Perhaps you have noticed the leftist navel-gazers trying to steer conversation about Hamas terrorists into a debate on whether or not Israeli babies were decapitated.
It’s a quintessential example of the rhetorical essence of navel-gazing — obsessing over details at the expense of the big picture.
This sort of thinking explains why snowflakes on college campuses curl up in the fetal position sucking their thumbs should someone use the wrong pronoun, but they don’t give a whit about the real issues of the world.
Stolen elections. Porous borders. Crippling federal debt. Out of control crime. Outright fabrications designed to inflame racial tensions. Suspect politicians. All of these pale in comparison to the micro aggression of failure to observe preferred pronoun protocol.
The journalist who first reported the infant decapitations stood by her words Wednesday. Just yesterday, Bumbling Biden said in the public comments that there had been decapitations of babies and it was disgusting. These comments were walked back by his staff as soon as Biden had stumbled off for yet another nap.
But, in the final analysis, does it really matter? The babies were killed, by heathens hiding under the false flag of religious fervor. If the babies are dead, with heads still intact, they still are victims of abject slaughter.
Skeptics cry for photographic evidence. I’m not sure about you, but I’m not up to viewing shots of decapitated babies. I do believe the reporting of decapitations. This is, after all, a favored technique of Middle Eastern terrorists. Perhaps you recall the videotape terrorists provided when they beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.
There are many other examples since then that could be cited.
But I don’t need for there to have been decapitations to be disgusted and hopeful that the Israeli forces can wreak vengeance to Nth degree on those responsible for this attack on civilians. We can agree people died, I hope.
If that quest for vengeance leads to Iran, which most observers, other than our Iran-loving leadership, feel is a given, then so be it.
As written here yesterday, this Hamas attack is a litmus test for civility and humanity. The heartless, morally bankrupt types who back Hamas have identified themselves as being on the wrong side of the matter. The rest of us have the moral high ground.
It truly is, as White House mouthpiece Gay Paree noted earlier this week, that simple. There is no middle ground. You either see this for the wanton breach of common decency that it was, or you condemn yourself to having your opinions on critical issues never again being taken seriously.
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