When the president of the United States, in concert with the Congress of the United States, lawfully appropriates and expends funds in aid of another country's war, that makes it our ally.
When we fund another country's war, when we supply it with weapons to fight that war, when we give vital satellite intelligence to wage that war, when we furnish satellite equipment to communicate, that makes it our ally.
When we pass resolutions, Republicans and Democrats alike, in favor of that country's struggle, that makes it our ally.
When Republicans and Democrats alike, sitting in Joint Session of Congress, rise in unanimous applause of the head of state of that nation, praise him to the moon, assure him of support in the war, that makes that country our ally.
Trump is trying to evade the responsibility he inherited in the normal and constitutional course of transfer of power in our Republic. Every president without exception has inherited problems, sometimes wars, upon assuming office. History seldom excuses a president who fails the test. Rather, history puts the new president to the test of rising to meet the challenge of history.
This is a war that Trump, seeking election, told us he could and would solve in one day yet now it has become intractable, entirely the fault of Joe Biden, not Trump's own party fault, not his nation's problem, certainly not Donald Trump's failure, but solely the fault of Joe Biden.
Donald Trump told us to put him in office because he was the man to solve that problem. He carefully did not say that if it didn't go his way, he would walk away from the problem.
It is unseemly to shirk responsibility in this fashion.
