Biden’s UN-Presidential Swan Song
His last address to the United Nations featured a couple of big lies that shouldn’t go unchallenged.
Joe Biden was the president again yesterday, at least for a little while. In the role he has largely abandoned since his scripted exit from the presidential race in July, he delivered remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. It was typical Biden fare, but a couple of things stood out for their brazen revisionism.
First was his historical rewrite of the withdrawal from Afghanistan:
When I came to office as president, Afghanistan had replaced Vietnam as America’s longest war. I was determined to end it, and I did. It was a hard decision but the right decision.
Four American presidents had faced that decision, but I was determined not to leave it to the fifth. It was a decision accompanied by tragedy. Thirteen brave Americans lost their lives along with hundreds of Afghans in a suicide bomb. I think those lost lives — I think of them every day.
I think of all the 2,461 U.S. military deaths over a long 20 years of that war. 20,744 American servicemen wounded in action. I think of their service, their sacrifice, and their heroism.
That was the beginning of a long section dedicated to rehearsing the unrest around the world even as he insisted “I have hope” because “there is a wa— a way forward.”
The 13 Americans he supposedly thinks about every day are dead because of him. It’s fine if he thinks of them now, but he couldn’t stop looking at his watch during the receiving ceremony for their bodies. He’s also responsible for the deaths of 10 innocent Afghans in an ill-advised retaliatory strike, as well as the hundreds of American citizens left behind in his hasty retreat.
The bigger picture is worse. As Mark Alexander routinely restates, “The slaughter of thousands of men, women, and children in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Israel is the direct result of the Biden/Harris regime’s lethal foreign policy ineptitude.”
In other words, the chaos around the world is, in many ways, a direct result of the disgraceful and disastrous surrender in Afghanistan pushed by Biden and the “last person in the room” with him, Kamala Harris. He practically invited Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. He failed to confront Iranian desires for hegemony in the Middle East, which led to the slaughter of innocent Israelis. In fact, he stood in the way of our ally when retaliation was necessary.
The whole time, an increasingly bold and belligerent China has been taking notes.
Second was Biden’s empty boast about defending democracy at home and around the world.
This summer, I faced a decision whether to seek a second term as president. It was a difficult decision. Being president has been the honor of my life. There is so much more I want to get done. But as much as I love the job, I love my country more. I decided, after 50 years of public service, it’s time for a new generation of leadership to take my nation forward.
My fellow leaders, let us never forget, some things are more important than staying in power. It’s your people that matter the most.
Never forget, we are here to serve the people, not the other way around.
Biden decided in the spring of 2023 to “finish the job” and run for a second term. He did so despite manifest evidence of his cognitive decline that was plain even before the 2020 election.
The only reason he “faced a decision” this summer is because his catastrophic debate performance in June meant his vice president, administration officials, and Leftmedia Praetorian Guard could no longer pretend he was fit to run again.
He didn’t “face a decision,” either. It was made for him by Democrats behind the scenes like Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. He didn’t gracefully bow out of the race out of some high-minded concern for the people or the good of the country. He was the subject of a coup as his wheelchair was pushed out of the race by power-hungry Democrats who knew he couldn’t win.
That they now hail him as some sort of humble and patriotic George Washington-esque figure is insulting.
After more than 50 years of “public service,” Biden leaves the nation and the world a worse place. It is somehow fitting that one of his revisionist and deceitful farewell speeches was given to the contemptible body known as the UN.
