August 19, 2021
By Brian C. Joondeph
The seven months of
the Biden presidency reveal a theme of surrender. Surrender is to give up
possession of something to another or to give up to some influence or idea.
President Biden has surrendered so much on so many levels. The only question is
how much is due to his abject incompetence versus a deliberate attempt to
surrender America, the country he swore an oath to preserve, protect, and
defend, to dark forces in the world.
Start with the latest
surrender, far from America in the war-torn country of Afghanistan. Despite
promises to the contrary, Biden and his foreign policy clown posse gave us a
rerun of Saigon in 1975. After hiding under his bed for a week, the President
explained his brilliant strategy by blaming his predecessor President Trump,
and the Afghan military. Surprisingly his speechwriters failed to mention
climate change, as another cause for the fall of Afghanistan.
Biden basically
surrendered, after 20 years and over a trillion dollars and countless American
and Afghan lives sacrificed to the cause of bringing faculty lounge democracy
to a largely illiterate band of thugs living in the 7th century. He blamed
Trump for attempting to end a war that now Biden says he opposed all along,
neglecting to mention how he presided over eight years of this war while
serving as vice-president. Or that he and Obama’s administration released the masterminds of this current
Taliban surge from Gitmo in exchange for deserter Bowe Bergdahl.
Trump boxed him in,
says Biden. Yet Biden reversed all of Trump’s other policies upon taking
office, opening the border, ending American energy independence, and
greenlighting Iran’s nuclear program. If he wanted to counter Trump’s plan to
exit Afghanistan after 20 wasted years he certainly could have. Biden defied
his generals, who must have seen “white rage” in Kabul, and told Biden not to
abruptly pull out the military.
But Joe knew better,
living up to his reputation as a foreign policy dunce. Obama’s Secretary of
Defense famously observed of Biden, that he has been wrong on
nearly every foreign policy question over the past 40 years. What little
foreign policy knowledge he had was decades ago when he was at least firing on
all cylinders rather than now, in rapid cognitive decline, surrendering thought
and reason to his advanced age.
Biden also
surrendered 40,000 Americans and countless numbers of
locals to the whims of the Taliban. Will they be released, held hostage, or
beheaded on an international stage? What if they are killed on 9/11 at the
surrendered US embassy? America’s humiliation will be complete.
He also surrendered a
generation of Afghan girls and women, for two decades allowed to wear Western
clothing, and attend school, hoping for a university degree and profession.
Instead, Biden surrendered these women to covering all but their eyes, serving
as Taliban brides and sex slaves.
Where are the
Democrats and Hollywood harpies that were screaming about Justice Kavanaugh
and supposed “rape trains” while Biden just
unleashed the real thing on millions of Afghan women?
Biden also surrendered Bagram Airfield, the only
reliable exit from Afghanistan, not last, once all Americans and our equipment
were safely out of the country, but six weeks ago, completely backward to
anyone with a whit of common sense. It’s not leaving Afghanistan that’s the
problem, it’s the ham-handed backward way Biden did it
To those Americans
stuck in Kabul, trying to get to the airport, the US State Department
buffoons say good luck, “Please be advised that the
US government cannot guarantee your safety as you make this trip.” They might
as well tell the stranded Americans to surrender. That’s what the Biden
administration did.
Also surrendered were
billions of dollars worth of military equipment, now in the hands of the
Taliban, with China likely scoping out any high-tech items to add to their
arsenal. China and the Taliban? They don’t work together, or do they? The
geniuses at Foggy Bottom missed it but the Australian news didn’t as they
correctly observed, “Why China’s relationship with the
Taliban poses an enormous risk.”
We left military
bases, forts, and enough equipment to create a first-rate military force. One
that may be used against American interests. This is worse than surrender. Will
the Democrats call this “infrastructure spending”?
Have other countries
noticed Biden’s capitulation? Iran, as Reuters recently reported, is ramping up uranium enrichment to
“near weapons-grade.” If Iran goes nuclear, Biden, by reinstating the
failed Iran-nuke deal has surrendered the Middle East and many allies to a
bunch of theocratic thugs.
Biden also surrendered
to China, as they observe America as a paper tiger, as Osama bin Ladin claimed. American soldiers are real tigers, but
not the parade generals at the Pentagon and the woke foreign policy experts in
the White House. After Biden surrendered Afghanistan, China is now holding “assault drills near Taiwan.”
What happens when it
is no longer a drill but the real thing? Would America come to Taiwan’s defense
against China? Hunter Biden’s billion-dollar investment from a Chinese bank suggests not.
That was protection money China paid to the Biden Crime Family to look the other
way. Will America help her ally? Or will Biden babble while Blinken
blinks, and voila, Taiwan is now part of communist China?
Is Russia watching
America surrender? Replace China with Russia and Taiwan with Ukraine and you
will have your answer. Other countries are watching Biden’s surrender too. Do
they want to hitch their fortunes and fates to a paper tiger who will cut and
run when politically expedient? Or will they pay homage and allegiance to China
for their protection? Just as store owners paid Tony Soprano protection money
to avoid something bad happening to their shop.
Back in America, Biden
has been surrendering America to myriad bad forces. He surrendered America’s
energy independence to AOC and the climate warriors. It’s now to the point that
he is begging OPEC to increase oil supplies that he curtailed by stopping
fracking and the Keystone pipeline.
He surrendered the
Southern border to throngs of who-know-who from who-knows-where, bringing COVID
and other diseases, or criminals from emptied foreign prisons. How soon until
Taliban fighters find their way to Mexico and then across the border into the
US?
Biden surrendered the
booming Trump economy, rebounding after the worst of COVID, and now declining.
Inflation is a word now being muttered, although in hushed tones, by CNN
newsreaders. The misery index is once again being calculated, after a long
hibernation from the Jimmy Carter presidency. Joe looked at Jimmy’s failures
and said “hold my beer” as he is doubling down on the worst of Carter.
Biden surrendered
American cities to police defunding, replaced by BLM riots, leaving city
residents in similar dire straits as poor Afghanis, promised hope and change
from a succession of US presidents starting with George W Bush, culminating in
a horribly executed cut and run.
Biden and his Democrat
surrogates in the media have surrendered civility and common sense to wokeness
where everything is racist and questioning authority, once a proud virtue of
the left, is considered domestic terrorism.
It is clear that Biden
and his Democrats don’t believe in American exceptionalism or greatness,
preferring to share the stage with powerful dictatorships. Biden’s legacy will
be American surrender, economically, politically, and morally.
The world is watching
and calculating. Hard-earned trust is easily squandered, much harder to
recover. The ramifications of Biden’s surrender will haunt America for decades.
As President Trump
said in a recently released statement, “Who or what will Joe Biden surrender
to next? Someone should ask him, if they can find him.”
Brian C Joondeph, MD,
is a physician and writer. He is on sabbatical from social media.