Fear – of embarrassment, mistakes, admitting truth, changing one’s mind, disgrace, even COVID – seems to play a growing role in President Biden’s decision-making, with serious implications. Fear is not a good attribute in leaders on whom we depend for calm, rational decision-making.
Some will say that all politicians are sensitive to criticism, some more inept, less secure, retreating from vulnerable venues or overreacting –– to cover doubt and insecurities.
All that is true, but Biden is beginning to look a bit different. For starters, here is a president who hid in a basement during 2020, refuses questions, and – in national security and foreign policy – likes to describe himself as an expert, yet is roundly seen as having horrific judgment.
Wrote Robert Gates – a bipartisan defense secretary, former head of the CIA, and man known for understatement – in 2014: “I think he has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” See, e.g., Robert Gates Thinks Joe Biden Hasn’t Stopped Being Wrong for 40 Years.
Lest people see this as a statement of personal disaffection, Gates was Obama’s defense secretary, worked for every President since Richard Nixon, except Clinton – non-partisan.
At times, Biden seems strangely unanchored, out of step, making bad decisions, then getting intransigent, backpedaling, isolating himself. Thus, Biden’s judgment was dead wrong on Osama bi Laden, only official to oppose that mission, “fearing the blowback.” See, e.g., James Jay Carafano: Biden’s drone disaster gives Americans a bigger problem to worry about | Fox News.
Even formerly friendly media confess Biden is off. As President, things are getting worse. The gravity and irreversible effects of Biden’s bad judgment – based on fear – is the only new part.
Thus, we just witnessed an unplanned, wrong-headed abandonment of phased, conditional withdrawal from Afghanistan, intransigence on the date, capitulation to terrorists, stunning equipment, technology, and intelligence losses, giving away of a critical airbase, and unforgivable abandonment (to death, torture, imprisonment, persecution) of hundreds – likely thousands – of Americans, families, and allies.
One formerly friendly outlet concedes things are edgy, fit a pattern.
The list of Biden blunders is long. It includes betrayal in 1975 of the South Vietnamese government by withholding aid, creating a humanitarian crisis, opposing the limited Gulf War in 1991, one of our nation’s most successful and restrained – later saying George H.W. Bush should have been more aggressive.
In 2003, when many opposed hitting Iraq, Biden was an enthusiast, only to later regret it. In 2007, when George W. Bush pushed a troop “surge” in Iraq to repulse terrorism, Biden called that a “tragic mistake.” The surge stabilized the country.
In 2011, Biden was a champion – before managing Ukrainian and China for Obama, to personal gain – of precipitous withdrawal from Iraq. He called the pullout “one of the great achievements of this administration.”
Immediately, ISIS swept in, nearly wiping out Syria and Iraq. As experts note, that “sent Iraq spiraling into sectarian violence and civil war, allowing Iran to expand its influence …” along with ISIS. President Trump reversed all that. See, Biden’s Long Trail of Betrayals.
In Ukraine, Biden pressured the country to remove a prosecutor investigating his son, who was making money off connections to the older Biden. In China, Biden overlooked militarization of the high seas, space, and Far East, human rights atrocities, trade illegalities, currency manipulation, usury in foreign lending, intellectual property theft, cyber-penetration, theft of classified data, prevalence of in US education, all while facilitating – on Air Force Two – his son’s trip to China for a multimillion-dollar contract.
That brings us to “now.” What has happened? Beyond the betrayal of Americans and allies in Afghanistan, Biden seems nonplussed by rash acts, first declining to put the US military in Kabul then doing so but giving away Bagram to the Taliban. Now we learn his chain killed ten civilians, including seven children, in a drone strike.
Worse, he was silent – until Pentagon officials talked Friday. Governed by fear – Biden and his team hid, knowing they had failed to hit terrorists, claiming to be tough, knowing they killed innocents, over-the-horizon a failed approach.
In the end, this President is not just ill-suited to the post, ill-equipped, with notoriously bad judgment. He is infuriating allies, empowering adversaries, boosting terrorists, evading accountability, shading truth from fear and insecurity.
Seldom is a leader more dangerous than when insecure, aware that others know he is fearful. This is the kind of leader who begins pushing his will, telling untruths, mandating behaviors to show he is tough, misstating facts, taking rash acts.
