Jim Geraghty
National Review, Nov. 6, 2023
“Whatever happened to the idea that the people responsible for the violence in the Middle East are the ones who actually committed the violence?”
… This morning, we must turn our attention to the recent comments of former president Barack Obama, who was pretty quiet for most of his post-presidential life, but who is now emerging at this emotional time to offer an assessment that Politico calls “jaw dropping.” I think it is more accurately characterized as appalling: Obama says that when it comes to Middle East violence, “you then have to admit nobody’s hands are clean — that all of us are complicit to some degree.” The hell we are! This is a not-so-subtle effort to spread the blame around as widely and thinly as possible, to hand-wave away the fact that we’ve had now ten years of Democratic presidents hell-bent on reaching a deal with Iran and putting more and more money in the hands of the Iranian regime. Go figure, when you provide a financial windfall to the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, you get bigger and bloodier servings of state-sponsored terror.
Obama: ‘Nobody’s Hands Are Clean. All of Us Are Complicit to Some Degree’
Former president Barack Obama appeared on Pod Save America — the podcast of his former aides Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor — and declared that regarding the violence in the Middle East, “Nobody’s hands are clean — that all of us are complicit to some degree.”
I quote the entire available excerpt, lest anyone accuse me of taking anything out of context:
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