He doesn't grasp American college students's attention span

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Poor guy; he doesn’t understand that America’s privileged juveniles’ violent support for Hamas today will have long since faded by the time Iran gets its act together and attacks the US; not that the children won’t cheer when it happens, but they’ll have gone on to the next passion, just as we’ve witnessed the passing of 2020’s BLM parades, the Occupy Wall Street frolics of 2011, and the goldfish swallowing contests of the 30s (which got its start at Harvard, naturally, when one Lothrop Withington Jr. took on the piscatorial challenge on a dare).

Look, Foad, the children you’re counting on for support have the attention span of any other 3-year-olds, and their commitment to any particular cause is as profound and ephemeral as that displayed by these Oberlin students back in 2015:

Oberlin College Students Protest The Cafeteria Food Not Being "Culturally Accurate" Enough, Demand To Be Paid An Hourly Wage For Their Protesting

National Review – The Oberlin College Black Student Union has released a list of 50 “Institutional Demands” for the school, including one that orders it to pay black students who organize protests $8.20 per hour for doing so.

The 14-page document opens with this nice buzzword salad:

Oberlin College and Conservatory is an unethical institution From capitalizing on massive labor exploitation across campus, to the Conservatory of Music treating Black and other students of color as less than through its everyday running, Oberlin College unapologetically acts as [sic] unethical institution, antithetical to its historical vision.

“This institution functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy,” it continues.

Other demands on the list include one for the “establishment of special, segregated black-only ‘safe spaces’ across campus” and a “40 percent increase in the number of black students in the school’s jazz department by 2022.”

NY Post – Students at an ultra-liberal Ohio college are in an uproar over the fried chicken, sushi and Vietnamese sandwiches served in the school cafeterias, complaining the dishes are “insensitive” and “culturally inappropriate.”

I only hope that kids rioting today can keep their enthusiasm through August, so they’ll be willing to abandon the beach and travel to Chicago to create colorful convention scenes for consideration by this fall’s voters.