In short, fear is not a good attribute in any leader, especially worrisome when a nation needs calm, rational, alert decision-making. One could argue pointing this out is dangerous – but then, frankly, most of the world already knows it.
Sara…Get lost !!!!! you polluting this forum !
There is no place in this forum for this type of drivel.
The idiot
Just goes to show for people who have common sense that this president is just a puppet for another organization/regime that is continually eroding the foundation that this country was built on.
RBC,
Fear and incompetence make a dangerous combination in any supposed leader. Biden’s decades long political career has been marked by one bad decision after another and he had no real accomplishments to speak of other than managing to spend 47 years in Washington.
Biden is merely the poster child for what kind of horrific events can unfold when such a leader is allowed to be elevated to POTUS and then remain in office after the predictable results one would rightly expect from someone with his record. We’re just 8 months into Biden’s term and just look at the damage he has already been able to do both domestically and on the foreign stage. One self-inflicted crisis or international incident after another. Yet the American people just choose to sit by and allow the situation to continue. That says something very profound as to where we are as a nation and not in a good way.
We ALL know, even the smart Democrats, that Biden is only good at one thing….bring an enormously successful country to its knees in record time. It only took him 5 months to practically ruin the U.S.A.Now we must stop talking about what a colossal failure he is and take action ASAP to get rid of him AND all his loser cohorts
Well let us call Biden for what he is… which is a dumb asshole.
There is no FOOL like Joe Biden. And he is our President. GOD help us.
I’m just fed up with this incompetent bafoon He’s a liar and to be blunt, a sleaze bag.
Pull the plug on the teleprompter and see how he does!
He was pompous until now, dementia is the problem, pooing his pants, is the problem! Democrats deserve him as commander in thief!
Biden needs to go!!! He doesn’t have the grace or dignity to step down by himself. He needs to be forcibly removed!!
I have said it several times before. Hunk of dung Commie Biden will not make it thru his first year.
The fearful consequence of his demise is the emergence of Harris. This trash politician is more incompetent than Commie Joe.
This President should be impeached ! The man can’t answer questions about Afghanistan, or the Southern boarder. If President Trump made these blunders, it would be all over America’s mainstream media for years ! He was handed 3 vaccines, and he’s dropped the ball on C-19. The Keystone pipeline. The stab in the back he gave to France / Australian submarine deal. The list goes on & on . He’s a failure. So is Harris. This is America’s worst nightmare come true.
Biden is incmpetant, a liar, and a humiliation to this great country of ours. He is part of the plan to “change” our country into a socialistic/communistic nation ruled and run by the government. His foreign policy decisions are disastrous and protection of our citizens is horrific at the southern border. He should be impeached ! !
This is the best synopsis of Biden’s long and inglorious political career. But these facts should be staated more clearly…JOE BIDEN IS A LIAR and JOE BIDEN IS A CRIMINAL!
And let’s add the 13,000 Haitians living under a bridge in Del Rio. Sent this to Senator Sinema today:
BORDER UNSECURED HAS GOT TO STOP. DO SOMETHING.
We were being told that that Haitians were being sent back for illegally crossing the border! AMERICANS DID NOT CAUSE THIS CRISIS.
BIDEN DEMOCRAT ADMINISTRATION DID. September 8, there were about 1000 people crossing illegally at the Del Rio border. The Biden administration HAD PLANES READY TO TAKE THEM BACK and those FLIGHTS were CANCELLED and THEY WERE TOLD they could stay here. Those 1000 called friends and family to share the news and now we have over 13,000 under the Del Rio bridge of which many are now being DISBURSED to TUCSON.
The Homeland Security Department has been busing Haitians from Del Rio to El Paso, Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas border, and this week ADDED FLIGHTS to TUCSON, ARIZONA, the official said.
U.S. authorities scrambled in recent days for buses to TUCSON but resorted to flights when they couldn’t find enough transportation contractors, both officials said.
COVID CARRIERS! I have hibernated for 18 months, wore a mask, got VACCINATED, And did all that was asked of me. AND NOW THIS! And SCHUMER DOES NOT WANT TO USE Title 42 to justify their expulsions. It is the FEDERAL HEALTH LAW that permits the expulsion of immigrants without giving them an opportunity to apply for asylum I would suspect because of COVID!
