Douglas Murray’s point to Comic Dave Smith about “Have you been there” was misunderstood

Douglas Murray’s point to ComicDaveSmith about “Have you been there” was misunderstood.

The point is not that armchair positions are necessarily bad. You CAN armchair that targeting and kidnapping 1000+ civilians is evil.

You CANNOT armchair about the massively complex issues involved in carrying out an urban war against terrorists hiding behind civilians.

As I said in December of 2023…

“I find it amazing that folks who — sitting in their armchairs — failed at their ability to make a judgment in terms of how to think about 10/7 itself. They failed. This was a very simple armchair task.

They failed, but yet they have the armchair capacity to judge every little step that Israel is making.

Of course, they're not judging every little step that Israel's making. They made a judgment by the end of day 10/7 that, whatever Israel does, they are intrinsically genocidal. That is their position. It didn't matter what Israel did after that.”

-- Moment 441, Dec 4, 2023