There he goes again. No, not President Biden this time, his national security spokesman, John Kirby. A Fox White House reporter, Jacqui Heinrich, asked Mr. Kirby a series of good questions today and basically got no straight answers.

“Is the assessment still the same that Iran did not directly play a role in this attack? You had Senator Blumenthal saying it again,” Ms. Heinrich said.

“I did not say that,” Mr. Kirby replied. “I never said that Iran did not play a role. What we’ve said and there’s been no change. What we said is Iran is certainly complicit here. We still haven’t seen any direct specific intelligence that says they were witting or participating or directing the attacks of up to October 7th.”  

No specifics, I mean he didn’t answer a question. She said directly and then he kinda just dodges it and deflects it. Then here’s Mr. Kirby yesterday: “We know Iran continues to support Hamas and Hezbollah, and we know that Iran is closely monitoring these events and in some cases actively facilitating these attacks and spurring on others who may want to exploit the conflict for their own good or for that of Iran. We know Iran’s goal is to maintain some level of deniability here, but we’re not going to allow them to do that.” 

You know, again, some level of deniability. A, it wouldn’t happen without Iran. B, it wouldn’t happen without Iran.

But then he clings to this fiction that Iran had no direct intervention. It’s incredible.

Then here’s what Secretary Blinken said Sunday: “We expect that there’s a likelihood of escalation, escalation by Iranian proxies directed against our forces, directed against our personnel. We are taking steps to make sure that we can effectively defend our people and respond decisively if we need to. This is not what we want, not what we’re looking for.

These two, Messrs. Kirby and Blinken, are not answering the questions. There is no plain, direct talk. That is because they are not warriors. They are playing defense. Not offense. They are more comfortable sitting around the Yale faculty lounge tossing around dreamy aspirations for peace, to use a line by a former deputy assistant secretary of defense, Elbridge Colby.  

When Mr. Blinken says ”this is not what we want, not what we’re looking for,” that is so defeatist, it almost borders on victimhood. America is not a victim. America should not be wobbly. In fact, America should be on the offense.

Messrs. Blinken and Kirby are afraid of what the terrorists might do. Wait a second: The terrorists should be afraid of what the U.S. might do.

These Bidens have the story completely backward, and hence wrong. Iran and its terrorist puppets should be scared of American escalation against them. They were afraid of what President Trump would do.

Years ago, the communists were afraid of what President Reagan would do. But they are not afraid of what President Biden would do. That’s the problem today.  

And again, Mr. Kirby talked about “deterrence” today. Show me the deterrence. Mr. Kirby talked about additional sanctions. Show me the additional sanctions.

How many Iranian oil tankers with cargo for China were stopped by U.S. sanctions today? How many Iranian banks were put out of business by U.S. financial sanctions today? None that I know of.

And of course, there was no Biden snapback of the Iranian ballistic missile sanctions for the UN Security Council Resolution 1223. So I don’t know what Mr. Kirby is talking about.  

And for Mr. Kirby, or anybody else in the Biden administration, to deny Iran’s direct involvement in planning and financing Hamas, and other terrorist acts, is pure nonsense. Mr. Kirby had better watch out, before people start calling him Baghdad Bob, for those who remember Saddam Hussein’s hair-brained  spokesman many years ago.  

Now, another point: Here’s what a former director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, said last night: “Americans weren’t killed in some kinder or gentler manner. Americans were beheaded. Americans were raped. Americans were stabbed, shot. All of that has taken place. And there’s no outrage from this administration.” 

That is powerful testimony.

The Bidens may not realize it, but the terrorists have committed acts of war against America. Even Mr. Kirby said there may have been a dozen attacks on American troops and ships in the Middle East since October 7.

The killing of more than 30 Americans, and the hostage-taking of perhaps a dozen more, are acts of war.  

Firing on American ships, embassies, and Air Force bases, these are acts of war. When will the Bidens wake up to those facts?  

When will the Bidens stop appeasing Iran and their terrorist puppets and begin a serious campaign of deterrence? Will they ever?

We need warriors in the White House. Not Yale faculty lounge discussions.  

From Mr. Kudlow’s broadcast on Fox Business News.