Posted on 08/30/2021 5:10:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
After largely burying any serious look into the origins of the Coronavirus pandemic for four months when he assumed office in January, President Biden finally gave into to strong public pressure in late May and ordered a 90-day review by the intelligence community into that critical question. This week, Biden’s team completed that top-to-bottom review of the available intelligence, and, as so many predicted from the outset, it drew no conclusion on where the deadly virus came from -- whether it was engineered as part of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bioweapons research in a lab in Wuhan, China, or spread naturally from animals to humans, possibly in a market in the same city.
Although CCP leaders and a number of U.S. companies and institutions that do business with them would like to use the inconclusive Biden report to move past holding China accountable for the spread of the pandemic, the review should in no way dissuade our leaders from doing so. If anything, it should hasten that effort.
The central question on the virus origins is no trivial matter, as the pandemic in less than two years to date has cost over 630,000 lives in the U.S., or the same number killed in the Civil War, and over 4.5 million worldwide. And, despite broad radio silence by most media outlets and Big Tech during the Presidential election year 2020 on China’s possible culpability in engineering the virus, by the time that the newly installed President Biden announced his 90-day review this May, a global consensus had emerged in the affirmative on that very issue.
Summing up the research of Nicholas Wade, Katherine Eban, Jim Geraghty and others from earlier in the year, National Review’s Andrew McCarthy concluded shortly after Biden's decision that the lab leak theory was proven “beyond a reasonable doubt.” He wrote, “Unless and until China comes forward with convincing evidence that the lab-leak theory is wrong, the position of the United States and the world must be that China is culpable. We should stop spouting the untenable and irresponsible drivel that, because the case is ‘circumstantial,’ the truth may never be known. We know plenty.”
Since McCarthy wrote that, we actually know even more. CCP officials took a number of steps to block Biden’s 90-day review, including refusing to give U.S. investigators access to the Wuhan lab and other critical information and "push[ing] fringe theories including that the virus slipped out of a lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland, in 2019.” Also, despite China’s refusal to cooperate with the inconclusive review, its Foreign Ministry spokesman slammed the report this week as an attempt to “frame China.” If the CCP had nothing to hide, why would it behave this way?
For this reason, even though the Biden report fails to come to a conclusion on the virus origins, China’s own stonewalling and reaction to its release actually gives us even more reason than before to suspect it did, in fact, originate in the Wuhan lab. That alone justifies Biden’s 90-day effort, and means we should hasten, rather than dismiss, efforts to hold the CCP accountable for the death and misery its pandemic has wrought over the last two years.
Accountability for unleashing such a devastating pandemic from a government bioweapons lab can take a number of forms. To their credit, House Republicans under Leader Kevin McCarthy in June proposed an eight-point-plan for doing so, including allowing for greater sanctions against Chinese leaders, waiving sovereign immunity to allow U.S. families to sue the Chinese government for damages from the virus, and preventing China from hosting the 2022 Olympics. A number of much harsher steps are also contemplated in some quarters, such as sanctioning companies who do business in China, a wholesale decoupling of economic relations with the country, reparations or charges cutting into the U.S. debt to China, and regular visits to Taiwan by U.S. and Quad-country naval ships and combat aircraft.
Without a doubt, these are all significant measures with enormous attendant risks for our security and economic well being, at least in the short and medium-term. Yet the CCP’s culpability in engineering and unleashing the virus, and driving a large-scale effort to cover it up -- as its actions in response to the Biden report suggest strongly to be the case -- merit our leadership in fact contemplating such a menu of possible actions. Under such a scenario, we can give the CCP until November 1 to disprove that the virus came from its bioweapons lab, and in the meantime contemplate the actions that we will take in response. If there is no resolution to the contrary, the plan can then take effect beginning January 1. The hundreds of thousands of Americans who died in the pandemic deserve no less than our considering such a course of action, and Biden’s 90-day review actually gave us even more reason to do so.
We paid for Wuhan to make the virus and Fauci signed the check. Fauci needs to be held accountable too. The US is a sadistic villain here in this. Fauci should be so confronted everytime he would even try to do a facetime interview - it’s a messed up world that he’s still doing interviews.
That’ll be the day.
pedo joe xiden will NOT go against his bosses ever.
Circular firing squad+self-inflicted gunshot suicides?
Go for it!
(...and then he wakes up)
We cannot even hold bidet accountable for his fiascos here so how can we expect that dope to hold China culpable for what it did. The country has slipped off its roots I fear and is not coming back. I can see now what drove the south to revolt in 1860. To paraphrase a tv ad: the country fell down and cannot get up. Unfortunately there are few who hear the call. We’re there more they would have stormed the DC jail, today’s bastille, and freed those patriots from outrageous imprisonment without trial in contravention to the sixth and 8th amendments.
Bingo. Despite them being banned gain-of-function experiments, Fauxi paid for it with our tax money.
Charge the cook when the meth lab blows up but also charge the drug kingpin he was cooking it for. In this case, since gain-of-function wasn't banned in Communist China, they're guilty of negligent manslaughter while Fauxi is guilty under felony murder.
What did they expect, a live video of the bat lady releasing the virus. Circumstantial is all we will ever have. It's plenty.
How about the guys who brought the Gain Of Function research to the communist Chinese? Anthony Fauci and Peter Daszak of Ecco Health Alliance and millions of tax payer dollars?
This article is full of s..t.
Fauci is responsible up to his eyeballs! Obama shut down this dangerous research here in the U.S. done by Fauci but the weasel didn’t stop.
Look up his statement from 2012 when he was confronted about his dangerous Gain Of Function research.(Genetically engineering viruses) he said it is dangerous but worth the risk.
They took a Bat virus,a Corona virus injected a spike protein which allowed this virus to penetrate human cells where it could not before,they created this pandemic,Fauci should be in jail
It's as if they have all taken oaths to defy logic and gratuitously reject proved and basic facts of an issue.
Now as never before, it's dangerous to waste time and resources on incessant ideological challenges to EVERYTHING, while delaying action on urgent issues
You lie
I'd like to know just HOW we are supposed to do this!
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