AMAC Exclusive – By Andrew Camman
Eight days, and three major crises ago, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan tempted fate. Addressing the Atlantic Festival, he uttered the words, “The Middle East Region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”
With the scenes of Hamas’s inhuman barbarism flashing across the world’s televisions and an estimated 700 Israeli dead and thousands wounded, the population equivalent of twelve 9/11s for the Jewish state, those words are already beginning to haunt Sullivan’s public persona. Americans can only hope they also haunt his conscience, and that of his master, Joe Biden.
It would be too simplistic to say that Biden and his foreign policy team are responsible for this attack. Hamas carried it out, and intelligence and security failures abound on all sides.
It is, however, fair to say that Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, and Anthony Blinken have been willfully indifferent to every major contributing factor to these attacks. That indifference characterizes every aspect of this administration’s foreign policy.
American Foreign Policy has at times been set by men with poor instincts. With poor judgement. With the wrong priorities. By the selfish and the foolish. Never, however, have all of those factors been combined, and then mixed with a general indifference to the world to produce a toxic cocktail quite like the foreign policy we have witnessed over the last three years.
The reality is that the suffering in Israel this week is not the consequence of the Biden policy. It is merely the latest.
Let us first examine the state of the Middle East when Jake Sullivan declared it quieter than at any point in over two decades.
In the Caucuses, nearly 100,000 Armenians had been driven from their homes in the preceding two weeks after Azerbaijan ignored the urging of Washington as well as an agreement Baku signed in 2020, to shell the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh into submission. This outcome was hardly unforeseen. Armenia has made desperate efforts to pivot away from Russia toward the West and received from Blinken and Sullivan empty words.
Blinken called upon Azerbaijan to fulfill its promise to reopen a land corridor between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia in January. Undeterred by Baku ignoring his call, Blinken responded to Armenian complaints about the violation of existing agreements with an offer to negotiate new ones in March.
When Azerbaijan struck, a U.S. military detachment was in the country to assist with training the Armenian forces. It promptly departed. Blinken was still floating the idea of U.S. observers monitoring a cease-fire line that no longer existed at the end of September. Then to add insult to injury, he dispatched USAID Director Samantha Power to Armenia – something which might be considered an act of aggression in and of itself.
It may be that Sullivan believed things were now quiet as Nagorno-Karabakh and the conflict had been liquidated, though that defied the expectations of observers who believe Azerbaijan will drive further into Armenia proper. However, it seems more likely that the conflict and the displacement of 120,000 individuals, slipped Sullivan’s mind.
For Sullivan and Biden, this failure points to a wider problem. To them, foreign policy is a game of communication, not substance. If stories are kept out of the news, they do not exist. The withdrawal from Kabul, from the Biden administration’s standpoint, was not a military or diplomatic failure, but rather a public relations failure to properly manage the media.
When Ukraine was attacked, the Biden administration’s chief priority was to disassociate themselves from the fallout of a Ukrainian defeat, not to prevent one, urging Zelensky to flee. When Ukraine proved able to resist beyond all expectations, their interest was not in helping Kyiv win, but rather in using the war as a cudgel against their domestic opponents, the Republican Party and Donald Trump.
The result has been a situation where the Biden administration’s interest in Kyiv’s war effort is almost entirely correlated with what it can do for them politically.
That seems to be what Sullivan meant when he discussed how quiet the Middle East was – not that things were going well. It is hard to believe that the Iranian situation is stable when Tehran is extracting billions for hostages, bragging about its nuclear program, and doubling down on the policies that produced last year’s uprising by increasing the penalties on women who do not wear burqas, all while the regime depends entirely on the whims of an 84-year-old Supreme Leader who will not live forever. But the media is not talking about it, so from the perspective of Jake Sullivan, who has always viewed the role of National Security Adviser as more of a communications than a policy position, it is quiet.
By this standard, the success of the administration in evading attention on the total collapse of its entire Iran policy is considered a triumph rather than trainwreck. Biden’s envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, is currently on unpaid leave, his security clearance having been revoked this spring due to unclear circumstances which may or may not have involved unwittingly bringing a host of Iranian spies onto his team and installing them in key administration roles, including Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations.
While it remains to be seen what role the $6 billion Sullivan and Biden gifted Tehran played Hamas’s recent attacks, or whether the infiltration of virtually the entire Iran policy portfolio by spies may have contributed to the intelligence failures, what is striking is that the possibility they might never seems to have crossed anyone’s mind in the Biden administration.
Instead, there was a fanatical belief in the principle that if you couldn’t hear things because you had plugged your ears, that qualified as “quiet.”
