describe their crimes as \"martyrdom\", an American ambassador should use the term \"terrorism\" instead of talking like a Jihadist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden’s ambassador\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-701410\"\u003E further claimed \u003C\/a\u003Ethat the issue with, \"these martyr payments” is that they      ”have caused an enormous amount of problems’ because it gives the ‘haters’ an excuse not to support the PA based on the argument that it is ‘paying for people who killed Jews.’”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERather than vocally condemn the PLO for subsidizing the murder of Americans and Jews, Nides only appeared to be concerned that the terror payments were an “excuse” for Jewish “haters” to cut off funding to the terrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's no wonder that he recently \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usambisrael\/status\/1504023397843582977?s=24\"\u003Etweeted\u003C\/a\u003E, \"Pleased to see lots for Palestinians in the budget just signed by @POTUS Biden: $144 million increase (now $219 million) for Economic Support Funds, $40 million for security forces training in the WBank, and $50 million for 2nd year of the Nita Lowey MEPPA Fund.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/zoa.org\/2022\/03\/10445542-zoa-condemns-u-s-amb-to-israel-nides-calling-israel-jews-who-legally-build-homes-in-jerusalem-judea-samaria-stupid-infuriating\/\"\u003Ehas condemned\u003C\/a\u003E Nides' webinar with APN stating that a \"U.S. official should not be legitimizing the pro-BDS group Peace Now.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EZOA President Morton A. Klein declared that he \"strongly condemns U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides’ immoral, anti-Jewish, discriminatory anti-Israel statements\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately Nides is characteristic of the anti-Israel Biden administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Americans for Peace Now webinar was co-hosted by Randi Weingarten, a close ally of the Biden administration. Beyond Weingarten, the APN board includes top lefty digital campaigner Mik Moore, top leftist donor Danny Goldberg, HRW's Kathleen Peratis, Christine Blasey Ford lawyer Debra Katz, and other Democrat political establishment figures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENides knew exactly whom he was talking to and who his real audience at this event was.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch as when Stuart Eizenstat, contacted Jake Sullivan, currently Biden's National Security Advisor but then Hillary's foreign policy advisor, using Nides as his referral, and telling the Clinton campaign, \"I am respected by the J Street group\" and vouching that he had convinced the Israeli ambassador \"to end the Israeli Embassy boycott of J Street\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe anti-Israel establishment controls the Democrats. Any ambassador to Israel is going to be vetted by them. Nides wasn’t picked by Biden, he was picked by J Street, APN, and other anti-Israel hate groups. His job isn’t to build relations with Israel, but with its haters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETom Nides is not the ambassador to Israel. He’s the ambassador to the anti-Israel lobby.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2511355018238079359\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/bidens-ambassador-to-anti-israel-lobby.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2511355018238079359"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2511355018238079359"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/bidens-ambassador-to-anti-israel-lobby.html","title":"Biden’s Ambassador to the Anti-Israel Lobby"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgLWoTCu7gbGQxgAd9lOELWpPtei1mjQrrwt026BNqUQQPCdIRIaoSNYqEbHxohiPP83G5HUGNwCe3CLachigg9VW7-R3l8u1ml9-eHXudAhy6pVZ0lloHSSIfo2TowhzFShWw_4LI-FaXwKay-cCXKY5-9NcBpJBUKO-T6BsByZ93HgWU5DbU\/s72-c\/image_2022-03-23_170611.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2576563525824813276"},"published":{"$t":"2022-03-20T02:35:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-03-20T02:35:48.550-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"9\/11"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Al Qaeda"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Islamic terrorism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Biden Tries to Cut a Deal to Spare 9\/11 Mastermind the Death Penalty"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003EBiden recently released Mohammed al-Qahtani, the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/point\/2022\/02\/biden-frees-20th-hijacker-go-saudi-5-star-terror-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E20th 9\/11 hijacker\u003C\/a\u003E, and Zuhail al-Sharabi, another hijacker for an \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/01\/biden-frees-alternate-911-hijacker-and-military-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Eexpanded version of the 9\/11 attacks\u003C\/a\u003E from Guantanamo Bay, so it's only fitting that he's trying to cut a plea deal with the mastermind of the attacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhN_VtbvXmcKukrUr2DvRe3xMLHoQQDcG2UoaatpOune2bgv1KHhVVD70hBCSmbm77F_PBQL8xiRNIipMbQHyaP6-B_vRGJd0SN5hRCTj_FotN308pKaQiN9-KxR5_8x_Fznw7eKWOrm53I2X0C7hiZZ0ZBq1N7-MM1Z2KsFHhkXXmsU40rvjs=s1200\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"783\" data-original-width=\"1200\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhN_VtbvXmcKukrUr2DvRe3xMLHoQQDcG2UoaatpOune2bgv1KHhVVD70hBCSmbm77F_PBQL8xiRNIipMbQHyaP6-B_vRGJd0SN5hRCTj_FotN308pKaQiN9-KxR5_8x_Fznw7eKWOrm53I2X0C7hiZZ0ZBq1N7-MM1Z2KsFHhkXXmsU40rvjs=s320\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the September 11 attacks, not to mention multiple other plots and acts of terror including the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the brutal murder of Daniel Pearl, was captured in March 2003.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E19 years later the trial has yet to go anywhere.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2008, the process of charging Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others began.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnfortunately a year later, the pro-terrorist administration of Barack Hussein Obama took office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAttorney General Eric Holder announced that he wanted to bring Mohammed to a civilian court in New York. The backlash, especially from the families of 9\/11 victims, was tremendous and the Obama administration overruled Holder. However Holder injected a poison pill into the system by going after the use of material gained through the terrorist leader's interrogations and even from a “Clean Team” that independently obtained a confession from Mohammed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“It’s a statement about what this Administration is about,” Holder boasted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs if anyone needed further reminding of what the Obama administration was really about.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter that everyone settled in for a decade of lawfare by Mohammed’s lawyers who carefully sabotaged any effort to move the case forward by demanding classified information involving the system set up to stop, capture and interrogate Islamic terrorists. And their client and his legal allies followed the Al Qaeda lawfare playbook by making all sorts of frivolous complaints, such as objecting to the presence of female personnel, to drag out the case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETheir game plan was to get the government to settle. And they almost made it once before.