Barely an hour after Israel confirmed it had , Hamas鈥� leader and the architect of the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, the Very Smart People in Washington, DC jumped in with helpful advice.
鈥淚srael,鈥� former ambassador and Clinton confidante Dennis Ross , 鈥渟hould say it will end the war.鈥�
Vice President Kamala Harris agreed. A few hours later, she delivered a brief saying the exact same thing: 鈥淭his moment gives us an opportunity to finally end the war in Gaza.鈥�
Others in the thicket of Democrat-friendly think tanks jumped in to amplify the same message: Now that the bad guy is dead, Israel should lay down its arms and engage in peaceful diplomatic negotiations.
It鈥檚 a talking point we鈥檙e likely to hear more and more these coming days 鈥� and it鈥檚 wrong, warped, stupid and dangerous.
It doesn鈥檛 really take a Churchill to understand why.
Just look at the instantly iconic picture of the slain Sinwar, laying lifeless in the rubble as three robust Israeli soldiers tower over his soot-covered corpse, and you鈥檒l realize that Washington鈥檚 insistence on diplomacy at any cost is nonsense: Sometimes, war is precisely the answer.
And sometimes, especially when you鈥檙e fighting a genocidal terror group hell-bent on raping your women, beheading your children and eliminating every last civilian, you can鈥檛 and shouldn鈥檛 stop until you win.
Not that you鈥檇 get any of that if you listened to Team Biden-Harris.
鈥淲e have got to reach a cease-fire,鈥� the vice president told reporters just last week.
鈥淲e鈥檝e got to de-escalate.鈥�
It wasn鈥檛 just talk: As Israelis were struggling with more deadly Hezbollah rockets and ongoing attacks from Hamas in Gaza, the Biden administration of cutting off weapons shipments to Israel, increased pressure on Jerusalem to refrain from a major attack on Iran and repeated the mantra, best expressed earlier this year by National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, that a cease-fire is 鈥渢he only credible path forward.鈥�
If you want to know how things turn out for those who take the administration鈥檚 sage advice, just ask any Afghan what life鈥檚 been like these last few years.
Israel could鈥檝e succumbed to the same pressure, and let the Democrat dodos push it into premature surrender.
It could have caved when Harris threatened it with 鈥渃onsequences鈥� should the Israeli army go into Rafah.
It could鈥檝e agreed to cede control of the Philadelphi corridor, Gaza鈥檚 border with Egypt, giving Hamas a major pathway to smuggling fighters and munitions.
Had it done so, Sinwar 鈥� who was killed in Rafah, not far from the Philadelphi corridor, reportedly with wads of cash and a fake passport on his person and likely while attempting to flee into Egypt 鈥� would鈥檝e been sipping sweet tea from the safety of some shelter and doubling down on planning the next murderous attack.
Thankfully, the Jewish state made a very different choice.
Withstanding immense pressure, not just from Washington but from its many domestic cronies in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to fight on.
Instead of agreeing to engage yet again in negotiations with two terrorist organizations, Hamas and Hezbollah, that have been brazenly violating agreements and flouting internationally imposed restrictions for decades, Netanyahu had the IDF eliminate Hezbollah鈥檚 top leadership, take out its commander Hassan Nasrallah and make sure that Hamas鈥� Sinwar, too, died like a dog.
In doing so, Netanyahu and Israel taught America a lesson our spineless and rudderless elites desperately need to learn: Winning is possible.
Winning is desirable.
Winning is good.
True, war comes at a terrible price.
But refusing to fight and insisting that diplomacy is the only acceptable route only serves to embolden our worst enemies, prolong the misery of innocent people on all sides and ensure that the war we鈥檒l eventually have to fight will be much deadlier.
In killing Sinwar, Israel gave the world another reminder about not politics or military strategy, but basic human nature.
When someone marches into your home, rapes your daughter and burns your baby alive, the normal human response isn鈥檛 to weep and then slouch towards the negotiations table.
It鈥檚 to pick up a gun and go seek justice.
It鈥檚 the sort of logic Americans inherently understand, and one more reason why so many are rejecting the defeatist and delusional policies of an administration committed to absurd abstractions rather than concrete victories.
America has very real foes taking very real steps to jeopardize our national security interests, Iran first and foremost among them.
Instead of kowtowing to our murderous enemies, here鈥檚 hoping we take a page out of Israel鈥檚 playbook and refuse to budge until they鈥檙e all lying dead in the dirt.
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