A Lesson for Joe Biden

American Greatness ^ | 27 Aug 2021 | Roger Kimball

[Rummyfan]

With an assist from Fyodor Dostoyevsky and H. G. Wells.

On Thursday night, Joe Biden delivered himself of brief remarks about the slaughter perpetrated earlier that day by Islamic terrorists at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan. At least 170 people were murdered, including 14 U.S. servicemen. Many more were injured. The commentator Scott Johnson spoke for most candid observers, I believe, when he wrote at Power Line that the president’s remarks were “pathetic and stupid. He gives human form to our humiliation. He embodies it. Anyone can see that.”

That is correct. And I think Fox News reporter Peter Doocy raised a question that was on many people’s minds when, near the end of Biden’s press conference, he said this: “there had not been a U.S. service member killed in combat in Afghanistan since February of 2020. You set the deadline, you pulled troops out, you sent troops back in, and now 12 Marines are dead. You said the buck stops with you. Do you bear any responsibility for the way that things have unfolded in the last two weeks?”

Biden’s answer? “Yes, but . . .” It giveth and it taketh away. The strophe: “I bear responsibility for fundamentally all that’s happened.” The antistrophe: “Donald Trump.” It was Trump who made a deal with the “tally-bahn,” you see, so, really, it’s not my fault, but his.

Does anyone, even the most thoroughgoing NeverTrump enemy of the former president, think anything like this would have happened on Trump’s watch?

There were so many horrible things about Biden’s cringe-making press conference, from the president’s body language—had he been supine, you sense that he would have curled up into the fetal position—to the gradually emerging realities that surrounded his talk.

[Rummyfan]

...the president’s remarks were “pathetic and stupid. He gives human form to our humiliation. He embodies it. Anyone can see that.”

Indeed.

[Rummyfan]

At the conclusion of his prepared remarks, it was time for questions. Biden then looked down at a piece of paper and said, aloud, “The first person I was instructed to call on . . . .”

He definitely let the cat out of the bag there.

[Leep]

Maybe biden supporters?
Biden himself is not going to learn anything.

[Deo volente]

...the president’s body language—had he been supine, you sense that he would have curled up into the fetal position

Spot on. What a disaster, an ongoing disaster and who knows how much worse it will get in the days and weeks ahead.

[Rummyfan]

Did you know that the United States is soon to be home to tens of thousands of Afghan refugees, many—if not most of them—Islamic fundamentalists? Did you know that, in its partnership with the Taliban (sounds odd doesn’t it?), the Biden Administration actually gave the Taliban the names of Americans and our Afghan allies. Yes, you read that right. “In a move no one can grasp,” Politico reported, “U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders, and Afghan allies, believing the Taliban would allow them to enter the militant-controlled outer perimeter of the city’s airport. Lawmakers and military officials are outraged.”

How about you?

Oh I'm outraged. The scope and ramifications of this fiasco just continue to grow day by day.

[BenLurkin]

"He gives human form to our humiliation. He embodies it."

[NonValueAdded]

” In other words, as the commentator Raheem Kassam observed, ‘Joe Biden gave a list of Americans to the Taliban but won’t give the names of the terrorists he claims to have retaliated against to the American public.’”

[Blood of Tyrants]

This assumes that Xiden is capable of learning.

[Rummyfan]

And one more:

Our leaders, from a mentally compromised president through the puffed-up woke triumvirate of Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd “stand down” Austin, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark “white-rage–I-read-Karl-Marx” Milley, are constitutionally incapable of taking that reality on board. They are figures fit to lead the Eloi, not patriotic Americans.

[old curmudgeon]

We know all of that.

It is time to quit yapping about it and do something to end it or at the very minimum reduce it to a manageable level.

The 25th? Impeach? Force resignation?

I hope it will be peaceful legal and soon.

[Irenic]

Biden is unteachable. No lessons for him.

[blueunicorn6]

Why waste time trying to teach him anything?

[oldbrowser]

“The first person I was instructed to call on . . . .” He definitely let the cat out of the bag there.

It was almost like a hostage trying to send a message in between the lines he was ordered to repeat.

[Buttons12]

The 25th? Impeach? Force resignation? I hope it will be peaceful legal and soon.

Amen.

It is regrettable that he let the Kamala's nose in the tent, but we can cope with her later.

[Tallguy]

True enough.

[Rummyfan]

I hope it will be peaceful legal and soon.

I think we are past that already.

[Tallguy]

Kamala is the Turn Card in the game of political Texas Hold-em. Biden sees her as impeachment/25th Ammendment insurance. Obama sees her as someone who will pick up the phone and take his orders. We’re about to see that Obama had the correct read.

[Night Hides Not]

Biden’s acting in that picture...paraphrasing Joe Stalin, “one death is a tragedy, 13 is a statistic.”

[chopperk]

Sorry,,,,,Joe is way past learning anything new, he cannot remember the names of his Cabinet members.....