Anyone who had the least bit of knowledge of Biden’s political record should have been aware of all of Biden’s failings, faults and self egocentrism. I still maintain that the reason Obama chose Biden as his VP was because no one, of any political bent, would want anything to happen to Obama for fear that Biden would become president. And now, here we are. Between aggressive attacks of President Trump, of which all accusations have been proven to be false, and an obviously tainted mail in voting coup, liberal minded American citizens were deceived into believing that anyone, even Joe Biden, would be better in the White House than President Trump. Again, and now, here we are.
Why is anyone surprised? All this was apparent and much of it documented before the election. As some have said, don’t fear Biden and Harris; fear those who has them occupying the White House.
What happens when you steal an election so you can plant a useful idiot puppet in the oval.
Joe Biden’s long and less than mediocre political career is the perfect “Peter Principle” case study. He has literally failed upwards most, if not all, of his adult life. This man is simply incapable of performing effectively as our nation’s Chief Executive. Having reached the summit of “Peter Principle” advancement, he has nowhere to go but down. Unfortunately, epic failure is the final step in the process.
I see:
Indecision
Gulliable
Bias
Incoherent
Tone deaf
Lack awareness
& maybe Joe is a DeepFake for media
Sweat from rigged election
The anti American progressives with bernie the loser leading the way are intent on destroying Our Country and every bit of historical significance.
They hate America and will do anything they can to ruin it.
They dictate to the clown show democrat party which is too weak and pathetic to stand up to them.
Traitors,cowards are the description of democrats.
There are a lot of career criminals in the Decadent Community, Uncle Joe the 2nd is the Crime Boss. We did have a reprieve for 68 years when Joe the 1st died. You know one of the tyrants this world has had. Joe the 2nd is following in the footsteps of every wanna be tyrants, Hitler, Mussolini, and many more.
Biden never offered one piece of legislation under his name the entire 36 years he was in Congress. He just bragged about riding the government subsized train system home every weekend to Deleware.
Biden rode the gravy train his entire life, did nothing for America and now is selling us out to Communist China after his family got their $17 million (maybe more that we aren’t aware of.)
Biden’s elections to Congress should have been investigated as I can’t believe the people of Deleware are so stupid and uninformed as to have kept electing him all these decades when he did nothing in Congress.
He’s just a puppet for the real evil behind him, BHO!
It doesn’t matter what the excuse is- incompetence, dementia, treason – HE MUST GO !!!!
all this knowledge and he is still in office. Does it take a Democrat to call for impeachment or just a medical notice to resign from the “powerful office of US President” Once again shame on Congress and shame on his wife.
Do you remember the news conference in which the “journalists” badgered George W. Bush about a dozen times with variations on “Will you admit any mistakes?”
Now these idiots just bow down and kiss the feet (or something about 30 ‘ higher”) of the Senile One and his little red-headed liar!
He MUST be feeling the inadequacy complex. How much longer can his wife stand by & watch him make a fool out of himself? You’d think, if she loves him, she’d protect him!
So, um, what has happened to the wisdom of checks and balances. Anyway, just another silly fallacy. Just let it go, Joe. Don’t bother with concerning yourselves with worry about the modern kings heading the country. Or worrying about the right to choose these kings because that’s already been taken care of as well. Liberty is out of vogue these days don’t ya know, mother state will care for us well enough if we would, you know, roll over and go back to sleep! Amen
In the headline of this article, insecurity was used instead of insanity!
This administration is simply anti American.
No one will convince me that the the way we exited Afghanistan was not deliberate, the leaving of the weapons for the Taliban, etc. to use, the getting more non English speaking Afghans on those planes than Americans and English speaking Afghans. All of it was done by enemies of our country to help hasten the Communist takeover of our country.
The mess at the border, so dangerous and so ruinous to our country, is deliberate too to help bring us down.
And if they get those two bills passed, the big spending one with its cradle to grave dependency of Americans on government and the “For the people act” which nationalizes our election laws – if they get those two passed, or even one of them, we will be finished as a free country. We must stop them.
I would take rude, crude and decisive over polite, weak and “where is the ice cream” any time.
As was Hitler!
Comrade President Jackass Joe Biden, Liar in Chief, KNOWS HE is Getting Caught in His Avalanche of Lies and DOESN’T SEEM TO CARE! . . . Why is That? . . . We Slaves, EXIST TO SERVE, NOT QUESTION!!!
Uncle Tom HAS COME ALIVE As Uncle Joe!
