Commentary

“JOE BIDEN’S TERM as president began on January 20^th, this week marks the beginning of the end of that presidency, at least in any meaningful fashion,” wrote the columnist Chris Barron in the Political Insider.

“It is difficult to imagine how President Biden can rebound from this disaster especially given the absolute tone-deaf response from the White House over the last few days.

“Biden has told the American people that this is the best they could have hoped for.  He has failed to hold anyone accountable, and has absolutely failed to instill confidence in the electorate that this level of incompetence isn’t systemic in his administration.

LACK OF FORESIGHT – In an unusual news analysis on page one of the New York Times, “A Presidency and Its Values Put to the Test,” Peter Baker condemned the Biden administration’s lack of foresight and criticized Biden’s false statements regarding the evacuation.

“For most of the last week, in the fires of the worst foreign policy crisis of his young administration, the president who won the White House on a promise of competence and compassion, had trouble demonstrating much of either,” opined Baker.

“As he has all week, Mr. Biden made assertions seemingly at odds with reality,“ Baker added.

I WAS SURPISED that Peggy Noonan, the east coast liberal columnist of the Wall Street Journal, saw a way Biden could save face in Afghanistan.

She began by conceding that our Afghanistan withdrawal was “not a departure but an abandonment,” adding “we left carelessly, with incompetence that can hardly be imagined. 

“Could there have been less planning and foresight?  That’s what will follow Joe Biden now, his carelessness, his stubbornness and pride. The reputational blow for the president and his administration will be severe, and so will the foreign policy implications.”

With that said, Noonan advised Biden to “take authority.” Among her suggestions were: send in more troops and air power if needed and find and save the Americans who can’t get out”

More astounding was her recommendation that the road and gates to Kabul airport “should be smashed open and kept open by whatever means, whatever it takes.  And, if Bagram Air Base needs to be reopened under U.S. control, reopen it.  Throw in everything you’ve got.  If it means blowing past the August 31 fixed departure day, blow past it.”

In this instance, I fully agree with Noonan.  We have already allowed this rag tag tribe of 75,000 or so to humiliate America.  We cannot allow the Taliban to order us around.  Biden may have painted America as weak in their eyes, but it isn’t too late to control of the situation on our terms. We must allow our Army and Marine warriors, airmen and sailors to restore America’s strength in Afghanistan.

“FIDDLING WHILE KABUL FALLS” is the headline over Michael Barone’s column in the Washington Examiner.  “While historians aren’t exactly sure that Nero caused or neglected a fire that consumed much of ancient Rome,” he writes, “historians, as much as they’d like to, won’t be able to deny that President Biden bears full responsibility for America’s humiliating retreat from Afghanistan and the neglect of tens of thousands who aided us and now face torture and death from the Taliban.”

FURTHER PROOF of that incompetence, reported by Newsweek, revealed that the Biden state department sent out thousands of bogus generic visa documents to Americans in Afghanistan to help them get out of the country.  The documents had no name, serial number or barcode on them.

“This rank incompetence proves again how unprepared they were for what happened,” wrote Matt Margolis in PJ Media, “and this poorly thought-out remedy shows they’re flying by the seats of their pants to fix the situation, and making it worse.”

“BIDEN VOTERS, are you tired of losing yet?  That’s the headline over an opinion piece by Boston Herald columnist and WKRO radio show host Howie Carr, who reminds his readers how President Trump used to ask, “Are you tired of winning yet?”

“If Dementia Joe (Biden) could speak in coherent sentences, he might sputter, ‘Are you tired of losing yet?’” Carr noted.

In the lead paragraph of Carr’s column, he writes of the catastrophe in Kabul, open borders, rampant inflation, skyrocketing urban crime, the destruction of American energy independence, endless nonsensical lockdowns over a now mild virus that is killing almost no one, and his public statements requiring back-tracking by his staff, while he shuffles off to Marine One for a weekend in Delaware or Camp David.

“Your boy, Dementia Joe, owns it all now,” he tells Biden voters, suggesting that, in reality, Biden’s “America is Back,” line should be “America is on its Back.”

MEANWHILE, the chaos in Afghanistan has taken the spotlight off our southern border, the site of another Biden-made disaster. Illegals crossing our border hit 213,000 in July, a record number for this century.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.