Biden’s Fundamentally Weakened America
Whatever diminishes the country, he calls progress — in keeping with what Barack Obama taught him.
by George Neumayr
September 2, 2021, 12:06 AM
Joe Biden has promised to complete the fundamental transformation of America that Barack Obama started. “I think that what we’re seeing now is Joe and the administration are essentially finishing the job,” Obama has said.
During the Obama years, an image of that fundamentally transformed America was a Rose Garden ceremony celebrating the trade of Bowe Bergdahl, an American deserter, for five of the most dangerous terrorists from the Taliban. Obama treated that Rose Garden ceremony as a glorious moment for the country. It was, instead, a foreshadowing of Biden’s disgracefully botched handling of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.
A fundamentally transformed America is a greatly weakened one. Biden is, alas, finishing Obama’s job. What Biden calls a “success” in Afghanistan, future historians will call an ignominious failure. It got little attention, but even Biden’s drone strike in response to last week’s suicide bombing was a debacle. The strike ended up killing ten innocent civilians, “five of them children, all relatives of an interpreter who’d worked for Americans during the war,” reports Slate.
Biden’s desperate spinning may fool a sympathetic press, but it won’t fool military families. “You can’t f— up as bad as he did and say you’re sorry,” said a sibling of one of the slain soldiers to the press. “This did not need to happen, and every life is on his hands, the thousands of Afghans who will suffer and be tortured is a direct result of his incompetence.”
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