Israel, Iran and the dangerous fecklessness of an American Model UN national security team

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"I don’t like you because you're gonna get me killed."

Zeus’ (Samuel Jackson) summation to John McClane (Bruce Willis) in 1995’s "Die Hard With A Vengeance" is the essence of the "Trump Doctrine" critique of the "Biden Doctrine."

The former holds "Strike at America and America will hit you twice as hard; strike at our allies and we will support them in as many ways as we can."

The Biden Doctrine, developed in the crushing pressure of all-nighter Model U.N. "negotiations" in high school or college and now even more tempered by the political realities of radical anti-Israel voters in Michigan (and fears of a Chicago convention that makes its 1968 counterpart seem like child’s play) is: "Never don’t sound retreat. Never escalate. The world will evolve towards stable and predictable stasis if China and Iran are treated with deference and if Russia is given some breathing space in Ukraine (and maybe those Baltic states?)"

ISRAEL WEIGHS OPTIONS AFTER IRAN'S 'BRAZEN' ATTACK; UN MEETS

After a Saturday night of drama and worry —a direct and ferocious attack on Israel from Iran without precedent or parallel— the first report I read on rising early Sunday came from the Times of Israel: "According to media reports, citing senior administration officials, US President Joe Biden has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the US would not aid any Israeli counterattack on Iran."

Of course. Because at those Model U.N. marathons and within the Yale debate clubs that formed the world views of those propping up an infirm president, nobody ever hauls off and punches the "Special Rapporteur" on this or that, the Taliban can be trusted, Chinese Communists aren’t really Leninists bent on empire,