Biden’s Team of Naïfs and Knaves
Can’t anybody here play the geopolitical game?
by Jed Babbin
September 13, 2021, 12:00 AM
President Biden wanted to give a self-congratulatory speech on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America. Instead, the debacle he created by leaving American citizens behind in Afghanistan left him walking around in a daze at Ground Zero in New York, the Pentagon, and the field in Pennsylvania.
Biden and his team have failed so miserably in every aspect of foreign and domestic policy that we’re compelled to recall what legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel said to the 1962 New York Mets: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
Decades ago Ronald Reagan forecasted why Biden and his team can’t govern even as well as that fabulously failed team could play baseball. He said, “The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Biden’s liberalism — and that of Blinken, Austin, and the rest — imposes ideological gridlock on their thinking. They believe that diplomacy can succeed in a vacuum without the underlying threat of military and economic power. They believe that all peoples and nations — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and even the Taliban — have the same values as we do and thus respond to diplomatic ventures the same way we do.
Those incorrect beliefs accumulate to render America powerless.
We see the results of those foolish beliefs in Biden’s and his team’s actions and statements every day.
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