In baseball a hitter must be consistent in order to have and continue a hitting streak. In football the same consistency is needed for a field goal kicker to have a streak of ten successful field goals in a row. In politics Joe Biden is consistent. As Robert Gates, former defense secretary in the Obama administration, once put it, Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
The following examples of JB being consistently wrong are from Hachette book group:
-In 1975 President Ford believed that the United States had a moral obligation to honor its commitment to its South Vietnamese allies, who ‘had been very loyal to the United States’ until the bitter end. It was a foreign policy imperative as well: if the United States’ allies were to trust US leadership in the future, our government needed to keep its word.
Biden made his mark by becoming the Senate’s most strident opponent of US assistance to South Vietnamese refugees.
-About a month after the attack on the World Trade Center, in a meeting with Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers Biden said, ‘I’m groping here . . . but it seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.’ He apparently believed that the unsolicited payment to the Middle East’s greatest state sponsor of terrorism would buy the United States some “goodwill” in the Muslim world.
-In hindsight, Biden’s fateful decision to break faith with tens of thousands of Afghan interpreters…was predictable. According to Richard Holbrooke, Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Biden insisted, as far back as 2010, that the United States needed to leave Afghanistan the same way it did in Vietnam. When Holbrooke responded to Biden with concern for the plight of women under a Taliban regime, ‘Biden erupted,’ Holbrooke wrote. Visibly angry and almost rising up from his chair, Biden said, ‘I am not sending my boy back there to risk his life on behalf of women’s rights. It just won’t work. That’s not what they’re there for.’
His recent disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan was at least again consistent … poorly thought out and horribly wrong!
From Townhall:
On 3/25/24 the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution on Monday morning calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel — America’s greatest ally in the Middle East — and Hamas — a gang of barbaric bloodthirsty terrorists backed by Iran and responsible for the slaughter of more Jews in any single day since the Holocaust.
What is notable in that vote is that the United States abstained from the vote — the only UNSC member to do so — rather than casting a veto and killing the measure.
President Joe Biden and his entire administration are facing backlash after the United States refused to vote against a United Nations resolution Monday demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza without the release of hostages being held by Hamas.
Again Biden is wrong … but at least, he is consistently wrong!
3/27/24