The Steady and Experienced Leadership of President Joe Biden
Neither Trump nor any of the other 2024 presidential candidates could have handled the recent crisis in the Middle East.
Issue #568 The Choice, Monday, April 15, 2024
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On Saturday, April 13, 2024, Iran launched several hundred armed drones against Israel, ostensibly in retaliation for Israel’s April 1 attack on the Iranian consulate building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria that killed 16 people. Yemen also participated in the drone attacks.
President Joe Biden was spending the weekend at his beach house in Delaware, but immediately came back to Washington and met with some of the members of the National Security Council (NSC), including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Vice President Kamala Harris is also a member of the NSC and joined the meeting by secure video chat as she was traveling.
Ninety-nine percent of the drones were immediately shot down and destroyed before they reached Israel by the United States and the coalition of partners assembled by President Biden, including some of the NATO countries and the Kingdom of Jordan.
President Biden could immediately call on and count on the assistance of those partners because he and Madam VP have been working closely with them and nurturing those relationships since they took office in 2021.
Saturday night, President Biden called PM Netanyahu and advised him to “take the win” and to be very careful about escalating the attacks.
On Sunday, President Biden spoke to each of the G7 members to update them, again counting on the relationships he has built up with them over decades.
My first thought, while these events were happening, was that I was so glad Joseph R. Biden, Jr. is president and the Democrats are mostly in charge right now instead of Donald J. Trump and the Republicans:
- Trump immediately lied (again) and stated that Iran wouldn’t have attacked if he was president, when in fact Iran did attack a U.S. base in January of 2020, with 100s of injuries to American soldiers, including several with severe brain trauma. Trump told his people to say that there were “no severe injuries and that the soldiers just had some bad headaches.”
- Some Republicans immediately called for the U.S. to attack and go to war with Iran, even though America just recently emerged from twenty years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, although the majority of the 9/11 attackers came from Saudi Arabia.
- While President Biden is awake, alert, and working hard nationally and internationally at the White House, Trump is falling asleep on the first day of his criminal trial in New York.
- President Biden’s staff is comprised of serious, experienced, and expert people, while Trump plans to have people on his staff who are just inexperienced and unqualified sycophants who have pledged loyalty to him (not to the Constitution).
Not only would Trump have mishandled these events and have had no help from any international partners since he has dismissed working cooperatively with other countries, but the other 2024 presidential candidates, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein are wholly unqualified and inexperienced to handle any international crisis. None of them have any idea what is required to be president of the United States. All four of them would be a disaster as president.
The only option for November 5, 2024, is to vote for Biden-Harris and to vote blue all up and down the ballot.
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