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Trouble in AsiaStubborn Joe Biden just wouldn’t listen: Michael GoodwinThe big news from the White House Saturday morning was that President Biden had canceled his planned trip to Delaware for the weekend. This was because pollsters told him his approval ratings already are taking a hit and leaving town again during the crisis would look bad. Legend has it that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but Biden just goes to Deleware. Biden is arrogant and stubborn and has created a calamity in Afghanistan. Reports show the military opposed Biden’s demand to pull all troops out and Secretary of State Tony Blinken was warned by Kabul embassy staff that the Taliban takeover was happening much faster than Washington understood. Yet Biden stuck to his complete withdrawal plan. Joe Biden has an inflated sense of himself. Robert Gates’ famous remark that Biden “has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades” bears remembering. As former Ambassador Ryan Crocker writes in a Times op-ed, “Biden’s strategic impatience has given a huge boost to militant Islam everywhere.” Crocker, who served courageously in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, among other posts in the Muslim world, said the outcome “has also been a huge boost for the Taliban, whose narrative now is that the believers, clad in the armor of the one true faith, have vanquished the infidels.” All because Joe Biden ignored information he didn’t want to hear. |
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