Biden’s dementia is the main reason why he feels insecure. He know he is demented as al dementia patients come to realize eventually. He knows he is confused and has no idea what is going on so he gets angry over anything he can no longer understand. That’s why they give him an ice cream cone to remind him of happier times..
So here we go again….more stuff with Biden in the center. I have only this question….who is looking behind the curtain, under the table, and around the room? Biden is not who we should be checking out.
It is all those others who are playing behind the scenes. The “puppet masters”, the “aides”, the ones doing the leg work and going behind our backs. Shine the light on them…..never mind Biden, he’s only a front man. How about some AMAC reporters sneaking into the back rooms, putting some drones up, dropping some listening devices in the latrine? If they are going to play dirty,. why can’t the rest of us?
Stop looking at Joe……look at all the rest of these traitors and manipulators….they are the real actors. Just my opinion.
Mr Charles needs to publish this article NATIONALLY AND COMMUNICATE INFO TO THE COMPLICIT CONGRESS AS WELL
Right on,but how do you stop these entities,not only biden,but every democrat and some so called republicans.I feel that AMERICA is in very deep trouble and I am not the only one.
RBC, this is off subject. Go back to your article about “Civilians in Space” from Monday, 20 Sep 21, there is a comment from from a person asking for some help against one of the Media giants. Thanks.
For all who say “Joe must go”. I say the former CALL GIRL VP is not a better choice, plus she gets to pick her VP. How about Comrade Peloski ( she’s third in line now. Or what about that former bartender Cortez as a VP pick? Be careful what you wish for, your wishes may come true.
As an ASIDE
HOW many saw Stinkin Lyin Blinkin on You Tube Before Congress
saying Joey is right on – NO one is controlling him.
No one pulled Joey off in Mid Sentence – One could tell Stinkin was Lying
thru his teeth. A number of You tube videos show him in action. WOW!!
They are ALL rotten to the core – Right along with Sackyof. who is so smug.
Time to close the border – UP goes the wall – Pipeline back in business.
Why do those in charge ALLOW this to go and do nothing????
IF only MAGA Trump could come back.
BUT!! IF Joey goes – IN comes Hyena Woman and then what?? – Its over.
If the voting system is not fixed, the Nation will deteriorate in to Communistic Governance … altho the News Media and the DemonRats will likely find a euphemistic way to describe it.
I also find it absolutely amazing that the American people just keep tolerating each new man-made crisis of the Biden administration with barely a peep. We truly have become a nation of sheep in so many ways. Pathetic and shameful.
I guess reading this article all those so called “mean tweets” dont sound so bad afterall. Where are all these morons that supported him now? I guess there in hiding also. What a poor excuse of a leader. It’s just a matter if time before this lying, cheatin, shell of a man is removed. Not only is he an embarrassment to our nation and caused many Americans hardships., hes responsible for the loss of jobs and more importantly the loss of lives. And they wanted to impeach President Trump for a phone call. This nation needs to get back to GOD and HE will have HIS way in HIS own timing.
There it is. They are telling it to us, the actual man in power, who has been the consistant Council on Foriegn Relations member who is actually running the United States government through the CFR. The CFR has decided to get rid of Biden now. They got him elected as a “place filler” for the presidency. He has outlived his usefullness. So now the CFR has decided to get rid of him.
Gates, former CIA director, has been responsible for the internet spying on the American people. Now he has been the Defense Secretary since leaving the directorship of the CIA. Sounds really fishy to me that they call him “bi-partisan”. Supposedly, the CFR does not contain elected officials. This is so they can hide what they are doing and make the public think they are not involved in politics. They are the ones that hated Reagan and Trump because they were not part of the “inner circle” and did not go along with their socialist agenda and the “New World Order”.
Eisenhauer told us to beware of the industrial-millitary complex. Now , here is the leader put in power by that complex and the Council On Foriegn Relations.
As secretary of defense, I would have thought he would be the second person in power conducting the withdrawal from Afghanistan. So, now we know why there has been such a debacle. The CFR set Biden up to get rid of him!!!!!!!!!!! It is being used to blame Biden’s incompetence to remove him from office.
When the media calls a Democrap bipartisan, they actually mean bisexual at a minimum, and more than likely homo!!
You must have received quite a few “stimulus” checks or your unemployment funds were increased OR BOTH!!
How does all this surprise anybody? Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi combined, equal around 100 years of nothing