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA previous effort to cut a plea deal with Mohammed was thrown out when Attorney General Jeff Sessions demanded that military prosecutors cut out any such nonsense. But now it’s back.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe trial of Mohammed and other terrorists involved in the 9\/11 attacks finally began in 2021 and after a series of hearings was shut down again due to the pandemic before being restarted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration has been aggressively pressuring the Department of Defense to shut down Guantanamo Bay and free all the terrorists. Mohammed and his legal allies understand that, like Obama, Biden wants to empty Gitmo. The 9\/11 mastermind has effectively used that in the past by demanding that he serve out his sentence in Gitmo instead of in Colorado.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMohammed and his legal defenders claimed that Gitmo was a better place for Muslims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven though Mohammed had confessed several times already, a plea deal would have the terror boss trade a guilty plea in exchange for prosecutors dropping the death penalty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAttorney General Eric Holder had promised that Mohammed would receive the death penalty. Numerous politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, assured 9\/11 families he would. But Mohammed understood that, like his Taliban allies, all he had to do was wait out America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAmericans would care less about the September 11 attacks with every year that passed. The families of those who were killed in the Islamic terrorist attacks would grow old or die. The political and military systems would grow tired of jumping through legal hoops and surrender.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that is exactly what’s happening.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Obama administration warped the morale and patriotic fiber of portions of the military. Court officials who were once disgusted to even be dealing with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Al Qaeda terrorists have been replaced by those who now ferociously advocate for them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt the Gitmo trial of an Al Qaeda terrorist last year, military officials serving as a jury sent a shameful letter whining that the terrorist's interrogation was a \"stain on the moral fiber of America\" and \"a source of shame.” The only stain here was in their treasonous cowardly letter and the only source of shame is that those who wrote it are still employed by the military.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Biden administration is betting that it can cut a plea deal and clear the Mohammed case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut in 2009, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow terrorists had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CREC-2009-03-17\/html\/CREC-2009-03-17-pt1-PgS3124.htm\"\u003Ealready entered\u003C\/a\u003E their \"Islamic\" response to the charges against them which declared that \"killing you and fighting you, destroying you and terrorizing you\" are \"considered to be great legitimate duty in our religion.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETerrorism, the Islamic response explained, was an \"offering\" to Allah. It described the \"blessed 11 September operation\" as \"our military attack\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s an official confession without any duress whatsoever.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Islamic response also admitted that even without any of the named pretexts, \"it would have been the greatest religious duty to fight you over your infidelity.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis infidelity was defined as “your statement that Allah had a son and your trinity beliefs.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAl Qaeda would have been at war with America simply because it’s a Christian country.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Our prophet was victorious because of fear,\" the response boasted. \"Our religion is a religion of fear and terror to the enemies of Allah: the Jews, Christians, and pagans. With Allah's wiling, we are terrorists to the bone.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt concluded by declaring, \"Your end is very near and your fall will be just as the fall of the towers on the blessed 9\/11 day.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA country that still had any dignity left would have responded by stringing Mohammed and all the rest of them up. Instead another decade of legal wrangling and lawfare followed as military prosecutors and judges continue to insist that they have no idea how to try and convict him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EKhalid Sheikh Mohammed had confessed his crimes multiple times.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 1942, with the war underway, Nazi saboteurs brought here by submarine were arrested by the FBI. They were caught in June, tried in July, and sent to the electric chair in August.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that was for enemy operatives who had not even managed to kill a single American.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile after 19 years of having the mastermind of the murder of thousands of Americans in custody, he has yet to be convicted and is unlikely now to pay the price for his crimes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe military court system, which was meant to expedite the trials and convictions of terrorists as enemy insurgents during wartime, not criminal defendants protected by the Constitution, has been corrupted and broken. It needs to be replaced. But that is not likely to happen until the next phase of the war against Islamic terrorism is underway.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile the political and cultural allies of the Islamists are running our government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama sabotaged the process of bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to justice and now, just as with the Taliban and Iran, Biden is finishing the criminal betrayal that his boss began.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-size: medium;\"\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2576563525824813276\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/biden-tries-to-cut-deal-to-spare-911.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2576563525824813276"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2576563525824813276"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2022\/03\/biden-tries-to-cut-deal-to-spare-911.html","title":"Biden Tries to Cut a Deal to Spare 9\/11 Mastermind the Death Penalty"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEhN_VtbvXmcKukrUr2DvRe3xMLHoQQDcG2UoaatpOune2bgv1KHhVVD70hBCSmbm77F_PBQL8xiRNIipMbQHyaP6-B_vRGJd0SN5hRCTj_FotN308pKaQiN9-KxR5_8x_Fznw7eKWOrm53I2X0C7hiZZ0ZBq1N7-MM1Z2KsFHhkXXmsU40rvjs=s72-c","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}}]}});