President Joe Biden gave an address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Most of it was all right, except for the climate change pseudoscience (which I mind less in an international forum, since that's about imposing bad policies on other countries, not out own).
But the speech lacked historic punch. It was not as memorable as, say, Donald Trump lecturing the Germans on the need to be less dependent on Russian energy. There's really only one international issue that Biden can do something about, and it's Ukraine. He failed.
Biden merely repeated the standard line about standing up to Russian aggression. What he should have done -- with Russia and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the room -- was lay out an agenda for peace talks. That would have been a speech to remember.
Today's episode is devoted to the second anniversary of the October 7 terror attacks. It was produced before the announcement of a ceasefire deal, yet remains current & relevant.
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This week's portion is a beautiful poem, containing the Covenant between God and the people of Israel. But given the breaking news that Hamas may actually have agreed to release all of the Israeli hostages, I will devote my remarks to that.
One hopes it is true; if so, it makes this week's additional reading, from II Samuel 22, even more relevant: David's song of praise to the Lord for delivering him from the hand of his enemies.
"18 He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
from my foes, who were too strong for me.
19 They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
but the Lord was my support."
So much to focus on this week -- and much breaking news. A peace deal in the Middle East, perhaps? Eric Adams dropping out of the mayor's race? And a looming shutdown as Democrats push their demands beyond absurdity.
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