How Biden Betrayed Our Country?

I have written several articles on our Presidential candidate, Biden, and President Biden. A list of the links has been provided at the bottom of this article for your convenience. This article will, however, address different aspects of Biden’s presidency.

President Biden Has Betrayed our Allies and our Troops

For the past 20 years, our men and women have served heroically in Afghanistan to protect both global security and the shared interests of our allies across the world. Now, President Biden risks making their sacrifices all for naught with his most recent display of failed leadership.

On Monday, during an address from the White House, President Biden doubled down on his questionable approach and emphasized that he has no remorse for the human calamity we are seeing unfold. President Biden has failed the American people, the men and women in uniform, and the people of Afghanistan, including innocent women and children.

Sadly, the atrocities occurring in Afghanistan were entirely predictable and preventable. I have long held that we must bring our troops home from Afghanistan, but this withdrawal needed to be done carefully, delicately, and deliberately with a plan in place to protects our soldiers, allies, and the Afghan people. What’s happening borders on incompetence – and recklessly compromises the safety of Americans and our Afghan friends on the ground.

Last month, President Biden reassured the American people that the Afghanistan government was “well-equipped” to defend themselves against the Taliban and that, “the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.” Just a few days ago, he went even further – emphasizing that “there’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.” And yet, we’ve seen just that.

Over the past several days, the horrific images have continued to pour in. We have seen terrorists released from prison, the Taliban take control of the Bagram airbase, our embassy personnel told to shelter in place while friends and allies and their families are hunted down in the streets.

Under President Biden’s version of leadership, the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan was forced to close as the Taliban converged on Kabul while the interpreters and Afghan soldiers who aided U.S. troops for years are left behind. Taliban leaders are actively seeking out American allies, and women throughout the country – who only recently gained basic human rights and education and who have only just begun to recover from the effects of the Taliban’s repressive regime – are forced into hiding.

Not only is this a complete and utter failure of President Biden’s foreign policy, but it has severe ramifications at home where we are dealing with an ever-escalating border crisis.

President Biden is either guilty of intentional disregard for military and foreign policy advice from all sectors, or gross incompetence. Either way, the American people, our troops who have served abroad for decades, and our allies deserve answers.

President Biden must act now. Rather than doubling down on the “success” of the mission, he must own up to his mistakes, protect our men and women on the ground, assist our Afghan allies, and prevent the resurgence of Al Qaeda before it’s too late.

Biden’s Betrayal of Israel Will Jump-Start Nuclear Proliferation

Israel remains in crisis more than nine months after the terrorist group Hamas broke a ceasefire and undertook an orgy of murder, rape, and kidnapping across southern Israel. Hamas terrorists, Palestinian civilians, journalists working for Western outlets, and even United Nations employees facilitated kidnappings and abused hostages. As Israel continues its operations against Hamas terrorists, Hezbollah (armed with the latest Iranian drones and missiles despite U.N. monitoring) increasingly attacks northern Israel, driving tens of thousands of Israelis from their homes.

Neither the United States nor Europe would expect any other country to tolerate such attacks against its own borders, but the Biden administration approaches Israel through the cynical lens of its own electoral politics. For Biden, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and his deputy Jon Finer, winning the Islamist vote in Dearborn, Michigan, or Minneapolis trumps any principled defense of the Jewish state. European officials, meanwhile, approach Israel with moral equivalence, somehow conflating perpetrator and victim, and approach the Palestinians with racist condescension, denying their agency and shielding them from the consequences of their own decisions.

When Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on Yom Kippur in 1973, the Nixon administration launched Operation Nickel Grass to ensure the world’s only Jewish state had what it needed to defend itself. Contrast this with the Biden team and its European partners. Both are slow-rolling, if not informally boycotting, shipments of much-needed ammunition and resupply to a country under fire.

Biden and European leaders may look at Israel in isolation, but Israel is the canary in the coal mine in the fight against broader tyrannical forces that would normalize genocide and state erasure. Make no mistake: Other democracies under existential threat observe how the West treats Israel. Wavering on Ukraine, on full display with former President Donald Trump’s selection of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate, reinforces such concern.

Taiwanese officials realize that should they face Chinese conquest, the West might posture, but it likely would not act. Every Taiwanese person who values his freedom should understand now that if China invades, Taiwan can only rely on itself as Washington would likely betray its commitments or simply lose interest. Beijing orchestrates a 100-year marathon, while Washington tags out at 100 days.

When North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, President Harry S. Truman responded militarily, even though South Korea fell outside America’s “defensive perimeter.” Should North Korea repeat its actions 75 years later, it is not clear how much effort the U.S. would make to keep North Korean communists and cultists from overrunning their southern neighbor. Japan, meanwhile, could face threats from both China and North Korea.

