Dennis Prager Show - What Happened at the ISIS Attack In Moscow?
Aired: 2024-03-29
Duration: 09:56


=== Revived ISIS Threat (05:07) ===

[00:00:01]  A revived ISIS rampages in Moscow.
[00:00:07]  Wall Street Journal, one of the most coherent pages, along with the Telegraph in Britain.
[00:00:14]  A revived ISIS rampages in Moscow.
[00:00:18]  By the way, why is ISIS revived?
[00:00:21]  Because Biden left Afghanistan, that's why.
[00:00:30]  Did he do anything good?
[00:00:36]  If you take the word good seriously, I can't think of anything.
[00:00:48]  To all the other security risks in the world, you can add the return of Islamic State as a killing machine.
[00:00:56]  Think of Hamas, Hezbollah.
[00:01:00]  Boko Haram, ISIS. Do you realize how many Muslim murder machines there are?
[00:01:10]  Slaughter machines.
[00:01:15]  And do you realize how cowardly most of the media are?
[00:01:19]  They're just cowards because cowardice is the dominant human characteristic.
[00:01:25]  More than any other crappy characteristic of the human being, cowardice.
[00:01:30]  is the most dominant.
[00:01:33]  People are afraid to say, look at all the Muslim murder machines out there.
[00:01:42]  If there were Jews or these were Christians, that's what they would say.
[00:01:47]  The left excuses Israel of genocide, one of the great lies on earth.
[00:01:55]  Pure lie.
[00:01:57]  Pure.
[00:02:00]  But anything repeated enough is believed.
[00:02:07]  Russians were the victims on Friday as gunmen attacked civilians at a Moscow concert venue, killing at least 133. ISIS suicide bombers killed more than 80 in Iran in January.
[00:02:21]  And no one should doubt that the jihadists are looking to target Americans sooner or later.
[00:02:29]  And by the way, are any of them already here through the southern border?
[00:02:37]  Blaming Ukraine now helps Mr. Putin distract attention from his earlier dismissal of what has now cost so many innocent lives.
[00:02:46]  And it deflects from the fact that Russian security was so inept that the killers could rampage for an hour at the Russian capital and somehow escape in a car.
[00:02:57]  I mean, that's really something.
[00:02:59]  That's the capital city of a country.
[00:03:04]  ISIS, which has revived with a sanctuary in Afghanistan since President Biden's 2021 withdrawal.
[00:03:15]  The ISIS-Khorasan branch competes with the Taliban, oh, I forgot to mention them, and Al-Qaeda.
[00:03:26]  Let's say there were a group of Christians that did this.
[00:03:30]  A group of Christians slaughtered 133 innocent people somewhere.
[00:03:39]  you realize that Christians would be running, not walking, to the nearest media microphone to denounce it, to say what a disgrace this is to the Christian message.
[00:03:54]  The ISIS-Khorasan branch competes with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda for jihadist supremacy.
[00:04:07]  By the way, you know how you attain jihadist supremacy?
[00:04:10]  By slaughtering the most innocents.
[00:04:15]  That's it.
[00:04:15]  That's how you attain it.
[00:04:18]  But the Taliban lacks the ability and perhaps the desire to eliminate ISIS in Afghanistan.
[00:04:25]  Unworried about a U.S. attack on its hideouts, ISIS leaders can focus on planning attacks against foreigners as they have in Iran and now Moscow.
[00:04:38]  So, as you know, I read comments to most articles that I read.
[00:04:43]  So here's a comment I thought I'd share with you from a Wall Street Journal subscriber.
[00:04:49]  Under Trump's presidency, ISIS was defeated and the southern border was secure.

=== Two Propositions on Gaza (04:22) ===

[00:04:56]  By reversing all of Trump's policies, Biden has unleashed worldwide chaos.
[00:05:04]  Correct?
[00:05:07]  That is exactly right.
[00:05:12]  To my pleasant surprise, the New York Times' David Brooks, who has been moving away from Every generation,
[00:05:42]  every age, seems to have a morally clarifying moment.
[00:05:49]  If you didn't realize how evil communism was during the Cold War, It said a great deal about you.
[00:05:57]  If you're anti-Israel now, it says a great deal about you.
[00:06:01]  At best, you're morally confused.
[00:06:04]  At worst, you are the useful idiot for evil.
[00:06:12]  He begins, There seems to be a broad consensus atop the Democratic Party about the war in Gaza, structured around two propositions.
[00:06:23]  First, after the attacks, by the way, did you see...
[00:06:26]  Did you see the comments?
[00:06:37]  They almost all disagreed with David Brooks.
[00:06:41]  He doesn't represent the New York Times readership.
[00:06:45]  The two propositions.
[00:06:47]  First, after the attacks of October 7th, Israel has the right to defend itself and defeat Hamas.
[00:06:52]  Second, the way Israel is doing this is over the top, in President Biden's words.
[00:06:58]  In other words, these are the two propositions of the Democratic Party.
[00:07:01]  Of course Israel has the right to defend itself, but it's gone too far.
[00:07:07]  What it should do is lose.
[00:07:10]  That's what it means.
[00:07:11]  That's the gist of his article, and that's the gist of truth.
[00:07:15]  Israel should lose.
[00:07:18]  The vast numbers of dead and starving children are gut-wrenching, the devastation is overwhelming, and it's hard not to see it all as indiscriminate.
[00:07:25]  Which leads to an obvious question.
[00:07:28]  If the current Israeli military approach is inhumane, what is the alternative?
[00:07:34]  Is there a better military strategy Israel can use to defeat Hamas without a civilian bloodbath?
[00:07:41]  In recent weeks, I've been talking with security and urban warfare experts and others studying Israel's approach and scouring foreign policy and security journals in search of such ideas.
[00:07:53]  I will say this about David Brooks.
[00:07:55]  He does his research.
[00:07:56]  He reads a lot.
[00:08:01]  The thorniest reality that comes up is that this war is like few others because the crucial theater is underground.
[00:08:11]  Before the war, Israelis estimated Hamas had dug around 100 miles of tunnels.
[00:08:17]  Hamas leaders claimed they had a much more expansive network and it turns out they were telling the truth.
[00:08:24]  The current Israeli estimates range from 350 to about 500 miles of tunnels.
[00:08:33]  The tunnel network, according to Israel, is where Hamas lives, holds hostages Stores weapons, builds missiles, and moves from place to place.
[00:08:44]  By some Israeli estimates, building these tunnels cost the Gazan people about a billion dollars, which could have gone to building schools and starting companies.
[00:08:57]  So why did Hamas spend a billion dollars on tunnels?

=== Leftists Without Compassion (00:54) ===

[00:09:04]  Because they have only one interest.
[00:09:08]  Killing Jews and destroying Israel.
[00:09:12]  That's it.
[00:09:13]  That's their interest.
[00:09:14]  They have no interest in building up Gaza.
[00:09:17]  Every supporter of Hamas needs to know that.
[00:09:22]  And when they do know it, it doesn't matter to them.
[00:09:25]  Because they don't care a damn about Palestinians.
[00:09:28]  They hate Israel.
[00:09:32]  That is the leftist modus operandi.
[00:09:35]  Communists didn't care about workers.
[00:09:37]  Feminists don't care.
[00:09:39]  The feminist organizations don't care about women.
[00:09:42]  LGBTQ organizations don't care about LGBTQ. They're just leftists.
[00:09:47]  That's why there are queers for Palestine.
[00:09:50]  Palestinians kill queers.
[00:09:52]  But they're still for Palestine because they're leftists before they're pro-gay.