Don’t forget what Robert Gates had to say about Joe Biden.
Gates, a Republican who served for a time as the defense secretary in the Obama administration and was one of the few somewhat-truthful Americans to serve in that administration, said after he left government that Biden had been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
What Gates likely wasn’t aware of was the underlying reason why Biden’s pontifications had been so off-base. He might not have understood, for example, that Biden’s opinions on Ukraine and China, among other nations, were bought and paid for by some of the sleaziest malefactors on God’s green earth.
Nonetheless, Gates’ verdict was true when he issued it in his memoirs, and it lives on untarnished as current events prove it prescient.
Joe Biden is pretty much always wrong, and his motivations are pretty much always the wrong ones. Therefore, it’s no surprise when the Ls mount every time he conducts the foreign policy for which he’s allegedly so adept.
Take, for example, that humiliating visit to San Francisco by the Winnie the Pooh lookalike who serves as the Chinese dictator. Biden was correct when he used the “d” word to describe Xi Jinping, but what was decidedly missing from his talks with America’s greatest geopolitical adversary, who has been poisoning our economy and culture and even our people thanks to the fentanyl invasion, was any action that validated such a judgement of Xi.
The Heritage Foundation’s Bryan Burack blistered Biden Monday for the utter disaster that was Xi’s San Francisco visit:
The Biden administration lifted human rights sanctions on an organization accused of involvement in the CCP’s genocide against Uyghurs in return for a CCP pledge to resume bilateral cooperation on fentanyl. (For context, more than 70,000 Americans are dying of fentanyl overdoses per year, and the vast majority of the ingredients to make fentanyl are coming from China.)
While the media are describing this quid pro quo as a “fentanyl deal,” a “deal” implies concessions from both sides. But whereas the U.S. has actually lifted sanctions on the Chinese Institute of Forensic Science, the CCP has offered little more than hollow pledges on fentanyl, issuing a “warning” to drug manufacturers.
Recall that Beijing made similar pledges to the Trump administration to crack down on fentanyl exports, after which the U.S. fentanyl epidemic only worsened.
The White House has also played up “the resumption of high-level military-to-military communication” as a summit victory. Like fentanyl enforcement, this would be helpful—if the CCP actually follows through. But for decades, Beijing has refused to use these channels to actually deescalate tensions.
The “resumption” of nonfunctioning communication isn’t a victory. Xi needs to prove his commanders will actually answer the phone and be empowered to resolve crises.
As a result, any such agreement with Xi must be presumed worthless until proven otherwise.
He has consistently lied to the U.S. and world about his military and economic ambitions. Biden should know this, as he was in the White House in 2015 when Xi falsely promised in the Rose Garden not to militarize the South China Sea and to stop China’s cyberespionage activities.
Almost a decade later, it strains credulity to take Xi at his word and to advertise handshake deals with the Chinese leader as “progress.”
Biden might have hoped the meeting would be good reelection politics, but it turned out to be a giveaway to Xi. Biden left suburban San Francisco with Xi’s promises. In return, Xi got a year of reduced pressure, new nonmilitary dialogues, sanctions lifted, advance warning of U.S. actions, and reduced U.S. Navy presence around Taiwan—not to mention the $40,000-per-plate private-sector dinner Xi used to propagandize to the willing ears of the pro-China lobby.
Facing economic challenges at home and a U.S. Congress increasingly focused on checking his malign ambitions, Xi might finally be on the back foot. This wasn’t the time to throw him a lifeline for free, but to keep up the pressure until the CCP meaningfully changes its behavior.
Well, if nothing else, the meeting at least produced a decline in the number of homeless, drug-addicted bums littering the streets of that city.
For a few days.
Nobody believes the Chinese will curb the amount of fentanyl ingredients they’re exporting to Mexican drug cartels for final assembly and insertion into our national bloodstream. China understands very well how effective the importation of narcotics can be where geopolitics is concerned; they had it done to them by the British in the 19th century with opium, and they aren’t going to stop trying to whittle away the American public’s productive capacity using the same method.
Getting a “warning” to Chinese pharma out of that meeting is worse than nothing. Xi can now say that he’s delivered on his promise on fentanyl and the matter is closed. Meantime, we have no leverage on China because Biden has created none.
And given the bribe money his family has pulled in from the Chinese, the evidence of which tumbles forth daily as House investigators led by James Comer produce it — to the profound disinterest of the Democrat operatives who occupy the news desks among our legacy corporate media organs — it’s no surprise we’re dealing so softly with the Chinese.
Gaza, though, is a separate matter.
Why has there only been one American hostage set free by Hamas?
On Sunday, 4-year-old Abigail Edan, who watched soulless Philistines slaughter her parents on Oct. 7 before she was captured, was released as part of a group of hostages let go in return for an Israeli ceasefire. She, as of this writing, has been the only American released out of the dozens who were taken.
Biden rejoiced upon Abigail Edan’s release. What he didn’t note, as he did his little touchdown dance seeking credit for Hamas setting her free, was the price America paid to get, so far, one of our people back.
Fred Fleitz shined a little light on that issue on Friday:
Incredibly, after the horrific October 7 attack against Israel by Hamas (Iranian terrorist proxy), new aggression against Israel by Yemen’s Houthi rebels (also an Iranian terrorist proxy), and a surge in attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria by Iran-backed militias, the Biden Administration last week approved a $10 billion sanctions waiver for Iran.
Apparently because of how controversial this payment is, the Biden Administration tried to keep it secret. However, it was revealed by Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), who entered details of the waiver into the congressional record, according to the Wall Street Journal.
This foolish and dangerous decision to give Iran access to $10 billion is an indication that despite Iran’s responsibility for the recent wave of deadly violence in the Middle East, the Biden Administration plans to continue to appease Iran and has not dropped its determination to negotiate a new nuclear agreement with Iran that is even worse than the controversial JCPOA agreement negotiated by the Obama Administration.
According to the Journal, the $10 billion dollar waiver was part of an unwritten agreement with Iran intended to keep the Middle East quiet until after the November 2024 U.S. elections. As I wrote in American Greatness on August 4 and September 8, this is a secret, unwritten deal agreed to last spring that will give Iran $20 billion in sanctions relief and allow it to enrich uranium to a dangerous level just short of weapons-grade.
Fleitz surmised that the $6 billion in assets to be unfrozen for Iran’s benefit, money that was refrozen after the Oct. 7 atrocities, is almost certainly going to be released soon — though almost certainly that will be done quietly and without much press.
Because the Ls pile up very quietly in Dirty Joe’s America. You only find out about them after the fact, when the price of incompetence and betrayal can’t be hidden anymore.
In Gaza it’s unmistakable. And in all of those cities and on all of those college campuses where enemy agitators demonstrate and riot on behalf of Iran and their proxies, scaring the dickens out of the Democrats’ politicos who don’t think they can win next year without the pro-Hamas fringe turning out for them, it’s unmistakable too.
At some point, there will have to be a price paid by Biden and the Team Obama functionaries who handle him for all of these Ls. Sadly, however, we are not at that point. So the Ls continue to mount, and American prestige and security continue to suffer.