The slow, unstated military boycott of Israel gives these countries one lesson: If Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan truly want to guarantee their security, they cannot rely on the U.S. Rather, they must develop their own nuclear deterrent. It may seem like a radical solution, but signaling to aggressors that they will no longer couple themselves to Washington’s whims is the best deterrent.

Of course, Israel has its own nuclear deterrent, though it would likely not use it unless it was in danger of terrorist forces overrunning it. But that only underscores the point. Diplomats may look at the decades-old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime as a pillar of international security for more than 65 years, but it is on life support, transformed into an empty shell of itself by the cynicism of diplomats who prioritize image over substance and favor short-term Band-Aids over long-term solutions. Today, the liberal order depends on proliferating nuclear deterrence.

Joe Biden betrayed America for last 47 years: Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump has accused his rival and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden of being a corrupt career politician who has done nothing but betrayed the Americans for the last 47 years.

Addressing a rally in Rochester in Minnesota on Friday, Trump, 74, said Biden has an obsession for power. “Biden is a grimy, sleazy and corrupt career politician who has done nothing but betrayed you for 47 long years. He will look you in the eyes, …

Making a strong case for his re-election, Trump told his supporters that giving him a decisive victory on November 3rd is the only way to defend their dignity. “There is only one way to defend your family and your country. There is only one way to p…

“On November 3rd, vote to defeat Biden and Save American Freedom,” Trump said, alleging that his opponent Biden will also continue his 47 years of cruelly betraying African-Americans. He called them super-predators, ripped apart their communities, a…

Noting that Biden’s plan will delay the vaccine, postpone therapies, crash the economy, and shut down the entire country, Trump asserted that under his plan, the administration will deliver a safe vaccine to the American People in just a few short we…

US is the worst impacted nation by the coronavirus, with the total number of infections and deaths standing at 9,034,925 and 229,544, according to Johns Hopkins University. “Over the next four years, we will make America into the Manufacturing Super…

Trump alleged that Biden has also spent half a century betraying the black Americans. “He devastated black families with the 1994 crime bill, and he called black youth “super predators,” a term that’s a terrible term. Superpredators over and over ag…

Joe Biden betrayed us,’ say protesting Afghans; World will pay for America’s Taliban blunder

In his first year as US President Joe Biden is presiding over a huge crisis which encompasses security, political, and humanitarian paradigms. His move to hastily withdraw troops, a continuation of predecessor Donald Trump’s decision, has led to the Taliban swiftly defeating the elected government and taking control of the country. Amid scenes of panic-stricken civilians scrambling to escape the country, and countries rushing to evacuate their citizens, the fear of Afghanistan turning into a terror-exporting hub is growing. Can Biden’s mistakes, with repercussions for the entire globe, be fixed?

0:12this moment will forever remain edged in

0:14memory the moment at kabul airport when

0:18thousands of desperate afghans were seen

0:20literally falling over each other to

0:23escape the country after taliban

0:25takeover yes terrorist rule in

0:28afghanistan is back after a break of 20

0:31years

0:32make no mistake this is the day of utter

0:34disgrace for the united states of

0:37america and a personal humiliation for

0:40president joe biden who has presided

0:43over this fall of afghanistan to

0:46fundamentalist terrorists

0:49as taliban fighters took over kabul last

0:52evening afghan nationals in the u.s

0:54protested against vital on your screen

0:57are visuals showing scores of afghan

0:59nationals gathered outside the white

1:02house

1:06[Applause]

