National Security Adviser Jim Jones, apparently intent on dispelling the rumor that Joe Biden is the stupidest man in Washington, began a speech at the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy with a Jew joke—a Jew joke that went like this:
A Taliban militant gets lost and is wandering around the desert looking for water. He finally arrives at a store run by a Jew and asks for water. The Jewish vendor tells him he doesn’t have any water but can gladly sell him a tie. The Taliban, the jokes goes on, begins to curse and yell at the Jewish storeowner. The Jew, unmoved, offers the rude militant an idea: Beyond the hill, there is a restaurant; they can sell you water. The Taliban keeps cursing and finally leaves toward the hill. An hour later he’s back at the tie store. He walks in and tells the merchant: “Your brother tells me I need a tie to get into the restaurant.”
Jones, you may or may not remember, is a retired four-star U.S. Marine Corps general.
