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The Bush-Biden Doctrine
The American Conservative ^

Posted on 03/29/2022 6:32:53 AM PDT by FarCenter

Much has been made of Joe Biden’s instantly reversed call for regime change in Moscow. Speaking in Warsaw, the president said of Vladimir Putin, “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” The words sent his staffers scrambling to cleanup on Aisle Three and prompted European leaders to firmly distance themselves from Washington. ...

Yet as hair-raising as Biden’s Warsaw declaration was, it could be charitably—okay, extra-charitably—interpreted as a mere gaffe. Indeed, the administration’s line is that Biden was referring to Putin exercising power over Russia’s neighbors, not Russia itself. Or something. Like I said, it’s a stretch, ...

Far worse and more irreparably damaging was the statement Biden tweeted on Saturday that read: “We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom. A battle between democracy and autocracy. Between liberty and repression. This battle will not be won in days or months, either. We need to steel ourselves for the long fight ahead.”

This was no typical big-mouth Biden whoopsie-daisy. This was a deliberate, apparently considered expression of what might be called the Bush-Biden Doctrine: one that harks back to the worst of the George W. Bush years, when America was in the business of dividing the whole planet into two camps—light and dark, good and evil, free and unfree, Autobots and Decepticons. As foolish as such a Manichaean foreign policy was after 9/11, it is even more so today, because much as Biden is a feebler man than Bush at the height of his powers, so is the America of 2022 feebler than the country that set out to remake Iraq and Afghanistan.

Such posturing forces the United States to either wage war against the dozens and dozens of nations it considers undemocratic or unfree or evil or whatever—or stand exposed as the world’s hypocrite-in-chief.

(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidenismdoesntwork; bushismdoesntwork

1 posted on 03/29/2022 6:32:53 AM PDT by FarCenter
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“We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom. A battle between democracy and autocracy. Between liberty and repression. This battle will not be won in days or months, either. We need to steel ourselves for the long fight ahead.”

Wow! So were are finally taking on that autocrat in the frozen North wastelands - Trudeau. Of course it will be tough. You know those Canadians and there love of frozen anything including bank accounts.

2 posted on 03/29/2022 6:35:52 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: FarCenter

I thought he doubled down on it and is not walking it back just his staffers.


3 posted on 03/29/2022 6:36:36 AM PDT by pas
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4 posted on 03/29/2022 6:59:14 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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Such posturing forces the United States to either wage war against the dozens and dozens of nations it considers undemocratic or unfree or evil or whatever—or stand exposed as the world’s hypocrite-in-chief.”

Baloney


5 posted on 03/29/2022 7:00:01 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: AndyJackson

“We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom.”

Is he talking about vaccinations, what type car we get to buy, what clothes washer we can buy, what cake we can bake, etc.


6 posted on 03/29/2022 7:10:34 AM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: pas
I thought he doubled down on it and is not walking it back just his staffers.

Yes, he doubled down on it yesterday. Dangerous.

7 posted on 03/29/2022 7:54:33 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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