Jed Babbin
Some 400,000 Americans died from the COVID-19 virus before Donald Trump left office and at least another 315,000 have, so far, died since Joe Biden became president. The COVID vaccines give a high level of protection against the virus. Even…
President Biden’s foreign policy initiatives have been consistently disastrous. From giving the Russians an extension to the New START Treaty on their terms to his pursuit of renewal of Obama’s nuclear weapons deal with Iran and his debacle in Afghanistan…
President Biden wanted to give a self-congratulatory speech on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America. Instead, the debacle he created by leaving American citizens behind in Afghanistan left him walking around in a daze at Ground Zero…
Americans have pretty short attention spans on matters of national security and foreign policy. We can focus on a real crisis — like Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal — but once we’re assured that the crisis is over, our attention drifts….
On Thursday, 11 Marines, an Army soldier, and a Navy corpsman were killed by a suicide bomber near the Hamid Karzai International Airport. More than a dozen service members were injured and over 100 Afghan civilians were killed. That evening,…
We have to conclude that President Biden and his generals are guilty of indefatigable incompetence because of their handling of the evacuation of U.S. citizens from Afghanistan. First there is the paltry number of Americans brought out so far (about…
President Biden, his cabinet, and his advisers all continue to display a stupefying level of incompetence in Afghanistan that clearly flows down from the president. On Wednesday, Biden said, “The idea that somehow there’s a way to have gotten out…
The Taliban blitzkrieg that has already reconquered northern and western Afghanistan is now moving on Kabul, the capital city whose population of six million grows daily with refugees seeking protection from the Taliban. On Sunday, Taliban fighters entered Kabul seeking…
Winston Churchill wrote that there was never a war that could have so easily been avoided as World War II. Almost the precise opposite must be said about the coming war with Iran over its nuclear weapons: there have been…
