DAVID MARCUS: Three Americans dead - but Biden has almost nothing to say… and draws Bugs Bunny cartoon lines in the Iranian sand instead. He truly is a caricature of courage
By David Marcus
Daily Mail
Jan 30, 2024
Under the roaring blades of Marine One, President Biden finally faced reporters more than 48 hours after three American soldiers were killed and dozens more injured in an Iranian-backed drone attack.
Under the roaring blades of Marine One, President Biden finally faced reporters more than 48 hours after three American soldiers were killed and dozens more injured in an Iranian-backed drone attack.
Busy Candidate Joe was on his way to donor events in Palm Beach, Florida, after being out of sight all of Monday.
And today, President Joe didn't have much to say for himself.
Asked if he's decided how the United States of America will respond to the murder of its own, the President said, 'Yes.'
His words were barely audible over the drone of the engines.
Asked whether America's response will deter future Iranian proxy attacks on U.S. soldiers Joe answered, 'We'll see.'
Then he toddled off to his aircraft.
Perhaps, it was all by design. The White House doesn't put the President next to a noisy helicopter when they want him to take questions.
Nonetheless, this is the degree of seriousness that we've come to expect from an administration that loses track of its Secretary of Defense.
'I don't think we need a wider war in the Middle East. That's not what I'm looking for,' the President squeaked.
Unfortunately, it appears that war is widening whether Biden wishes it or not.
After the October 7th terror attacks in Israel, the President and his national defense team repeated an apparent warning to the mullahs of Iran, like B-movie action heroes.
If the rogue regime was considering capitalizing on the chaos of the Israel-Gaza war to advance its regional domination, Biden had one word for them: 'Don't.'
Well, Mr. President – they did.
Again and again.
Since mid-October, Iranian trained and financed militias have attacked American assets in the region at least 160 times across multiple countries.
The White House has done little in response – making the President look like Bugs Bunny drawing lines in the sand for Yosemite Sam.
Shades of Obama?
'We have been very clear to the Assad regime,' President Obama warned in August 2012, as Syria's dictator Assad massacred his people, who had risen to oppose him, 'that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus.'
Then, a year later, when horrific videos emerged showing Syrian civilians foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath and writhing on hospital room floors – the telltale signs of sarin gas poisoning – President Obama did nothing.
Of course, America does not want war in the Middle East. But neither did the U.S. nor Europe want war with Germany more than eight decades ago. How often does this lesson need to be learned and forgotten?
The best Biden can muster is 'we'll see?' Is this deterrence? Or deference?
His cabinet and staff has employed the same bloodless rhetoric.
Sergeant William Rivers (center), Specialist Breona Moffett (right) and Specialist Kennedy Sanders (left) were indeed sacrificed to a naive fantasy in which Iran wants peace and the United States and Israel are the real aggressors.
The U.S. 'response could be multi-leveled, come in stages and be sustained over time,' muttered U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
'We are not seeking a conflict with the regime in the military way,' said White House national security spokesman John Kirby.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who returned to work from extended sick leave just in time for a photo opportunity in the White House, had pathetically little to add.
Biden and the Democrats always hold themselves up as enlightened problem solvers. If only they are given power, they tell us, they'll solve the world's most intractable conflicts through dialogue, negotiation, and humility.
Somehow that strategy always ends in hundreds of millions of dollars in hard cash payments, sanctions relief, or some other type of wealth transfer.
The checks always cash. But the genius plan never works.
Not once.
When President Donald Trump took out Iranian terrorist general Qasem Soleimani, we were told our president was a madman hellbent on World War III. That didn't happen.
But on peacenik Joe Biden's watch, war appears on every horizon.
This is the same administration whose National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, said a week before Hamas' butchery on 10/7 that 'the Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.'
More delusional wish-casting.
It's only going to get worse as America barrels headlong into a presidential campaign.
Self-described 'very historic person', White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre went on national television to claim our three fallen American soldiers died serving the Biden administration.
Not the flag or the nation.
Serving Joe Biden.
The saddest part is that – that's true.
Sergeant William Rivers, Specialist Breona Moffett and Specialist Kennedy Sanders were indeed sacrificed to a naive fantasy in which Iran wants peace and the United States and Israel are the real aggressors.
Self-described 'very historic person', White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre went on national television to claim our three fallen American soldiers died serving the Biden administration.
The wages of Joe Biden's spineless appeasement are now being paid in American blood.
Nothing will change the minds of Iran's fundamentalist dictators. They will always want Americans dead.
So, we now have a staggering foreign policy crisis, and the president looks more like a candidate on the campaign trail than a commander in the Situation room.
Maybe he'll tell his wealthy campaign supporters how the nation will respond to being attacked. For everyone else – including those watching from their lavish apartments in Tehran and Qatar – the message is clear: Joe wants to wish this all away.
He is careful not to upset the pro-Hamas campus radicals and street protestors with belligerent talk of retaliation, national defense, or pride. The socialists, the anti-capitalists, the anti-imperialists don't like that talk.
But the rest of us demand justice. We demand a president with courage.
Instead, we have a decrepit grasping old cynic who does little more than glad-hand donors and avoid reporters.
Joe Biden's feebleness has been a punchline throughout his presidency.
Now, it is deadly serious.
Now, it is getting Americans killed.
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