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Victor Davis Hanson: The Left’s Blind Spot on 9/11, Charlie Kirk & Oct. 7

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Jack Fowler:  Douglas Murray’s a friend, a great writer. He’s written this essay for The Free Press, “The 9/11 Failure That Still Haunts America,” and here’s one paragraph from it, Victor: 

“Like many people, I used to spend considerable amounts of time following the progress of the dozens of Al-Qaeda detainees originally held in an American military prison in Guantanamo Bay. The first of them was brought into what was then called Camp X-Ray in 2002. The first images released of these, of the prisoners shackled and in orange jumpsuits caused a significant backlash in public opinion as audiences recoiled at their sometimes harsh treatment. But the U.S. could have quickly overcome any unease about these detentions if the terrorists had swiftly faced the full force of American justice. The families of their victims were promised that they would live to see that resolution. But after 25 years and five presidential administrations in Washington, most of the accused are still unbelievably in the pretrial phase.” 

I don’t see what there is to argue with that — 

Victor Davis Hanson: Disappointment. If  

Jack Fowler: Disappointment, it’s a weak word, but what are your thoughts, Victor? 

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Victor Davis Hanson: Well, we know in the left-wing mind, it’s unhinged. There’s something wrong with it. So the same mental tendencies that make you want to identify with Lindsay, the same sympathies you have for Lindsay Clancy. And when you say things like she’s already suffered enough because she’s not going to have the comfort of her children anymore. Think of that statement.  

That same tendency applies to the  American legal system. No matter how horrific, and we’re talking about Luigi Mangione, people like Tyler Robinson who blew the neck off of Charlie Kirk, the people who tried to kill Donald Trump, that same attitude of the Left is deeply ingrained.  

And so when they see people who murdered 3,000 people, their little brains go victim? Check. Nonwhite? Check. Middle East Muslims? Check. They are victims? Check. I will get notoriety. I will get virtue signaling. I will square my moral circle and feel good about myself.........

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