Hope for the best.

Expect the words.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

No way of knowing which way it's going

hope for the best expect the worst

Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast. Today is Friday November 17th 2023 I am John Podhoritz the of Commentary, and we have a full house with us today, Executive Editor,

Abe Greenwald, hi Abe.

Hi, John.

Senior writer, excuse me, Senior Editor Seth Mandel hi Seth

hi Seth

Washington commentary columnist and director of domestic policy studies at the American

Enterprise Institute Matthew Con Nettie hi Matt

hi John and Matt's aei I colleague Matthew Con. Nettie, hi Matt. Hi, John.

And Matt's A.E. I colleague, our media commentary columnist Christine, Christine,

and hi Christine.

Hi, John.

So there was a weird panic moment, I would say Wednesday night,

or maybe Tuesday day, Wednesday,

I can't quite remember when,

after the Israelis had made their first foray inside the Shiva hospital compound and came out and said there were we found 10 guns and a couple of things here and there and suddenly it was like, aha, it's WMD all over again.

We went in, they went in to find the WMD in Iraq and Charles Dulfur and that other guy whose name I now can't remember came out and said

We didn't find them. They're not there. We don't have them and there was this moment of real panic that we better find the tunnels really fast or the bad guys are

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