By William Haupt III | The Center Square contributor
"The only thing worse than fighting with your
allies, is fighting without them."
– Winston Churchill
Since World War II, the U.S.-based international order of
global alliances that promoted peace for America and her allies has been
unraveling. During President Jimmy Carter's reign, we witnessed the rise of
global terrorism when he failed to support the 1979 Shah-led Iran revolution.
This legitimatized militant Islamists in the Middle East, which led to the
global terrorist attacks and the horrific events of 9/11 in America.
Barack Obama's foreign-policy missteps further eroded
U.S. security. He failed to protect American interests in Afghanistan. His
misread of the Arab spring increased instability in the region. He failed to
improve relations between Israel and Palestine. Four Americans were killed in
Benghazi without retaliation. During Obama's reign, America's influence on the
international stage became oblivious.
When Biden announced his "Dream Team" of
foreign policy experts, reporters were “swooning” over this group of Obama
retreads as if they had just won WWIII. Yet these reporters and pundits were
idolizing the same group that just a mere decade ago presided over absolute
chaos abroad.
Everyone on Biden's "team" is an Obama retread.
That should raise a white flag! Obama's foreign policy was to be nice to our
enemies and turn our backs on our allies. Most past presidents chose respected
advisers like Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger, John Foster Dulles and Mike
Pompeo, who improved America's influence on the world stage. Biden's motley
crew has a record of surrendering long before the fight even starts.
"There is no pure competitor to the United
States."
– Colin Powell
Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been a
career Biden aide. He was deputy security adviser and deputy secretary of state
under Obama. He supported Obama's catastrophic decision to bomb Libya that
unleashed a violent civil war. He helped start a war that will go on for
eternity.
Jake Sullivan, a 44-year-old former aide to Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, is Biden’s choice for national security adviser.
Sullivan was Clinton's deputy chief of staff during the 2012 attacks on the
U.S. in Benghazi. He was unconcerned that Clinton used private email for
official state business.
By resuscitating establishment left wing Obama-crats for
his foreign policy team, Biden is trying to sell Americans a bill of goods. He
wants us to believe U.S. foreign policy was great before Donald Trump destroyed
America’s image and influential position as the dominant leader of the free
world.
"My goal is to restore the former world order that
we had when Barack was president."
– Joe Biden
Under Donald Trump, America’s power was unrivaled. He
notched key foreign-policy successes in the Middle East and was the first U.S.
president that challenged a Red Chinese dictator and won hands down. He raised
global awareness of China's technology that threatens cyber security and brought
Beijing to its knees with a new trade deal. He stopped China's land-grab in the
China Sea, and moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem without even a
whimper from Palestine.
”We will be a country of generosity and warmth and a
country of law and order."
– Donald Trump
In post 9/11 America, all roads lead to Afghanistan and
the Taliban. Next to Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the 2001
bombing of the World Trade Center in New York by al-Qaeda led by Osama bin
Laden and Afghan terrorists is embedded in the memories of all Americans
forever.
Within days, George Bush formed a coalition including
Canada, Australia, Germany, France and the UK to bomb Afghanistan and destroy
the Taliban. Operation Enduring Freedom killed Abdul Rashid Dostum, their
military leader, and the Taliban regime rapidly came undone. Over the next few
weeks, the Taliban retreated and the UN sent peacekeepers to Afghanistan to
promote stability.
Establishing law and order in Afghanistan has been a
two-decade battle. Like other terrorists, the Taliban quickly regrouped and
resumed raising "hell"! Obama escalated the war when we had a chance
to make peace. Attempts by Trump's advisers to negotiate a truce lacked public
support.
"We will not let radical Islam ideology continue to
oppress the people of the world."
– Donald Trump
With the help of America in 2020, the Taliban and the
Afghan government met in Doha, Qatar after nearly 20 years of war. Both sides
wanted peace and a cease-fire was called. It was agreed the U.S. would start
removing troops, but only as long as peace was maintained.
When Biden campaigned we would pull our troops out of
Afghanistan, he literally gave the nation to the Taliban. The Taliban took
total control of Afghanistan and reopened their terrorist camps. Biden gave
Afghanistan back to the Taliban so they can retrain radical terrorists to
attack America again.
While Joe Biden gloats over deserting Afghanistan, the
Taliban is humiliating America. His retreat from Afghanistan is worse than
Obama ignoring the Arab Spring. The Taliban marched into Kabul, murdered
hundreds of civilians, and declared radical Islamic law. The U.S. embassy has
told all Americans to find a way out. Refugees are fleeing to the airport,
begging to escape persecution. Due to Biden's incompetence, we couldn't even
protect our own citizens or our embassy in Kabul.
U.S. Gen. in Afghanistan Scott Miller said that we not
only left thousands of innocent civilians in the hands of the Taliban, but we
left over a million dollars of weapons at the U.S. base, Bagram Airfield. And
these are already in the hands of the Taliban, which they will use on us
someday!
Ronald Reagan said, "We cannot have peace by
avoiding conflict." Biden's team of foreign policy makers flunked their
first test. Biden hoped fellow progressives would jump for joy with a headline
"Biden Ends The Afghan War!'' Yet by allowing the Taliban to violate the
treaty they signed in 2020 to end the Afghan civil war, Americans will someday
soon see a different headline: "Taliban Terrorists Strike Again."
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no
possibility of real peace."
– Dalai Lama
There's a big difference between enforcing your will as
the world's policeman and being a global peacekeeper. Thousands of American
troops have been stationed in South Korea for years even though the Korean War
ended some 70 years ago. The mindset of a successful U.S. president has always
been that a defensive peace is far better than an offensive war in an
unpredictable region.
The Biden team refuses to talk with Pyongyang unless they
abandon all nuclear weapons? Both he and VP Harris have spoken against India's
Hindu government. China has already started to renew the trade war with the
U.S. And the Middle East is elated with America's new energy dependence. Biden
called Russia the biggest enemy of the U.S. and scolded the UK for leaving the
EU. Biden's domestic policy might annihilate our economy but his inept foreign
policies might kill us someday.
"I consider myself to be as informed on American
foreign policy as anyone in America."
– Joe Biden
