President Biden put his foreign policy perversity vividly on display for all the world to see in our exit from Afghanistan. It served Biden’s vanity while putting the world on notice of the new American unseriousness. It also reminded us of the apothegm Robert Gates’s 2014 memoir Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War: “I think [Joe Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
I’ll see your four decades and raise them to five. It was three years ago today that the blast at Abbey Gate outside the Kabul airport killed 11 U.S. Marines, a sailor, and a soldier. They were screening the thousands of Afghans frantically trying to get onto one of the crowded flights leaving the country after the Taliban takeover. Responsibility for the attack has been attributed to ISIS-K. We remember.
We continue to pay the price for Biden’s stubbornness and stupidity. It’s worse than stupid not to learn from experience.
And then we have Vice President Harris. She was the last person in the room when Biden pulled the plug on Afghanistan. Someone really ought to ask her about it now that she vies to carry on the reeking hulk of the Biden regime. None dare call it “an extraordinary amount of courage.”
Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the bombing at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan — which took the lives of 13 U.S. service members and injured many more.
Here's Kamala in 2021 bragging about being the last person in the room for that decision. pic.twitter.com/2dRog9EBPF
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Have American interests around the world ever been more at risk or we less able to defend them than today? See Michael Mandelbaum’s essay “America the Unprepared” (also published here by Jewish World Review). Mandelbaum’s essay takes up the final report of the Harman-Edelman Commission on the National Defense Strategy.
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