Commentary
While reading Peter Bergen’s piece, “The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden,” in the weekend Wall Street Journal, an account of his last days in the Pakistani compound, Bergen wrote of Bin Laden’s plans for a follow on, “bigger than that of 9/11.”
Bergen wrote of the documents recovered by our Seal team, including some 470,000 computer files from a trove of 10 hard drives, five computers and about 100 thumb drives and disks, containing thousands of pages of his private letters and secret memos. Among them is a handwritten journal, kept by two of Bin Laden’s daughters, recording the last few weeks of his life.
“Killing President Barack Obama was a high priority,” he writes, “but he also had General David Petraeus, at that time the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, in his sights.”
Not so surprising. “Bin Laden told his team not to bother with plots against Vice President Joe Biden, whom he considered “totally unprepared” for the post of president,” according to Bergen.
You will recall, that it was Obama who wrote in his book, Biden advised him not to take out Bin Laden. “Don’t go,” but subsequently told Obama to “follow your instincts.”
Biden was concerned about “the enormous consequences of failure,” according to Robert Gates, and counselled the president to “defer any decision until the intelligence community was more certain that Bin Laden was in the compound.”
It’s kind of reminiscent of Biden’s response to President Trump’s decision to take out the Iranian terrorist Qassem Soleimani, casting it as a dangerous escalation in a volatile region. During a January 2020 speech in New York, Biden labeled the hit on Soleimani the latest in a series of “dangerously incompetent” steps taken by Trump, while referring to Trump’s dismissing the Iran nuclear deal.
Biden accused Trump of making a spur of the moment decision. Yes. Based on advice given to him by his intelligence advisors. Soleimani was in his car out in the open, a prime target that called for a prompt decision. But Biden wouldn’t understand that.
In the aftermath of the Seal mission to get Ben Laden, Obama wrote, “Joe placed a hand on my shoulder and squeezed. Congratulations, boss,“ he said.
It isn’t likely that Biden would ever credit Trump for his decision to take out the killer of many American and Ally soldiers.
IS IT ANY WONDER that Biden’s approval rating has dipped to 46 percent, and his disapproval to 52 percent, and that 42 percent “strongly disapprove while just 26 percent “strongly approve?”
Also, Rasmussen Reports that for the three weeks ending July 15, 2021, 54 percent of voters believe the country is on “the wrong track,” while just 39 percent feel we are on “the right track.”
Biden is taking a beating on his handling of violent crime and inflation. Sixty percent of whites, 59 percent of Black voters, and 58 percent of other minorities say they are “very concerned” about violent crime in America.
Fifty percent of whites, 46 percent of blacks and 47 percent of other minorities are “very concerned” about inflation.
I’D LIKE TO BELIEVE the headline over Stacey Lennox’s piece “Now There’s Absolutely No Doubt It’s Over for Joe Biden,” in PJ Media, but I think she’s jumping the gun a bit. She assesses the polls in her article.
AND THEN THERE’S THIS – “As Americans see more of him (Biden) and aren’t happy with what they are seeing,” writes Nick Arama in Red State, “Americans are beginning to get that they were sold a lemon and that Biden isn’t anything like he was promised … the nice, caring, moderate honest guy.”
“Joe Biden has been a liar all his life, now they’re seeing him up close and his constant lying, even making things up.
The Economist/YouGov Poll shows some real trouble spots for Biden, says Arama.
While 42 percent think he says what people want to hear, 39 percent of those polled think Biden says what he believes.
Just 38 percent are confident in Biden’s ability to deal wisely with an international crisis, while 46 percent are “uneasy.”
Only 21 percent think Biden can bring the country together.
Fifty-three percent view Biden as somewhat or very weak.
SOMETHING TO PONDER – Wyoming Republicans seemingly have had enough of RINO Liz Cheney and her obsession with nailing former President Trump. A McLaughlin & Associates survey shows a whopping 77 percent of Republicans indicated they do not plan to vote for her in 2022. Just 26 percent view her as a conservative.
Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.
