President Biden refuses to take responsibility for his role in several crises that he created, which have plagued his administration and are now dragging down his approval ratings.
These events didn’t happen to him, they happened because of him and his poor decisions.
Biden has repeatedly used the death of his son to soften any criticism of his Afghanistan withdrawal. He did it repeatedly in meetings with parents of the U.S. service members killed by a suicide bomber at the airport in Kabul. But Beau Biden died of cancer. These young soldiers and Marines died because Biden allowed the Kabul airport to be surrounded by the Taliban too quickly for an orderly U.S. withdrawal.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki invoked Biden’s dead son again, this time to try and soften the blow of the administration’s decision to launch a drone strike that killed an aid worker, seven children, and two others. That rushed drone strike was intended to be a strike against terrorists — a response to the terrorist attack at the airport. The administration initially claimed that it could “confirm that two high-profile ISIS targets were killed, one wounded, and we know of zero civilian casualties.” It’s pretty gross that when this massacre was revealed, Beau Biden once again became the White House’s excuse.
MG Taylor: Yesterday, U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation against an ISIS-K planner and facilitator. […] I can confirm now that two high-profile ISIS targets were killed, one wounded, and we know of zero civilian casualties. pic.twitter.com/VTEtsamXzl
— Department of Defense ?? (@DeptofDefense) August 28, 2021
Neither the 13 U.S. service members lost nor the 10 civilians killed by a hasty drone strike have anything to do with Biden’s son. This is not empathy: Biden is trying to draw sympathy for his own loss in order to avoid discussing failures for which he is responsible.
This extends to other crises and beyond Biden himself. Jonathan Lemire of the Associated Press absurdly described the drone strike, along with Biden’s plan for COVID-19 booster shots not being approved and France recalling its ambassador, as “uncontrollable events.” At least two of the three are direct consequences of choices he made.
The Pentagon admitted its errant drone strike. COVID boosters did not get full approval. France recalled its ambassador
The punishing headlines, all within an hour, underscored the perils for a president from uncontrollable events that can define a term https://t.co/Vjnakmdvr2
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) September 18, 2021
The drone strike was authorized by the Biden administration. France recalled its ambassador because it was snubbed by a deal the United States made with Australia. Biden’s booster plan, the least controllable, was nonetheless clearly too broad and would have done little to protect anyone not part of a vulnerable population (such as the elderly). These events were not “uncontrollable” for Biden.
Add to this Biden’s disastrous border policies, which now have thousands of migrants flocking to Del Rio, Texas, an unsanitary wreck of a shanty town, with bogus asylum claims. This is happening because of Biden’s aversion to immigration enforcement.
So no, Biden is no victim. He is facing several crises, nearly all of them of his own making. His play for sympathy is out of place, and, to the extent that it involves exploiting his own son’s death for sympathy, it’s kind of disgusting.
The media need to start demanding answers from Biden and stop humoring this idea that he is a powerless bystander as crisis after crisis breaks out on his watch.
