During his first term in office, President Trump ended the Iranian nuclear agreement which the Iranians had already broken numerous times. He pulled us out of the Paris Climate Accord which benefited us in no way but obligated us to pay out huge sums of money to countries who had no intention of using green energy. He shamed members of NATO into paying more for their own defense instead of expecting us to foot the bill for it all. He orchestrated the destruction of the ISIS Caliphate, scattering those whose weren’t killed. He faced down North Korea and got them to stop testing their missiles over South Korea, Japan, and Guam. He saw to it that several high-ranking terrorist leaders were taken out by drones, including one who was a top leader in Iran, responsible for the deaths of many Americans. He helped broker peace deals between several Arab countries and Israel. He planned the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, and with Mike Pompeo, also laid contingency plans for how to respond if the Taliban attempted to overtake the country as we withdrew. And best of all, he kept us out of war.
But the Democrats sneered at these accomplishments, assuring us that this was bumbling diplomacy at best and that they could do a much better job. “Just wait,” they said, “until the adults are back in the White House!” And, because much was made of President Trump’s tendency to tweet in response to attacks from others, and because the mainstream media is the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, they and some congressional Democrats lied repeatedly about comments the President had made, left out portions of his sentences when reporting them, or simply twisted them. And many gullible people believed them. And, with
some illegal election changes “due to COVID” and some questionable voting, “the adults” were in the White House.
So how have “the adults” done on the foreign scene, where they assured us they were so competent? To begin with, Biden dozed off on camera during a presser with the Prime Minister of Israel while the Prime Minister was speaking. Then in Europe for a Summit, Biden had to be woken during speeches by an aide, and at another time, repeatedly patted on the arm by Boris Johnson as if to say, “It’s okay, we’ve got it under control.”
Then Biden decided to do as Trump had planned and pull our troops out of Afghanistan. He did not warn our allies as to when or how we were leaving the country. He had our troops abandon Bagram airbase, which would have been the easiest place to evacuate from, in the middle of the night without telling the Afghani commander who simply woke up to find the American soldiers all gone. He did not warn nor did he evacuate the thousands of Americans and the thousands more Afghanis who had been promised a home in the U.S. because of their help as guides and translators throughout the war.
The British Prime Minister called him to complain. He didn’t take the call and only called him much later. The British and French scrambled to evacuate their people, sending armored vehicles out into the city to collect them and bring them to the airport. The Americans were told to get to the airport on their own and the Taliban, who by now had taken control of Kabul, were given biometrics, names, and pictures of both Americans and Afghanis who were to be “allowed” to pass through their checkpoints to the airport. Instead, many had their passports stolen by the Taliban, some were beaten up, and the information was later used to hunt down and murder many of the Afghanis who were, along with thousands of American citizens, eventually left behind. A British general offered to pick up some Americans and the American officer in charge at the airport told him no, not wanting to be embarrassed, no doubt. The British ignored the American and rescued some U.S. citizens anyway.
The British were so incensed by Biden’s actions that Parliament voted to censor Biden, making this the first time in history that a sitting president of the United States has been censored by the British Parliament! The “adults” are in the White House!”
At the Bagram airbase was a prison filled with terrorists. The Taliban released them all and of course, one of them blew himself up a few days later at the Kabul airport, killing 13 American soldiers and countless Afghanis. But planes flew out of the airport, some of them with people hanging to and eventually falling from their wings. Few of the people who arrived in the U.S. in those planes were American citizens or the Afghanis who should have been on them. How many of them may have actually been terrorists, we will not know until they carry out an attack inside the U.S.
It is now months later and Americans are still left in Afghanistan. We can only hope they are still alive. But attention has left Afghanistan because for weeks, Biden assured us that Putin was going to invade Ukraine. And so, of course, finally Putin did. But Ukrainians are fighting back and so the war rages on. And what of the Americans who were in Ukraine? Oh, Biden’s administration told them they were on their own because the U.S. was not going to make any effort to evacuate them!
Now, Biden found himself in a bit of a quandary. He wanted to resurrect the Iranian nuclear deal of Obama’s and had asked Putin to help negotiate it. Yet, American sympathies lay mostly with the smaller country of Ukraine, suddenly and without provocation being attacked by the much larger Russia. We currently buy 3% of our oil from Russia, since of course we are no longer allowed to use the great reserves of gas and oil that lie below the surface of our own country thanks to Biden. So, Americans overwhelmingly wanted Biden to stop buying gas from Russia. So, three problems here. This is an election year. Don’t anger the voters by buying gas from Russia when they see Russia as an evil aggressor (which Putin has made them here). But, if you don’t, gas prices go even higher than they are which also will anger voters. But don’t anger Putin so that he manages to muff up the Iranian nuclear deal! What to do? What to do?
So, Biden put in calls to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to ask them to pump more oil in an effort to lower gas prices. Both leaders refused to take his phone call. Thus, he is now trying to buy oil from Iran whose people shout “Death to America!” and Madura’s Venezuela, which Madura, a despot, has turned from a prosperous country into a cesspit, and if Americans on the whole find out about all of this back door dealing, that may not make them happy voters in November either. Which, of course, is exactly why no one but Fox, NewsMax, and online conservative news sites provide this sort of information.
Then there is the southern border of the United States which is both a domestic and international problem. President Trump was building a wall along the border and had initiated a “stay in Mexico” deal with Mexico that had considerably slowed the number of illegal border crossings. But things are changing. Biden immediately stopped construction on the wall. He stopped the stay in Mexico program but was forced to reinstate it. However, it doesn’t really work because, without the wall and any serious border protection, Mexico eventually releases the illegals in small groups from various Mexican points and they cross the border like trails of ants in your kitchen. And once in, they disappear.
Throughout the last year, while American citizens were being threatened with vaccine mandates, illegal aliens were allowed into the country, even when they were COVID positive, without ever being required to be vaccinated. In addition, to relieve the pressure on the border towns, they were loaded onto planes and flown in the middle of the night into cities all over the country. The vast majority of those who are actually caught by the border patrol are young, single males. Gang members? Terrorists? Certainly, they are no longer only Central Americans. Over 40 different countries from around the world have been represented. We no longer have a country because a country has borders and laws.
A young American soldier missed a turn on a bridge entrance and ended up in Mexico. What happened to him? He was in prison for months before he was finally released. No civilized country in the world allows anyone to simply stroll in and stay because they want to. But Democrats find the idea of borders and laws protecting those borders to be repugnant. They will no longer call them illegal aliens although an alien is someone who does not belong here and if they come here through breaking the law, they are, in fact, illegal. Now, however, we must use terms such as “migrant” or “undocumented noncitizen.” Without these undocumented noncitizens we would not have as much fentanyl flowing into our towns. Border patrol reports a 4,000% increase in the amount of fentanyl that they have seized! How much more is getting through, flown in on Biden’s flights to your city? Without these undocumented noncitizens we would have fewer violent gangs. Without these undocumented noncitizens we would have fewer human traffickers doing business here. But Democrats never consider the problems that their “humanitarian” ideas might actually produce. It never occurs to them that this country, large as it is, cannot hold the poor of the world. Nor are they apparently aware of the words of Jesus who reminds us, “The poor you will always have with you. . .”(Matthew 26:11).
But this is life with the Democrats. And in my opinion, if this is the way “the adults” handle foreign relations, give me back “the kids” any day!