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When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war.
So quiet was the inheritance from the prior Trump administration that nearly three years later, on September 29, 2023—and just eight days before the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis—Biden’s national security advisor Jake Sullivan could still brag that “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”
So, what exactly happened to the inherited calm that led to the current nonstop chaos of the present?
In a word, theocratic Iran—the nexus of almost all current Middle East terrorism and conflict—was unleashed by Team Biden after having been neutered by the Trump administration.
The Biden-Harris administration adopted a 5-step revisionist protocol that appeased and encouraged Iran and its terrorist surrogates Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
The result was a near guarantee that something akin to the October 7 massacres would inevitably follow—along with a subsequent year of violence that has now engulfed the Middle East.
First, on the 2020 campaign trail, Biden damned long-time American ally Saudi Arabia as a “pariah.”
He overturned the policies of both the previous Obama and Trump administrations by siding with the Iranian-supplied terrorist Houthis in their war on Saudi Arabia.
Biden accused the kingdom of war crimes, warning it would “be held accountable” for its actions in Yemen. Biden-Harris took the murderous Houthis off the U.S. terrorist list.
Almost immediately followed continuous Houthi attacks on international shipping, Israel, and U.S. warships—rendering the Red Sea, the entryway to the Suez Canal, de facto closed to international maritime transit.
Worse still, by the time of the 2022 midterms, when spiraling gas prices threatened Democratic congressional majorities, Biden opportunistically flipped and implored Saudi Arabia to pump more oil to lower world prices before the November election. Appearing obnoxious and then obsequious to an old Middle East ally is a prescription for regional chaos.
Second, Biden-Harris nihilistically killed off the Trump administration’s “Abraham Accords.” That diplomatic breakthrough had proven a successful blueprint for moderate Arab nations to seek détente with Israel, ending decades of hostilities to unite against the common Middle East threat of Iran.
Third, Biden begged Iran to reenter the appeasing, so-called Iran Deal that virtually had ensured that Iran would eventually get the bomb.
Worse yet, it dropped oil sanctions against the theocracy, allowing a near-destitute Iran to recoup $100 billion in profits. And it greenlighted $6 billion in hostage ransoms to Tehran.
An enriched Tehran immediately sent billions of dollars in support and weapons to the anti-Western terrorists of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis to attack Israel, Americans, and international shipping. Iran soon began partnering with China and Russia to form a new anti-American axis.
Biden-Harris also fled abruptly from Afghanistan, abandoning billions in weapons and American contractors. The humiliation thus virtually destroyed American deterrence in the Middle East, inciting enemies and endangering friends.
Fourth, Biden-Harris restored hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the West Bank and Gaza, but without any guarantees that the Palestinian Authority and Hamas would desist from their past serial terrorist acts.
In the case of Hamas, U.S. and Western “humanitarian aid” simply freed up more fungible dollars in Gaza to arm Hamas and to expand its subterranean tunnel complex essential to its October 7 massacres and hostage-taking.
Fifth, from the outset of the ensuing increased tensions, Biden-Harris began pressuring the Israelis to act “proportionally” in responding to the massacre of some 1,200 Israelis and nearly 20,000 missiles, rockets, and drones launched at their homeland from Iran, the Houthis, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
Such straitjacketing of our closest Middle East friend further signaled the Iranian-backed terrorists that there was now “daylight” between the U.S. and its closest regional ally. That opportunity provided still further incentives for Iran to test just how far it could safely go in attacking Israel.
But why did Biden-Harris so foolishly ignite the Middle East?
In part, the administration naively tried to resurrect the old, discredited Obama administration notion of ‘creative tension’—of empowering a rogue Iran and its terrorists to play off Israel and the moderate Arab regimes, as a new sort of balance of power in the region.
In part, Biden-Harris was caving to increased anti-Semitism at home and the rise of powerful, pro-Palestinian groups on U.S. campuses and in critical swing Electoral College states.
In part, Biden-Harris was naïve and gullible. The two bought into the anti-Americanism and anti-Israel boilerplate of our enemies. So, they thought to make amends by seeing Iran and its terrorists as the moral equivalent of democratic, pro-American Israel.
Their malignant legacy is the current Middle East disaster.
Bidens Terrible and Harris would be worse
The Biden family cabal of idiots swerved Forrest Gumpesque into getting rich. All the fools had to do is sell out America’s interests.
It’s amazing how incompetence gets so richly rewarded in Democrat party circles.
At least Forrest Gump character wasn’t a puppet.
“…. there was now “daylight” between the U.S. and its closest regional ally”.
Creating that growing chasm of daylight has long been understood by the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran as the only way to eventually defeat Israel. But it is not just between the US and Israel it is between the West and Israel. Once Western political support for Israel has been fully undermined and leads to withdrawal of military aid, in its various forms, then Israel, and the Jews, can be wiped off the map.
“But why did Biden-Harris so foolishly ignite the Middle East?”
He didn’t. He just obeyed Hussein O’s dicta. Remember Hussein/Biden junta is the third term of Obama.. He wanted Joe to finish what he started, the elimination of Israel. Is that simple. Sadly no one in America wants to admit the truth even VDH
At times, it is as if the Obama-Biden people are following the old Marxist dictum about how “everything that exists needs to be destroyed.” Then, one is supposed to believe, it can all be re-built to perfection.
