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Victor Davis Hanson: Actually, Joe, All Your ‘Objectives’ Were Failures
American Greatness ^ | 21 Aug, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/21/2023 5:32:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber

"Name me a single objective we’ve ever set out to accomplish that we’ve failed on. Name me one, in all of our history. Not one!” -President Joe Biden, August 16, 2023

Joe Biden in one of his now accustomed angry “get off my grass” moods dared the press to find just one of his policies/objectives that has not worked. Silence followed.

Perhaps it was polite to say nothing, given even the media knows almost every enacted Biden policy has failed.

Here is a summation of what he should instead apologize for.

Biden in late summer 2021 sought a 20th anniversary celebration of 9/11 and the 2001 subsequent invasion of Afghanistan. He wished to be the landmark president that yanked everyone out of Afghanistan after 20 years in country. But the result was the greatest military humiliation of the United States since the flight from Vietnam in 1975.

Consider the ripples of Biden’s disaster. U.S. deterrence was crippled worldwide. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea almost immediately began to bluster or return to their chronic harassment of U.S. and allied ships and planes. We left thousands of allied Afghans to face Taliban retribution, along with some Western contractors.

Biden abandoned a $1 billion embassy, and a $300 million remodeled Bagram airbase strategically located not far from China and Russia, and easily defensible. Perhaps $50 billion in U.S. weaponry and supplies were abandoned and now find their way into the international terrorist mart.

All our pride flags, our multimillion gender studies programs at Kabul University, and our George Floyd murals did not just come to naught, but were replaced by the Taliban’s anti-homosexual campaigns, burkas, and detestation of any trace of American popular culture.

Vladimir Putin sized up the skedaddle. He collated it with Biden’s unhinged quip...

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: biden; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 08/21/2023 5:32:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

2 posted on 08/21/2023 5:34:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 08/21/2023 5:34:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Bump


4 posted on 08/21/2023 5:36:52 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hanson, why are you pretending the POTATUS is in charge?!


5 posted on 08/21/2023 5:37:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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Hanson, why are you pretending that BIDEN failed? His object was to scam for personal gain whatever opportunity available, looks like he was successful with most!

Side note.... explains why he keeps using the phase “come on man”.... like come on man, send the wire....

6 posted on 08/21/2023 5:44:01 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: MtnClimber
Perhaps it was polite to say nothing, given even the media knows almost every enacted Biden policy has failed...

And therein is the crux of the problem: The main stream media does little else but carry Joe's water. Both Hunter and Joe should be in jail by now. While that's put Kamala at the helm, I'm sure the Deep State will find a fast way to take her out, but that puts the Speaker of the House in play. So, I think they'll keep Kamala in power, but control the marionette strings.

7 posted on 08/21/2023 6:01:46 AM PDT by econjack
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To: MtnClimber

An incompetent President but a competent crook.

The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.


8 posted on 08/21/2023 6:01:57 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: MtnClimber
The Buyden is not the failure he seems to be. He took money to do favors. He got the money which I think was his goal all along. He was called The Godfather at that time. I think that persons dead not and a series of actors have been wearing a mask. The question is who is still pulling the strings?
9 posted on 08/21/2023 6:14:33 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: Lockbox

Well Biden certainly did fail America, and did it big time, too. He may well have done it at the expense of enriching himself, but it’s likely a good thing he will have plenty of personal security when he leaves the WH...which can’t come soon enough.


10 posted on 08/21/2023 6:17:36 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: MtnClimber
If further evidence shows he altered U.S. foreign policy in accordance with the wishes from his benefactors in Ukraine, China, or Romania, then he committed constitutionally-defined “treason” as well.

And the vast majority of American Presstitutes are just as GUILTY because they CHOSE to be Co-Conspirators to TREASON. Round all of them up and send them to Club Gitmo for eternity.
11 posted on 08/21/2023 6:22:00 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: MtnClimber

That graphic is fake! No way Joe could ever have a positive score.


12 posted on 08/21/2023 6:29:36 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: All

"Get outta here...cant you see I'm working on my objectives."

13 posted on 08/21/2023 6:36:13 AM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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To: MtnClimber

One of Lieden’s campaign promises was to cure cancer if he was elected.


14 posted on 08/21/2023 6:43:08 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: MtnClimber

It’s a good list, but why are we not hearing about these things every day from Repubicans leaders?

Romney’s niece is worried about how to attract independent voters? Read the list, babe. Maybe VDH will break it down into smaller words for you.


15 posted on 08/21/2023 6:45:24 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Flag_This
That graphic is fake! No way Joe could ever have a positive score.

He was probably cheating then too. Bet he has an earpiece and someone is feeding him the answers.

16 posted on 08/21/2023 7:01:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Alberta's Child; Alouette; AndyJackson; Aria; Basket_of_Deplorables; BatGuano; beaversmom; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Finally, Biden’s most glaring failure was simply being unpresidential. He snaps at reporters, and shouts at importune times. He can no longer read off a big-print teleprompter. Even before a global audience, he cannot kick his lifelong creepy habit of turkey-gobbling on children necks, blowing into their ears and hair of young girls, and squeezing women far too long and far too hard.

His frailty redefined American presidential campaigning as basement seclusion and outsourcing propaganda to the media. And his disabilities only intensified during his presidency. Biden begins his day late and quits early. He has recalibrated the presidency as a 5-hour, 3-day a week job.

If Trump was the great exaggerator, Biden is our foremost liar. Little in his biography can be fully believed. He lies about everything from his train rides to the death of his son to his relationship with Biden-family foreign collaborators, to vaccinations to the economy. Anytime Biden mentions places visited, miles flown, or rails ridden, he is likely lying.

A simply excellent essay on the world of Biden by Prof Hanson. Well worth your time today!

FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR

Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall

American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness

His website: Victor Davis Hanson

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17 posted on 08/21/2023 7:02:21 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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While Biden is a serial liar and likely pockets millions in bribes paid by foreign oligarchs to his crime family, are all of these policy disasters solely of his making? Biden is befuddled if not totally senile and many major decisions are being made in his name by a shadowy cabal of leftists and Obama administration retreads. These feckless policies are likely the product of a disjointed group of hard core leftists whose ambition is to transform America into a one party socialist state. Their strategy was to use clueless Biden to implement their takeover riding on a media generated Trump loathing. What is now their undoing is Biden’s increasing senility and the hard to ignore revelations about how he and his family were willing recipients of millions of dollars from foreign interests in exchange for political favors.

Biden is increasingly seen as damaged goods and his basement campaign strategy won’t work in 2024. The big question is if not senile Joe as the Democrats candidate in 2024 then who?


18 posted on 08/21/2023 7:12:01 AM PDT by The Great RJ ( )
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To: econjack
“The main stream media does little else but carry Joe's water.”

They’d happily carry his filled diaper if KJP offered it to them at a press conference.

19 posted on 08/21/2023 7:25:56 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: MtnClimber

“Bidenomics is a synonym for printing up to $6 billion dollars”

He must mean TRILLION...


20 posted on 08/21/2023 7:41:38 AM PDT by Migraine
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