Harris-Biden response to Hamas reveals a lack of American national pride
Famously, a message from Theodore Roosevelt’s Secretary of State John Hay electrified the 1904 Republican convention: “This Government wants Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead.”
Ion Perdicaris, a wealthy Greek-American, had been kidnapped in Morocco by a bandit named Ahmed al-Raisuli.
Hay’s line served as an ultimatum to bring the affair, after the deployment of the US Navy to Morocco and drawn-out negotiations, to a conclusion.
We’ve come a long way from the time when the kidnapping of one American, whose citizenship was actually a little murky, elicited a thunderous reaction as a matter of national principle.
Needless to say, no one is ever going to mistake Joe Biden for TR, one of the most compelling figures in American history, but the president couldn’t be a better representative of our attenuated sense of national honor.
A terrorist group killed and kidnapped American citizens and is still holding them in horrific conditions, and the US government has been doing a tap dance between the terrorists and an Israeli government fighting and bleeding to try to save them.
US officials condemn Hamas, yet there is none of the righteous fury one would expect of a government whose citizens have been subjected to such grotesque mistreatment.
When Hamas murdered Hersh Goldberg-Polin in cold blood, President Biden blamed Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for his recalcitrance in negotiations — even though Hamas took the hostages, Hamas has refused to release them, Hamas has a policy of killing them if there is some chance they could get rescued, and Hamas threatens to do the same again.
We’ve imposed no significant consequences on Iran for its sponsorship of a terror group with American blood on its hands.
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