Jan. 12, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
03:24
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| Wall Street Journal reports Biden endangers U.S. troops. | |
| American service members are hurt now on somewhat of a regular basis as U.S. bases become enemy drone catchers. | |
| It was bound to happen sooner or later. | |
| American service members would be seriously hurt as Iran-backed militias conduct lethal target practice against U.S. bases in the Middle East. | |
| When will President Biden do his duty as commander-in-chief and protect Americans deployed abroad? | |
| Iranian proxies have attacked U.S. forces in the Middle East about 100 times in October, November, December. | |
| And in the last week of December, an explosive drone made it past U.S. defenses at a base in Iraq. | |
| Two Americans were wounded, and a third is in critical condition. | |
| The National Security Council's Adrienne Watson issued a statement announcing the reprisal and insisted that "the president places no higher priority than the protection of American personnel serving in harm's way." Boy, it was that boilerplate, as lawyers say, about pre-existing copy that's put in a letter. | |
| This is demonstrably false, and the bromide is insulting, writes the Wall Street Journal. | |
| Mr. Biden's highest priority, whispered by the White House every day, is avoiding escalation with Iran or its proxies. | |
| Mr. Biden is afraid, we use that word advisedly, of being involved in a larger conflict which might not be popular in an election year. | |
| The U.S. hasn't punished the Houthis for taking the world economy hostage because of their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, though the U.S. knows the location of Houthi launch sites, radars, weapons, and military leadership. | |
| That's astonishing. | |
| We know where all of them are. | |
| The Houthis are betting the U.S. and friends lack the political will to punish their piracy. | |
| That's a bet I would make, too. | |
| Well, the news is relentless. | |
| So what is happening? | |
| Our Secretary of Defense is missing. | |
| He went missing. | |
| Is that amazing? | |
| With all this going on, the war in Gaza? | |
| And the Secretary of Defense of the United States of America was missing. | |
| No one knew, maybe his family did, no one knew where he was. | |
| He was having surgery. | |
| He didn't tell anybody. | |
| And how is it that nobody cared? | |
| Does the President meet with the Secretary of Defense? | |
| It's painful. | |
| It is painful. | |
| In whose hands Americans allegedly, or hopefully, honestly, put the country. |
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