This belief has proved as erroneous for the Biden team last weekend as it has for anyone who has attempted the same strategy in the hope of a solid night sleep only to have firetrucks arrive on the other side of the street. Except in this case, the Biden team were the ones in charge of the fire department, and their approach to claiming a reduction in dispatches was to switch to an unlisted number while moving out of state.
It is a mistake to say that the Biden administration’s failures are driven by a special animus towards Israel. The Biden team clearly dislikes Israel in general because they see no easy path to weaponizing it against Republicans. They also dislike Netanyahu because he refuses to be used as a campaign prop.
However, the Armenian, Iranian, and Afghani people know firsthand that Biden’s negligence is not unique to Israel. It is general. It has just produced an epic tragedy there.
At a certain point, however, motives cease to matter. In December of 1916, Pavel Milyukov, a Russian statesman, rose in the Duma to denounce the repeated failures of the Czarist government. After each accusation, Milyukov asked his audience, “Is it incompetence or is it treason?” His point was that it did not matter. The result was the same.
When it comes to the foreign policy of the Biden administration, too much time is spent mulling over motives on both sides. Conservatives work overtime searching for malice when the evidence of failure is overwhelming. Democrats defend the patriotism of senior officials so they are not called upon to defend their performance, the policies they pursue, or the outcomes that follow.
The debate is largely beside the point. The Biden team has convinced the world it does not care, and the world has responded accordingly. Now, it must be judged on results.
Andrew Camman is the pseudonym of a regular writer on current affairs who has taught history at the University level for eight years. He has worked on Capitol Hill and is familiar with the historical development of the American and British political systems.
Hamas terrorists are using US weapons left in Afghanistan by Senile Fool and his lackeys and are financed by the $6 trillion released to their sponsor Iran. All the blood is on Joe’s hands!
THERE IS NO ACCEPTABLE EXCUSE THAT THIS PRESIDENTIAL IMPOSTER CAN GIVE THAT ALLOWS THESE MUSLIM TERRORISTS TO MURDER AMERICAN CITIZENS THAT SHOULDN’T GO UNPUNISHED! But then again, KKK Backer Lying Crooked Jackass Joebama Shouldn’t be Trusted to Punish these Muslim Terrorists!
I did some research. When I looked up “Joe Biden”, the definition was not surprising. See below.
Joe Biden
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I never knew so many words could be used to describe one man.
The election is 13 months away and unless you and I rise up, we may not make it, I don’t want to alarm anybody, but the worlds on fire and we have the worst bunch we have ever had running show, in fact the things they are doing and the incompetence at ever level, President/vice president, state department, the brass at the military, and a socialist senate and a dis-functional house we are in more S#!t than a chicken coop!
God Bless America – may we survive!
Pray for protection from The Heavenly Father for all the State of Isreal.
The only two real questions the American people have to ask themselves at this point are the following:
1) How many more man-made crises will the Biden administration be able to create before the upcoming election, so there is sufficient chaos to allow for another steal?
2) What, if anything, will it take to shake the American people out of their self-induced stupor and stand up for themselves and the nation before we end up losing everything?
The rest of the world lost any and all small degree of respect for the United States and this administration after the resounding failure of leadership and competency involving the grossly incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan. Ever since then, every decision this administration has made, both on the world stage and domestically, has just reinforced the world’s perception of us and they have acted accordingly. Today we are neither feared by our enemies nor are we respected by the few real allies we have around the world.
As for the latest stumbling and bumbling by Team Biden that both encouraged and helped finance the current Iran and Hamas military campaign against Israel, anyone with any historical knowledge of how Iran has acted since the 1979 Islamic takeover of Iran by the Mullahs would know this is what Iran has been doing repeatedly for all the decades since then. Only the means and targets have changed slightly in the Middle East over all that time. Otherwise, this is just the normal Iranian playbook.
Pray for the Protection of all the Israeli people and the State of Israel. And that the Biden Regime pulls their head out…
This administration is at least indifferent and incompetent. They have given Iran every opportunity to spread conflict (savagery). So democrats have let this war spread, but Mike Pence has fueled the fire by accusing competitors he would like to knock out of messaging weakness and undercutting America. What a stupid statement he made.
This is one of the best, most informative articles I have read on a long time and I have read many. Great job.
ILLEGITIMATE INCOMPETANT BOOB!
The failure at our southern border and now this shows the complete incompetence of the Biden Administration. Biden is the worst president in the history of the USA. I wonder how many Hamas terrorists have come into this country and no one noticed?
