President Biden's misfortune have turned into an ongoing disaster, which must be making sane Americans fearing a Trump comeback quaking in their boots.
I mean, he did the right thing in withdrawing from Afghanistan, and the United States is now at peace for the first time since before 9/11. Except that he didn't consult other members of NATO, the auspices under which we were in Afghanistan in the first place, before going ahead and ending the war. Even the Germans have complained that Trump consulted with them more than Biden did.
Biden is now pivoting toward eastern Asia to counter the growing threat from China, having signed a deal with the United Kingdom and Australia to sell nuclear submarines, marine craft exclusive only to the U.S. and the U.K., to the Australian navy, to increase security in the Pacific. Except that he forgot to inform France, which had a now-canceled deal to sell diesel-electric submarines to Australia and has overseas territories in the region (can you say "New Caledonia," boys and girls?), and now the French are livid over it. He has a lot of fence-mending to do when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly today.
Which doesn't give him any time right now to handle the sudden influx of Haitian migrants trying the enter the country from Mexico.
And as if that weren't bad enough, we now learn that a retaliatory strike responding to a terrorist attack in Afghanistan killed innocent civilians.
The poor guy can't get any relief from his allies in Congress as the Democrats attempt - I use that verb loosely - to pass a two-part infrastructure bill. There aren't enough votes in the Senate to pass a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill and progressives in the House vow to sink a bipartisan Senate infrastructure deal if the reconciliation package doesn't pass, as they are committed to settling for nothing instead of something when they can't have everything.
And COVID is still a thing, with the vaccine requirements already under threat from state lawsuits before the requirements are even written and with China, which invented COVID, unresponsive to proposed Sino-American efforts to lead the world out of the pandemic. Not to mention the lack of a Sino-American deal to lead the world against climate change.
Biden has the wind at his back. Unfortunately, it's his own.
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