Hunter and Joe Biden
President Joe Biden has left the room, leaving in his wake a disputed "legacy.”
The general agreement is that Biden‘s “Farewell Address” to the nation – as well as much of his administration – has been a flop, obvious to everyone but hardcore neo-progressives. Biden's approval rating, after he was thrown out of the presidential plane by anxious Democrats no longer able to defend the indefensible, is hovering around an abysmal 35%.
To take but one instance, the deal to release Hamas abductees for hundreds of Hamas terrorists is now an imminent possibility only because of Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s aggressive war effort. Biden's earlier proposed break in Israel’s assaults on its enemies in Gaza and Lebanon simply would have allowed the terrorist enemies of Israel, all supported by Iran, to regroup. The explosion of Hamas phones was pure technological and infiltration genius. Israel also successfully degraded both Hamas and Hezbollah. Bashir Assad has finally left Syria for Putin’s Russia. It beggars the imagination to suppose, that Biden had been a prime mover in any of these events.
The future of the Middle East hopefully will rest securely in Netanyahu’s hands. The principal lesson to be drawn from Netanyahu’s Churchillian efforts to defend Israel is that successful wars won by Western democracies – Israel is one -- bring peace and successful negotiations; unsuccessful peace negotiations extend wars. The wars between Sparta and Athens, brimming with peace negotiations, lasted 30 years. The peace that followed the successful prosecution of World War II lasted far longer. That peace has been interrupted by the rise of a puritanical Islam now in the process of imprisoning Afghan women in their windowless boarded homes wrapped in burkas.
By any measure, the abrupt and ill-considered withdrawal from Afghanistan was a spectacular failure. There is every reason to believe that President of Russia Vladimir Putin early took the measure of Biden before he decided to bomb Ukraine back to the stone age and attach the rubble to what once had been the Soviet Union.
Connecticut U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal who, though he never served a day in combat as he falsely claimed, appears to know something about battlefield exigencies, implored Biden early during Putin’s Stalinist attack to send Ukraine jets. His pleas were unavailing and rejected.
Only recently has the New York Times acknowledged that Biden very early in his administration was unfit to serve as president. Special prosecutor Robert Hur refused to prosecute Biden for this very reason. Hur’s pre-campaign special report was smothered by affirmations from Democrat Leader in the U.S. Senate Chuck Schumer and others, some of them truth-loving journalists, that Biden, aptly described by Hur as unfit for trial, was fit as a fiddle.
Following release of the report, CNN, highly critical of former President Donald Trump, noted: “Special counsel Robert Hur released a searing report Thursday that concluded President Joe Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified military and national security information but will not face charges after a yearlong investigation into his handling of classified documents.”
In turning its face towards democracy, highly recommended by Democrats, the United States must turn its face against the enemies of democracy. They are, in order of importance, China, Iran, Russia, and socialism dressed in democratic attire, both at home and abroad.
A rational foreign policy is determined by a nation’s perception of friends and enemies. Putin, wavering between a Western Enlightenment orientation and ancient Eastern oligarchs, is moving his country in the wrong direction. Russia is not an oriental despotic state. Dostoyevsky, Chekov and the immortal Pushkin belong to the West. There may be time and space for a Russian correction. Iran is a permanent enemy of the West. We know this because the Shia militants in Iran and its revolutionary mullahs have clearly declared their enmity – with both words and bullets.
Hopefully, the incoming administration will be able to convince the enemies of Western culture, with both words and bullets, if necessary, that is never a good idea to bet against the United States.
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