ONCE AGAIN BIDEN PROVES HIS INEPTNESS AND ABSOLUTE ASSINITY AT PRETENDING TO BE A PRESIDENT OF THE USA. HE NEEDS, NO MUSTTTTT BE REMOVED NOWWWWWWWWWWWWW! JUST DO IT! HE IS THE WORLD’s BIGGEST PANSY ASS PRICK THIS WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!
REMOVE THIS AND I HAVE COPIES AND WILLLLLLLL REPOST OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN! FREEDOM OF SPEECH! NOT JUST YOU POLITICAL HYPES!
Wasn’t it just a few short years ago the former “bad” President had the Middle East talking to each other and peace prevailed because of his strong arm tactics of foreign policy…President Trump should have received the Nobel Peace Prize for that strategy…but the biggest creator of hostility and racism received one…Barrack Mohammed Abdul Oblahblah…
Shortly after that 6 billion was released for supposedly humanitarian purposes, an interview with a Hamas official said, “we’ll spend THAT money on whatever we feel like”. Couple weeks later,……the bombing started. Coincidence???
13 more months of incompotence. Kyle L.
We as the people are now understanding the importance of who we choose for office. It is a serious matter that affects all. Strength and leadership are keys to success not personalities and emotional grabs. This administration is to be questioned as to its allegiance. There is a guide to go by are they for the majority of its people in progressing it forward in a positive direction. I believe we know the answer.
Hamas isn’t going to be quiet until all infidels are dead!! That’s what you should be fighting, Joe, not Israel!!! How much of what was used against Israel was from what Joe left behind in the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle?? What about the money you released to Iran, Joe, do you think any of that went to this devastation??
At every turn, this administration seems to be trying to initiate WWIII but the fact that our military is depleted of personnel and weaponry, ammo!! The elite Democrat politicians are aligning themselves with who they think will be the winners so they can lead the life of luxury after it’s all over but if there is another WW, there will be NO winners, we are all losers!!!
Yes I pray for Israel and USA. It is an outstanding fact / conclusion that POTUS Stupid aka senile leader, gave back the $6 B and the bullies promptly attacked!!! Just another huge mistake to add to the ever growing list
IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH !
Bumble Brain is like a petulant child, my way right or wrong. There are now two hot wars and we’re running out of ammo and strategic reserve oil. Yesterday I told a terrorist supporter on X that Hamas is lucky I’m not in charge because I’d make Bebe look like a wuss. I’m for the way it was once done when an enemy was destroyed, salting the earth to make it unlivable.
We need to get him out of the white house before he destroys everything in his sight.
President Theodore Roosevelt said at The Dawn of The United States becoming a World Power:
“Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick, You will Go Far”. This was His Foreign Policy. This Policy also supported The Need of a Strong Military Force Supported By A Robust Economy! His Policy also Supported Once Forced was Deployed, Deployed it to Win!
Why is it ‘We The People’ Government Continuously Gets Amnesia on President Theodore Roosevelt’s Profound Foreign Policy Philosophy!
They write these articles like FJB has a thinking functioning brain…
This administration and those who support these incompetent people, are directly responsible for the all the deaths and chaos. There is NO excuse and will compensate or repair the damage done. You cannot bring back dead families.
biden is more than likely being told lies and is accepting these lies from people he trusts, and he wants these lies to be true such as that everything is fine.
He has been a corrupt person all his life and now with dementia he is a disaster. But of course, this is why the Marxists and fascists such as obummer, wanted him in the WH in the first place. Control folks, control. Right now,– who is acting president?– Certainly not biden Must be a committee of unelected people who want nothing except death to America.
Ole Joe wants us in his words “to get along”. That how he treats his foreign policy. He screwed up the Ukraine by not signing off on the accord they had before Putin invaded the Ukraine. They shoot off some rockets at one another. And then it is quiet again. Nobody is getting anywhere. What is being reached is a lot of dead on both sides. The oligarchs are getting rich. America is being drained of military equipment and money. All in the name of wanting to rule America forever and the dems have the power over Americans forever. China he is beholden to and little by little their influence over America is gaining.
This Hamas attack was allowed by ole Joe to happen by his weakness in Afghanistan, Ukraine and at the border here at home. Every leader in the world knows ole Joe is weak. He didn’t even condemn Hamas or Iran. He won’t confront his enemy for he is afraid, he can’t give a speech without cue cards. Gets lost reading them, don’t think foreign powers that want to do us harm, they see that too?
