Posted on 10/21/2021 3:14:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
In her brilliant foreign policy essay "Dictators and Double Standards," Jeane Kirkpatrick made the commonsense case for always supporting our friends and opposing our enemies. That policy might seem obvious, but Biden seems determined to pursue the opposite.
Like his Democrat predecessor Obama, whose first act in office was to remove the statue of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office, Biden is turning his back on our friends. He abandoned Bagram air base without even bothering to inform our allies in Afghanistan and fled with no apparent concern for the thousands of allied troops still in the country. He has encouraged the flood of migrants traveling through Mexico and Central America, again without discussion with those nations. His time seems reserved for long talks with Xi and Putin, and the Taliban, whom he has already supplied with $86 billion in arms and with whom he is discussing more American aid. Biden has fallen into precisely the trap that Jeane Kirkpatrick warned against.
Strong American leadership would ensure our safety by deterring our enemies and securing our alliances. Writing in the context of Jimmy Carter's weak foreign policy, a policy that negotiated the transfer of the Panama Canal and the loss of many countries to communism, Kirkpatrick warned of autocrats who had just taken control of Iran and Nicaragua and of others in Central America and Africa — and she was correct in every instance. In the name of "liberalization and democracy," the misguided Carter policy undermined leaders such as Samosa and the Shah who were friendly toward the U.S. and helped install dictators who were opposed to our interests. That approach is the hallmark of liberal foreign policy going back to Truman and JFK.
Biden's policy toward Afghanistan follows this pattern precisely.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It's not incompetence.
They didn’t fall into a trap.
It’s their anti-american goal.
Alternate Title:
Dictators, Double Standards, and the Taliban and TaliBiden Regime.
To buy time, Biden will soon release to the taliban the billions we hold. He’s wrong on every issue.
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