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“Until last week, the Biden administration considered its approach
to the region a success,” notes Eli Lake at The Free Press. “After
this weekend, the administration’s Middle East strategy is in
tatters.” Blame “the self-delusion among our foreign policy establishment.” Recall that in 2021, Biden’s State Department
“sought to release more than $360 million to Palestine despite
concerns that at least some of it would go to Hamas.” And now the administration “has done a deal with Hamas’s most powerful and
important patron,” Iran. The real delusion? “The one that has led so
many in the U.S. foreign policy establishment to think that with
enough patience, engagement, and money, fanatical regimes like those
in Tehran and Gaza can be enticed to join the civilized world.”

“Shoplifting has become an epidemic,” frets The Wall Street
Journal’s William McGurn. Thieves “no longer need to hide their behavior.” “Shops themselves forbid staff” to stop them. “Organized criminal enterprises recruit drug addicts” to steal, and “smash-
and-grab mobs overwhelm store employees.” “It’s all a product of a growing social dysfunction born of the abandonment of broken-windows policing.” Indeed, today, “quality-of-life offenses,” like “treating
a sidewalk like a toilet,” are no longer enforced; “lawlessness has
become routine.” “The law-abiding and lawbreaking alike know that
the cops aren’t coming to the rescue.” Worst of all, shoplifting is
“only one part of today’s urban dysfunction.”

Gov. Hochul “made a nice end-run around one of the state’s messiest bureaucracies” when she OK’d letting bars serve Buffalo Bills fans
last Sunday morning as the team played in London, but Albany “still
needs to get serious” about New York’s archaic liquor rules,
grumbles the Empire Center’s Ken Girardin. The State Liquor
Authority “regulates virtually every facet of alcohol sales and consumption”; business owners are “reluctant to criticize the SLA”
for fear of losing their livelihoods. Last year, Hochul “called for
a ‘policy-neutral’ overhaul of liquor laws” to make it “easier for businesses to comply” with SLA regulations, yet a state commission
composed of industry players opposed any “meaningful” reform — with
one member noting, “the current system works great!” Businesses “struggling to survive” — and so “fearful of criticizing it publicly — would beg to differ.”

“A whole lot of people are proudly, loudly announcing for all the
world to see that either they see the state of Israel and its people
as the moral equivalent of the butchers of Hamas, or they outright
are rooting for Hamas,” thunders National Review’s Jim Geraghty. The Democratic Socialists of America “insist that the Hamas massacres of civilians were ‘not unprovoked.’ ” Asks Geraghty, “What did that Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair who was dragged off to Gaza do to ‘provoke’ Hamas, other than exist in a world where a whole bunch of
hateful maniacs wish they could eradicate the Jews?” Rep. Ilhan Omar
and the rest of The Squad “couldn’t come out and say, ‘You should
not massacre kids. You should not rape women. You should not parade
kidnapped children before cameras.’ This is the most basic moral
test imaginable.”


— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/bidenites-disastrous-delusions- flunking-a-basic-moral-test-and-other-commentary/

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