Liz Peek: Biden, Blinken failing – weak, feckless leadership creating series of disasters, hurting US

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The Biden White House is in free fall. The president’s approval ratings continue to decline and are likely to deteriorate as Americans digest the disasters of the past few days and place the blame right where it belongs – on Joe Biden.

When we sum up the killing of innocents in Afghanistan, the illegal entry of tens of thousands of unvaccinated Haitians into our country, the abusive treatment of France, that country’s first ally, and the FDA’s dismantling of the president’s coronavirus booster plan, we come concluded that our country is led by an arrogant man of modest abilities who has surrounded himself with mediocre talent.

These disasters are not lightning strikes or other acts of God; These are horrors that result from foolish policies poorly implemented. Joe Biden has taken on each of these mishaps.

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Biden hopes everything will pass so he can get back to the more important business of “transforming” our country, but putting Afghanistan in the rearview mirror will be difficult. Weekly, if not daily, reports of the Taliban’s atrocities will remind us of Biden’s listless determination to hastily leave the country against the advice of his military.

What will certainly not blow your mind is the growing awareness of Biden’s weakness. The president knows he’s not a smart man.

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Over the years, he has attacked those who dare to question his academic achievements and lied about his achievements in law school. He has also been caught plagiarizing more than once. Only those who doubt their intellectual abilities will lie about their status and steal thoughts and speeches from someone else.

The American president doesn’t have to have a cafeteria-level IQ. However, he needs to know what he doesn’t know. He needs humility and insight to hire talented people and listen to their advice.

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It’s not Biden. His military advisers told him the Afghan government could not hold and the Taliban could quickly take over the country. He knew better.

He didn’t choose an A-Team either, and that is particularly evident in America’s dealings with other nations.

Biden’s survey on foreign policy is grim, with only 40% agree and 54% disagree.

Foreign Minister Antony Blinken helped get these bad marks. His first high-profile diplomatic mission was when he met his Chinese counterparts in Alaska in March, where he was humiliated by Beijing’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi.

Blinken spoke of global concern (because he wants to represent the world and not just the US) about China’s human rights violations, but instead of the expected brief diplomatic response from Yang, received a 15-minute speech in tongues about American racism and efforts to export democracy .

As the challenges facing the United States increase, especially from China, we cannot afford weak and feeble leadership.

The secretary was not prepared for the verbal attack; he was prepared to be hailed as the envoy of the new non-Trump administration. He was wrong, but worse, he couldn’t hold his own against Yang and instead projected weakness.

Presumably with Blinken’s blessing, Biden asked Vladimir Putin for a summit earlier this year and had to bribe the reluctant Russian leader by lifting sanctions on companies building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. This was an unimaginable gift to an opponent who in the past stalled natural gas exports to Ukraine for political reasons.

This is not the only time our president has been turned away. Apparently, Biden recently asked China President Xi Jinping to meet in a 90-minute phone call and was declined. Although Biden later said the account of the conversation was “not true,” many sources confirmed the humiliating back and forth.

Most recently, Blinken managed to insult the French, which led to their highly unusual decision to withdraw their ambassador. He brought the United States, Australia, and Britain together in a joint defense pact that would give Australia the American tools it needs to build nuclear submarines, with the aim of challenging Beijing’s growing strength in the Indo-Pacific.

The loser of the deal is France, our oldest ally, who signed a $ 66 billion contract to build submarines for Australia. Most offensive: Apparently, Paris only found out about the deal hours before it was publicly broadcast. Not giving France a private heads-up is an unforgivable snub.

But Blinkens shortcomings were most visible in dealing with the Afghanistan catastrophe. When interviewed by members of Congress, he was evasive about the number of Americans and green card holders remaining in the country or how we could negotiate their release. His performance was offensive.

Throughout the Afghanistan withdrawal, it was clear that the State Department had made inadequate plans for evacuating or housing refugees who ended up living in misery.

Against critics, Blinken quickly blamed the Trump administration and declared: “We have inherited a deadline. We have inherited no plan.”

None of these things are true. There was a plan outlining the conditions for troop withdrawal, and there was no “deadline”. In fact, the Biden team postponed the deadline – twice.

Blinken has continued to promise that the Taliban will treat Americans and their own people with respect and said we will “keep the Taliban up to the expectations of the international community”. As if the Taliban would change their decision to forbid girls from education beyond the sixth grade if they were criticized by the “international community”.

Blinken is a globalist with cards who believes the squishy feel-good nonsense that led President Clinton to encourage China’s entry into the World Trade Association and who argues that Iran is dying to rejoin the family of nations. These people encourage our adversaries and weaken our alliances.

It’s possible that Biden himself orchestrated some of these embarrassments, like begging Xi for a seat. However, if Blinken is unable to guide and reasonably advise the President, he should resign.

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As the challenges facing the United States increase, especially from China, we cannot afford weak and feeble leadership.

We cannot afford to put America in second place.

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