Liberal: No Easy Return to Iran Deal
The New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman warns Joe Biden, “This is not the Middle East you left four years ago.” President Trump’s “most significant foreign-policy achievement” was forcing “Israel and the key Sunni Arab states to become less reliant on the United States” and “cooperate among themselves over new threats — like Iran — rather than fighting over old causes — like Palestine.” The “prospect of Iran having a nuke is not what keeps them up at night,” because using it would “be suicide, and Iran’s clerical leaders are not suicidal. They are, though, homicidal,” and Tehran’s “new preferred weapons for homicide” are precision-guided missiles. Iran’s neighbors will balk if Biden gives up “the leverage of extreme economic sanctions” before using it “to secure some commitment to end Iran’s export of these missiles” to its proxies. Those hoping to see a quick return to the nuclear deal should “keep the champagne in the fridge.”
From the right: Schools Woke But Broke
Dozens of elite schools across the country are sparing no expense for diversity transformation, so “the perceived need to announce sweeping changes in leadership and curricula has been a boon to the growing diversity-consulting industry, which is designed to profit from racial discontent,” reports The Washington Free Beacon’s Charles Fain Lehman. It’s a nice gig, if you can get it: The wokeness urge perpetuates “witch hunts,” impelling schools to hire more diversity experts, and as “accusations of racism and bigotry only grow,” they fuel still more demands “for new positions and pricier consultants.” And all the schools get in return are outrageous reports suggesting that practices like “averaging grades over a semester or grading homework unacceptably perpetuate inequality.” But the real agenda is clear: “Teachers and administrators press an increasingly progressive line, agitating students into demanding ever more change” in hopes of ballooning their own budgets and one day joining the ranks of overpaid consultants.
Israeli centrist: Obama’s Revisionism
Barack Obama’s new memoir “is filled with historical inaccuracies,” charges Israeli politico Dov Lipman at JNS.org. The ex-president claims that Britain was occupying Palestine when it issued the Balfour Declaration in support of a Jewish national home in the Jews’ historic homeland. That framing undermines Britain’s “legitimacy to determine anything about the future of the Holy Land” — when, in fact, the League of Nations granted London a mandate to determine Palestine’s fate after World War I and specifically recognized a Jewish right to a homeland there. Obama’s omission “misinforms the reader, who will conclude that the movement for a Jewish state in Palestine had no legitimacy or international consent.”
Education beat: Bailing Out ‘Brahmins’
Lefty economist Thomas Piketty calls the educated voters liberal parties have gained worldwide the “Brahmin left,” Zaid Jilani notes in The Wall Street Journal — adding that “a blanket forgiveness of student debt would be a Brahmin bailout” that wouldn’t “help the workers who once formed the backbone of the Democratic Party.” Contra Sen. Elizabeth Warren, it would be no economic stimulus: As lefties like Matt Bruenig point out, it would leave “households with no extra liquid cash to spend.” And since college degrees translate to higher income, Jilani warns, the move mainly gives “economic benefits to the upper class.” Other ideas, like making schools liable for part of debt that students can’t repay, address the problem without “a large transfer of income to some of the wealthiest people.”
Conservative: Down With Libertarians
“Everyone knew some husky chap in college who smelled like onions and called himself a libertarian,” snarks Michael Warren Davis at Spectator USA. Now a few thousand of those Ayn Rand- and Hayek-obsessed chaps have “spoiled the election” for President Trump by throwing their support behind the hopeless Libertarian nominee. “Of course, some of these neckbeards may be pleased with the result. They surely knew [their candidate] wouldn’t win but might have felt that Mr. Biden came nearer to the libertarian ideal than Mr. Trump. Some people also drink gasoline. And they all get a vote.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
The Link LonkDecember 01, 2020 at 06:40AM
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