Releasing 6 billion dollars for American prisoners set a precedent. And don’t think that this 6 billion dollars is not somehow involved in this attack.
if you have 6 billion dollar collateral in a bank many people will lend you money. Even other countries that stand with Iran. Ole Joe keeps saying none of that money has been used, no not that money, but there are ways around that. We are being played by the current administration in order to eliminate the Republican Party and the power they want to stay with the dems forever.
LET US ALL GET ALONG. stop calling half of Americans terrorists.
biden IS A CANCER AS ARE ALL liberals
We are, without a doubt, being led by the JV team. Pathetic.
ONLY ONE SURE AND PERMANENT WAY TO STOP THE CANCEROUS, ANTI-AMERICAN, CHEATING, LYING, libs AND IT’S NOT THRU ELECTIONS……LOCK AND LOAD TO MAGA
Where was Biden then for Oct 1973 War??
The picture at the start of this looks like clown world< Obama.
Evil is evil
so many ppl in the once “White” House are pure evil ppls
When is America gonna wake up???
Is it gonna take another 9/11
I’m afraid for my family for fellow Americans
we got to clean out our country of these evil ppls !!
how many territories has Biden let I to US thru our open borders with dirty bombs already here
how many Chinese solders has Biden let into US thru our open borders are they living in the empty houses Biden let China buy up
Have dug bunkers in all the farm land Biden let China buy
WAKE UP AMERICANS
This is getting frightening. Can everyone see that Donald Trump’s strength in foreign policy is one of many things that he was successful at??????. Maybe his approach was unconventional, but the United States was respected! This is nonsense. Joe Biden lives along the river DENIAL (de Nile). Joe Biden needs to wake up and smell the coffee. He’s in over his head and should resign in shame. SHAME ON YOU JOE BIDEN and whoever is pulling your strings. God help us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would like to make one correction to this article. It is this. Jake Sullivan’s master is not Joe Biden. Sullivan’s master is Barack Obama. We are living the horror of Obama’s third term since Biden does not have the mental capacity to orchestrate what we are witnessing and living. And dementia Joe has stated that he is just following orders.
Obama is a Muslim, or at least views himself as a Muslim. Accept that fact and this entire mess begins to make sense. At least with regard to who, what, when, where, how and why. Especially with regard to why. Obama stated that he wanted to fundamentally transform this nation. Turns out his goals are more like fundamentally transforming the entire free world into a captive Muslim world.
But things get much clearer when one considers the fact that Barry O. is also just a puppet in the hands of the WEF and a few obscenely rich men who are looking for even greater riches for themselves. And there you have it. This all boils down to money and the desire to have “just a little bit more”. Greed drives them and greed defines them. What a waste!
I am so thankful that I am not one of those filthy rich men. They are getting their reward in this very short lifetime. I’ll wait for mine in eternity as I live for and serve my savior and lord, Jesus Christ in this lifetime, and beyond.
Humans have tried to rule the world for several thousand years. Only God is able to do it in a way that is fair, merciful and just. People don’t want Him because He forbids adultery, stealing, lying, and many things that people like to do. He also says we are to love Him. He has the power and will use it soon to take over the world. He’s giving satan some time to try to prove he is better. The time is now to make a decision for Christ Jesus as Savior. We don’t know what the next hour or even minute will bring.
OK, Biden is not in charge as a level headed leader of our United States of America! He has abandoned too many Americans in so many ways. This was very evident during the very beginning of his term in office. He has proven time and again that he, and his puppeteers are America Last(MALA, as per the Obama years). When are the true Americans going to rise up and crush the democrats and their undemocratic plan to destroy our great country? We must Trust in God first, above all, and pray that America can become the beacon of peace, civility, faithfulness, strength, and compassionate to lead and not be followers, who our current regime would have us be. God Bless America!!
A sentient human being might exhibit indifference; one with severe onset dementia would be unable to comprehend complicated events or communicate responsible reactions. This guy is worse than Woodrow Wilson in his final days in office.
If you come across any Democrat today, thank them for their wonderfulness!!!
The Five Stooges.
While I agree the attack on Israel was an intelligence fail on both the US and Israeli side of “911 proportions” and I do not support freeing up $6B to Iran (even though it’s “their money, not to be used to buy weapons”), it is too early to point fingers at Biden incompetence. I will wait and see… It seems likely IMHO that Israel was lulled into complacency with the negotiations between them and Saudi Arabia contributing to it.