1:24this is not

1:38we don’t

1:40biden you betrayed us

1:42biden you are responsible are the

1:44slogans that are going to haunt the u.s

1:47president for years to come fair or

1:50unfair joe biden will go down in history

1:53as the u.s president who presided over

1:56the humiliating final act in the

1:59american experiment in afghanistan this

2:02is the same joe biden who just a few

2:05weeks ago had struck a defiant pose and

2:08said that there was no way that taliban

2:11can overrun and take over afghanistan he

2:14had also confidently decried any

2:16comparisons with vietnam saying there’s

2:19going to be no circumstance where you

2:21see people being lifted off the roof of

2:23an embassy of the united states in

2:25afghanistan his words came back to bite

2:28him in just two weeks as a comparable

2:32scene unfolded with the us helicopters

2:35scrambling to evacuate diplomats and

2:38staff from the u.s embassy in kabul many

2:41critics even called it biden’s saigon

2:44moment and it’s not that joe biden did

2:47not know the risks more than once he has

2:50himself noted how he came into the oval

2:53office with more foreign policy

2:54experience than any other recent u.s

2:57president yet he got it horribly wrong

3:00worse he and his team even failed to get

3:03the interpreters in others who helped

3:05u.s forces out of afghanistan in time

3:08this despite the fact that they had

3:11months to plan and prepare remember

3:13biden had announced the decision to

3:16withdraw american troops from

3:18afghanistan in april so how did

3:21president biden get this so wrong this

3:24was the first question that cnn news

3:26anchor jake tapper posed to the u.s

3:28secretary of state anthony bilkin on a

3:30sunday morning show and it captures the

3:33essence of how the rest of the world is

3:35viewing biden’s recent decisions on

3:38afghanistan sure donald trump was the

3:41one who cut the deal with taliban in the

3:43first place and in a statement issued on

3:45saturday uh one day before the car will

3:48take over joe biden did try to shift the

3:50blame a little by saying he had

3:52inherited a deal cut by his predecessor

3:55but it does not take away from the fact

3:58that it is joe biden who will own

4:01and have to live with the consequences

4:05of this very hasty

4:08uh withdrawal of troops and the

4:10consequences way heavy for the afghan

4:14people it is an uncertain fearful return

4:17of radical islamic terrorists and

4:19absence of human rights for the women

4:22it’s a dark nightmare where stoning for

4:25adultery loss of freedom rapes killings

4:29are commonplace

4:30and for the world there is the

4:32forwarding sense that afghanistan will

4:34once again become happy hunting ground

4:37for terrorists exporting extremism to

4:40the world for years to come

Joe Biden has betrayed Arab Americans

As Joe Biden’s American presidency comes to an end, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and now Mr Biden himself have been making an effort to put a positive spin on their disastrous performance in the Middle East.

While his aides have taken to blaming others for failures in a vain effort to absolve themselves, the President, true to form, attempted to paint a portrait of successes. It was, in a word, exaggerated. Some might even say, delusional.

The focus of this article will be narrower. It will be an assessment of the Biden administration’s performance through the lens of the commitments it made to Arab Americans in 2020.

In the lead-up to the November 2020 election, the Biden campaign issued a document titled Joe Biden and the Arab-American Community: A Plan for Partnership. It demonstrated important outreach to an often-overlooked constituency. There were many promises made in its three pages, only a smattering of which were implemented.

For example, the Biden administration signed the “Khalid Jabara and Heather Heyer No Hate Act” that improves hate crime reporting. The act improved race and ethnicity data collection, including a new category that will enable a more accurate count of people of Arab descent. And it ended the “Muslim ban” and extended Temporary Protected Status to various countries in the Arab world, allowing people to remain in the US during the conflicts raging in their home countries.

But aside from these few accomplishments, the story to be told is what the Biden administration did not do.

For starters, it promised a “partnership” with Arab Americans, but nothing of the sort occurred. During the entire four years of his term in office, neither Mr Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris met Arab-American community leaders. There were meetings that community representatives fought for and won with Mr Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland, but none with the senior leadership in the White House.

This was primarily because for the first three years, the White House subsumed Arab Americans under the Muslim rubric, effectively erasing Arab Americans as an ethnic community. When the White House first announced its Strategy to Combat Islamophobia, it spoke of concern with bigotry, discrimination and hate crimes that harmed “Muslims, and those perceived to be Muslim”, citing Arabs and Sikhs as examples.

This exclusion had an impact across the government. Arab Americans, who for four decades had to fight for recognition and inclusion, were forced to begin the fight anew just be included in meetings and have their concerns heard.

So, while the Biden campaign document opened saying that “anti-Arab bigotry has been used in attempts to exclude, silence and marginalise an entire community … Biden embraces the partnership of Arab Americans”, in reality, the White House found a new way to exclude, silence and marginalise the community.

Next, the administration rushed through Israel’s admission into the US Visa Waiver Programme, despite documented evidence that Israel had not fulfilled a basic requirement of the programme – that is, to guarantee reciprocity to Arab Americans seeking entry to and exit from Israel.

Past administrations, Republicans and Democrats, had rejected Israel’s entry into the VWP given well-documented evidence of harassment, discrimination and denial of entry to US citizens of Arab descent. The Biden administration knew that these practices continued and yet it trampled on the rights of its own citizens and the statutory requirements of its own laws to grant Israel this undeserved privilege.

In addition, during this administration’s tenure, Arab Americans have been murdered by Israeli forces and had their properties stolen and vandalised. The best the US has done, in response, has been to express concern.

The Biden campaign also promised to reopen the US consulate in Jerusalem, and the Palestinian office in Washington. These they haven’t done.

Maybe the most galling failures of this administration are in its handling of the war on Gaza. Granted that this tragedy had not erupted in all its fury when the Biden campaign pledges were made, but there were promises made in the 2020 campaign document that provide a yardstick by which to measure their performance.

One statement says: “Joe Biden believes in the worth and value of every Palestinian and every Israeli. He will work to ensure that Palestinians and Israelis enjoy equal measures of freedom, security, prosperity and democracy.” Here’s another statement: “Biden opposes annexation and settlement … and will work to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.”

