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If you didn’t recognize that the folks who tally Columbia deliberation the aforesaid arsenic the ones moving Biden overseas policy, see their shared, feckless religion successful “de-escalation” and finger-waving.
Just arsenic with President Biden’s well-worn don’t’s to America’s enemies, Columbia prez Minouche Shafik has issued a bevy of toothless warnings to the students occupying the field quad — and present Hamilton Hall.
Shafik astatine archetypal showed backbone by calling the NYPD to wide the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” connected April 18 and suspending a twelve oregon truthful students, but past her fortitude faltered.
Columbia reversed astir of the suspensions, fto protesters physique an adjacent larger 2nd encampment little than 24 hours later and told students that it wouldn’t evict them again, nor telephone successful the cops.
The message: We’re truthful atrocious we punished you for violating schoolhouse policy; delight please please play nice.
Then followed a week of “dialogue” and a bid of ever-postponed deadlines, until Shafik connected Monday told protesters to wide disconnected the main tract by 2 p.m. oregon look repercussions.
Naturally, they stayed enactment — and lo, nary physical repercussions ensued.
Instead, Columbia began doling retired suspensions (it says), but not really hauling immoderate students disconnected the field they nary longer had immoderate close to beryllium connected astatine all, fto on successful amerciable tents.
And truthful the protesters escalated: Early Tuesday, a radical broke into Hamilton Hall by smashing done the windows and hung a emblem speechmaking “intifada” from the roof.
The students consciousness escaped to transverse Shafik’s lines successful progressively belligerent ways due to the fact that she’s fto them, again and again.
Remind you of anyone?
Biden has spent much than three years “de-escalating” with Iran: dropping Trump-era sanctions, paying immense bribes for hostage releases, begging Tehran to re-enter the Obama atomic woody . . .
And Tehran has watched arsenic Biden played Russia’s menace to Ukraine with that aforesaid “escalation phobia”: In advance, lone threatening Moscow with sanctions alternatively than rushing arms to Kyiv, past refusing to nonstop the invaded federation the airpower and large weapons systems it astir needs — portion lecturing it against immoderate attacks connected the territory of the aggressor.
Iran drew the logical decision that it’d beryllium harmless to springiness Hamas the thumb’s-up for the Oct. 7 panic attacks connected Israel, and so Biden has ever since refused to look the ample grounds that Iran’s fingerprints were each implicit those atrocities — contempt the American citizens killed and taken hostage that day.
When Iran ordered its proxies crossed the Mideast to commencement attacking US bases, Biden took weeks to respond — and then, lone against the proxies; meantime helium handed Tehran yet more sanctions relief.
And erstwhile Iran started telegraphing its caller onslaught connected Israel, the prez lamely warned the mullahs not to onslaught Israel with different pathetic don’t.
The adjacent day, Iran launched a barrage of 300 rocket and drone strikes.
Our president had US forces assistance support Israel, but helium did thing to marque Iran wage — indeed, counseled Israel against responding, seeing that arsenic “escalation” alternatively than an perfectly necessary.
We expect that Shafik volition yet bash something to instrumentality backmost her campus, oregon beryllium forced retired of bureau by an embarrassed committee that’s present proceeding the fury of Democratic congressmen.
Unfortunately, Biden volition support connected “de-escalating” successful America’s sanction astatine slightest done adjacent January; we’re trying not to contemplate however overmuch the nation’s enemies volition escalate earlier he’s gone.
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