There is no doubt that Joe Biden, recently endorsed by the Jewish-hating Neo-Nazi group ‘The Blood Tribe’, has a helping hand in the attack for the purposes of distracting—-again—from his failed position in the Peoples’ White House. He’s done the same with the Maui fires, the East Palestine toxic chemical train derailment, inviting into the US all sorts of illegal reprobates, sending drug paraphernalia to Kentucky, promoting illegal drug use in NYC with the assist from the Kochul woman and the false Mayor Adams, fake lockdowns, American prison hostages, using blacks and minorities as human shields and multitudes of other underhanded covert scenarios to disguise himself from being exposed as not only a domestic terrorist but as a really bad seed who’s also a mega segregaionist racist.
The Democrat Party and Neoconservative Republicans foreign policy is one of appeasement, nation building, billons of taxpayer dollars in foreign aid, etc… most of which leads to endless wars! I am a U.S. Army veteran something about this sudden attack on Israel without them knowing and the US intelligence agencies in the dark stinks…
Once agian I say this Biden is a Traitor of the American people and the constitution , he has done nothing but lie and steal from America in stead of taken us forward he has taken us backwards along with the world with it . Biden along with Obama is leading this world in to world War three . Biden needs to be impeached along with Kamala and his administration, we need to get someone in there who knows what he is doin period I didn’t vote for him I voted for Trump as I will again in 2024
A picnic on Columbus Day. What next?
Just as the invitation to world immigrants to
come to our Nation, Biden misses no nap.
A compromise to our National Security with
him laundering money with his son for decades. Without election interference we would not be in this circumstance with our peace keeping #America First President.
we must be more vigilant. Vote a strong
speaker. Call our congressman and Senators.
we much be vocal but involved. Some states have already proposed mail in ballots up to 30
days after polls!!!! Iowa is one.
They are setting another fraud. #wethepeople
must stand.
General Flynn posted the beautiful truth of committed peace through strength with Potus 45. It’s on X.
Victory will not be the corrupt.
praying for Israel.
Joe Biden all the blood in the middle east is on your hands . I did not think that a President could be so stupid. How many dead people does it take for him to realize how dumb he is.
Once again, a Democrat controlled U.S. government created the circumstances that resulted in foreign policy issues due to hostile nations and terrorist factions taking advantage of weak leadership in the U.S.
Had the Biden administration not rushed into fleeing Afghanistan in such a hurried manner, billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. weaponry would not have been left behind to be used by Islamic terrorists. How many of those weapons were used by Hamas against Israel?
Had the Biden administration been able and willing to work with Russia, as the Trump administration had done, Russia would not have invaded Ukraine. Had the Biden administration not sent billions of tax dollars and billions of dollars’ worth of weaponry to Ukraine completely unaccounted for, we may know if a corrupt Ukraine leadership sold some of those U.S. weapons to Hamas to use against Israel.
Had the Biden administration kept up on the Abraham accords, Hamas would not have been supported by Islamic nations in its attack on Israel. Iran would not have had 6 billion dollars provided by the Biden administration to aid Hamas in that attack.
In general, most of the foreign issues that the Biden administration has created would not have occurred at all. In true form, Progressive Democrats are now claiming to be actively addressing foreign issues that they created in the first place. However many citizens of the world are killed due to the wrong minded actions of the Biden administration is a bonus for Progressives who like to control population through eugenics.
Just like on September 10th, 2001, we were feeling safe behind our two oceans, Israel was lulled into a false sense of security by a lack of Hamas aggression. They forgot they are surrounded by enemies. The US should take a lesson from that regarding China in the west! China is notb”our good friend and trading partner” that politicians want us to believe.
So re the Biden administration, is it incompetence or treason? Does it matter? The results affect us all. I had not heard about the situation in Armenia. If the news does not report it, does it not exist? The whole world seems to be falling apart under Biden’s lack of leadership. Did Trump keep problems at bay, or were the antagonists just waiting for opportunity?
Joe Biden will lead the United States to its WWII. His inability to lead and the advice from advisers has caused the worst financial woes for Americans in decades, the largest decline in our military since the 1930’s, the largest divisions in our country in decades and the decline of the greatest country in the world to 3rd world status, with no leadership status nor respect throughout the world. Let here be no doubt, that ISRAEL WILL PREVAIL, HAMAS WILL BE DESTROYED AND THOUSANDS MORE OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS WILL BE KILLED, MAIMED AND THEIR LIVES DESTROYED BECAUSE OF THE WEAKNESS OF JOE BIDEN AND HIS MISHANDELING OF INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP…
Our entire administration is an incompetent c r i m i n a l organization.
What is shocking to me is the lack of loud, vocal support for Israel in the US.
The noise I am hearing and seeing is from anti-jewish groups.