Caseg – Agreed. This article is striking me so wrong. Obama is a
full-blown Marxist who salivates at the Globalist Communist
takedown of America. He is also a Muslim wannabe who has
relentlessly supported the advancement of Islam. One only has
to review the debacle in Benghazi and Obama’s subsequent
accolades for ‘the Prophet’ at the UN for testament to that – among
countless other examples during his tenure.
Big Guy corruptocrat Biden is Obama’s puppet and Kamala is his
ass kisser. She can be snarky and strut in confidence at a Presidential
debate due to full backing of the media and moderators but she is a
true bubble brain and plant.
Mr. Hanson states: “Biden-Harris was naive and gullible. The two
bought into the anti-Americanism and anti-Israel boiler plate of our
enemies”. Those two didn’t buy into anything. The fiends know
exactly what they’re doing to harm Israel and America. “So, they
thought to make amends by seeing Iran……and its terrorists……as the
moral equivalent of democratic, pro-American Israel”. And then
what? They all lived happily ever after?
27 days to go until we know whether we will be free or enslaved.
The Kinyun is precisely the reason our wise and astute Founders placed the requirement in Article Two that the President MUST be a “Natural BornCiizen”. They had seen such treachery during the war and the run-up to it. The definition of that term has been rather “handily” changed since then: the original definition of “natural born citizen” was that the candidate must be the child of TWO parents who are US Citizens at the time of the birth. The kinyun’s pappy was a British Subject when his son was born. Kenya was a British Colony or Protectorate at that time, only later becoming a fully independent nation.
Amusing we have the same breach of hard protocol with the current seeker of the Presidency. This creature has TWO parents who were NOT US Citizens at the time of her birth. I find it further amusing that this pair are SO similar in S many ways…….. ya’d think SHE was HIS offspring.
Bareback Hasbeen Obama likes to think he controls the Alzheimer Joe administration but he doesn’t. He’s always been self deluded about his ability because he’s surrounded by “yes men and women” The yes men are more like women than the mostly butch women, like Susan Rice, if you ask me. They’re all sycophants just like when he was Caliph, only the brain diseased sycophants who comprised his cadre of viziers were the real policy makers during his reign. He may sometimes call his former viziers/apparatchiks who are now members of this ersatz administration when he gets out of bed at ten or eleven but he doesn’t direct them because there’s NOTHING he wants that they don’t do already, and then some. And by “then some,” I mean they’re THOUSANDS of times worse extremists than he ever has been or ever will be. What does he supposedly tell them that’s more specific than” F America and whitey over” and “give jihadi terrorists as much money as you can steal.” Lying, stealing and sabotage aren’t exactly “instructions” those anti-American traitors need. They’re much better at it than he ever could be and they don’t hold back out of cowardice like he did when he was President, because they’ll just blame it all on Alzheimer Joe if they’re ever called out for their countless crimes. All Bareback had as Caliph was a pen and a phone, and those aren’t able to plot policy schemes.
He’s left pandering to young black racists to vote for a PHONY black woman, Khlamydia Devi Harris, because she’s supposedly black and she’s a woman. Good luck getting black guys to vote for a ho just because she’s a woman, Bareback. That ain’t gonna happen, you fantasist moron. The overwhelming of black guys dislike her at best, and hate her at worst. They’re like the rest of American guys that way.
Well Biden presidency shows just howow the USA has fallen, Harris would be the decline virtually unreturnable from.. At this moment although not a great fan of Trump and Americans, Trump will infact bring back America’s character, the world would be a much safer place had he received a second term. l for one can not understand how
Biden won The UK for 30yrs has suffered poor government and leadership, better out of EU which is also lacking leadership. The so called Western world including Australia needs to get back to its morals and ideals of 60 or 70 years ago
“l for one can not understand how
Biden won. It’s called election rigging, fraud and mass cheating, friend. And you’d probably like Trump and MAGA supporters if you spent some time with them. By all accounts from non-Dirtbagocrat scum who’ve met him, (the normal majority,) He’s a very gracious man, and you’ll notice MAGA supporters are always happy and enthusiastic. Contrast that to Dirtbagocrat crowds, which are usually mobs or obnoxious protesters, even when they’re at scheduled D-Bag events instead of rioting in the streets. They’re always enraged, unhappy and practically foaming at the mouth.
You sure are right about the cost to be paid for incompetent governance, particularly when sedition is involved as in the current presidential administration, which is even more traitorous than Bareback Hasbeen Obama’s was. The West has a huge influence on the rest of the world and if that influence is bad, as it is now, the whole world gets worse, although some countries, such as Indonesia are improving as we decline.
make it simple and clear. biden is not stupid, is corrupt and his “ideas” are not his
kamala has a pea size brain.
“their ” realizations are random or with bad intentions. under their stupid presidency, they initiated wars on regional scale without a geopolitical view, the main event: islam, jihad, are conquering the ex-Illuminati: usa, france, germany, england, begium, holland, sweden….. all under their eyes and their mentor, hussein.
this is the tragedy of our time . and it comes with the irreversibility,
what about our next generations to whom we leave this shit?
Would that the so-called mainstream media electronic and print media were willing to help more Americans grasp the profound difference between President Trump’s focus on nation-states as the foundation of world stability and the Soros-Obama-intelligence-military-State blob’s focus on globalism and tension among the world’s powers. Our psychopathic overlords have influence far greater than when President Eisenhower warned against the “military-industrial complex.” And most Americans are oblivious to the peril ahead.