In an election season when the Democratic Party is all style over substance, it is worth revisiting not the most consequential foreign policy decision of the Biden-Harris administration, but perhaps the most emblematic of their established pattern of placing domestic political priorities over real-world security concerns. Namely, the ill-fated floating pier for aid delivery to Gaza.

Friday was the third anniversary of President Joe Biden’s disastrous decision to ignore the advice of his generals and choose a purely political timeline to remove all troops from Afghanistan in time for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. It was an act of pure political hubris that cost 13 servicemembers their lives and made America look weak throughout the region.