Throughout the entire war on Gaza, other than expressing hollow concern for Palestinian casualties and humanitarian needs, the administration has given Israel blank-cheque support as it has pursued its aims. Lamely claiming that it had limited ability to influence Israel’s behaviour, the US sent tens of billions of dollars in new arms shipments, sent US forces to support Israel, repeatedly vetoed UN resolutions calling for a ceasefire, and condemned the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice efforts to rein in Israel’s actions.

Even now, as Israel is making it clear that it is establishing a permanent presence in Gaza (and in parts of Lebanon and Syria), and Palestinians are being denied food, medicine and shelter in Gaza, and dying from hypothermia and malnutrition, the administration is rushing another $8 billion in arm shipments to Israel. So much for its belief in the equal worth and value of Palestinian and Israeli lives.

While so much more could be said, the bottom line is that for Arab Americans, the Biden administration will be remembered for: its refusal to honour commitments it made; its efforts to effectively erase the community and deny its members their rights; and its wilful enabling of Israel’s war in Gaza.

This betrayal cannot be forgotten or forgiven.

Dems and Joe Biden: A classical lesson in modern betrayal

One of the most famous phrases in history is one that my high school Latin teacher Sister Mary David intoned with deep solemnity as we were studying Caesar: Et tu, Brute?

Literally it translates into “And you, Brutus?,” words spoken by a dying despot who, bleeding from many stab wounds, was likely killed by the final blow from his adopted son. But over the centuries it has taken on a more universal meaning, namely, the cry of ultimate betrayal.

I thought of what Sister Mary David would say about the Democrats ultimately successful but tortured campaign to remove Joe Biden from the presidential race. The diminutive Mercy nun would have likely looked me directly in the eye and said “that was a bloodless assassination.”

It may be tasteless to invoke virtual assassination only days after someone tried to commit an actual assassination against Donald Trump. But we cannot ignore the parallels between what happened to Caesar and what the triumvirate of Pelosi, Obama and Schumer-along with their lesser accomplices-did to Joe Biden.

Let’s dispense with the obvious differences first: Joe Biden is not a despot, nor was he killed. While I find his character and politics anathema, no honest person would call him a dictator. Crazy-in-the-head conspiracy theorists can blather on about forced vaccination plots, and more reasonable folk can legitimately condemn his positions on abortion and Title IX, but he is not Caesar. For that matter, neither is Trump. The rhetoric from the insane wings of both parties is dangerous, and should be ignored.

And, although his cadence, pallor and ability to communicate in an articulate manner would suggest otherwise, he is not actually dead. The Democrats employed everything short of physical intimidation to get him to step down from the race. They pretend their efforts began in earnest only after they saw his horrific debate performance in June. But they knew, and we knew they knew, for many months. Independent reports and comments made on deep background ,as well as a few on the record, indicate that Biden’s diminished capacity was obvious to everyone inside his inner circle for a long time. They only appear to have started the campaign to unseat him when what they knew was televised for everyone to gape at.

Which brings us to the central question: did the Dems push for Biden’s withdrawal because they care about the nation, or about their own power? In the case of Brutus, a Republican in the ancient sense, his treachery was motivated by a desire to resurrect the Roman Republic and neutralize a dictator. The fact that the dictator was his beloved adopted father made it a deeply difficult task, and a great betrayal.

It’s hard to see the nobility in what the Dems have done. If they cared about the country, they would have demanded Biden’s withdrawal when the signs of age-related dementia became obvious to them. Instead, they waited until it became obvious to us.There is no honor in desperation.

Some might argue they are trying to save the country from Trump, who they consider a fascist. But what do you call people who thwart the will of the electorate by essentially coercing the primary winner to step down? Are they patriots? Traitors? Or something in between?

So the deed is done. We wait for the fallout. We wait to see who will succeed to the throne, so to speak. We will see if there is a bloodless but bitter battle between Octavian and Antony, or Kamala and whoever.

In the meantime, we come neither to praise Biden, nor to bury him. We come to mourn the state of our nation and its flawed and unworthy leaders.

Resources

newhouse.house.gov, “President Biden Has Betrayed our Allies and our Troops.”; aei.org, “Biden’s Betrayal of Israel Will Jump-Start Nuclear Proliferation.” By Michael Rubin; deccanherald.com, “Joe Biden betrayed America for last 47 years: Donald Trump Biden called African-Americans super-predators, ripped apart their communities, said Donald Trump.” By PTI; thenationalnews.com, “Joe Biden has betrayed Arab Americans.” By James Zogby; victoriaadvocate.com, “Dems and Joe Biden: A classical lesson in modern betrayal.” By Christine Powers;

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