Posted on 10/03/2024 4:54:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Biden administration's approach to Iran destabilized the Middle East and led to the October 7 Hamas attack and subsequent regional chaos.
When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war.
So quiet was the inheritance from the prior Trump administration that nearly three years later, on September 29, 2023—and just eight days before the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis—Biden’s national security advisor Jack Sullivan could still brag that “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”
So, what exactly happened to the inherited calm that led to the current nonstop chaos of the present?
In a word, theocratic Iran—the nexus of almost all current Middle East terrorism and conflict—was unleashed by Team Biden after having been neutered by the Trump administration.
The Biden-Harris administration adopted a 5-step revisionist protocol that appeased and encouraged Iran and its terrorist surrogates Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
The result was a near guarantee that something akin to the October 7 massacres would inevitably follow—along with a subsequent year of violence that has now engulfed the Middle East.
First, on the 2020 campaign trail, Biden damned long-time American ally Saudi Arabia as a “pariah.”
He overturned the policies of both the previous Obama and Trump administrations by siding with the Iranian-supplied terrorist Houthis in their war on Saudi Arabia.
Biden accused the kingdom of war crimes, warning it would “be held accountable” for its actions in Yemen. Biden-Harris took the murderous Houthis off the U.S. terrorist list.
Almost immediately followed continuous Houthi attacks on international shipping, Israel, and U.S. warships—rendering the Red Sea, the entryway to the Suez Canal, de facto closed to international maritime transit.
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Chaos seems to be the goal to cause WWIII.
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This is how Democrats operate - They thrive in chaos that they create.
And it gets dems elected! Good God!
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This is just one of many idiotic things they did.
But why did Biden-Harris so foolishly ignite the Middle East?
In part, the administration naively tried to resurrect the old, discredited Obama administration notion of ‘creative tension’—of empowering a rogue Iran and its terrorists to play off Israel and the moderate Arab regimes, as a new sort of balance of power in the region.
In part, Biden-Harris was caving to increased anti-Semitism at home and the rise of powerful, pro-Palestinian groups on U.S. campuses and in critical swing Electoral College states.
In part, Biden-Harris was naïve and gullible. The two bought into the anti-Americanism and anti-Israel boilerplate of our enemies. So, they thought to make amends by seeing Iran and its terrorists as the moral equivalent of democratic, pro-American Israel.
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This is how Democrats operate - They thrive in chaos that they create.
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That’s right. They create a problem and in “solving” it, they make it worse. “Never let a crisis go to waste”.
American universities and labor unions have been in the crosshairs of Fabian socialists for over 120 years. It's going to take hard times and tough policies to pull the US out of the socialist muck.
One of Trump's first priorities ought to be the appointment of a person such as David Horowitz to lead a team of conservative academics to identify and build public support for disinfecting campuses.
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