February 26, 2022
The Democrats will be buried at Kyiv
By Steven Kopits
The US continues to sit passively on the sidelines while the Russian army pounds Ukraine. It is all too pathetic.
Nevertheless, President Biden has listed as a key priority the prevention of US military deaths in armed conflicts. In his August 16, 2021 speech at Arlington Cemetery, President Biden declared:
How many more generations of America’s daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghans — Afghanistan’s civil war when Afghan troops will not? How many more lives — American lives — is it worth? How many endless rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery?
With this speech, he laid out what may come to be known as the Biden Doctrine, that there would be no conflict so small that the US would not run away, no act of cowardice too craven, no desertion of allies too treacherous, and no commitment to democracy or global security worth securing with military force beyond those agreed on paper.
On that day, his net approval rating (approval minus disapproval) stood at +6.2%, entirely acceptable for a US president. Three months later, on election day in November, it would fall to -8% and the Democrats would take a historical shellacking at the polls. Virtually all the damage resulted from the means by which the US pulled out of Afghanistan, leaving chaos, the Taliban, and now famine in its wake. Americans were appalled.
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