BEAU'S DEATH, WHICH WAS NOT RELATED TO HIS MILITARY SERVICE, HAS GUIDED BIDEN'S PRESIDENCY

Biden ripped for bringing up his late son Beau in defending Afghanistan pullout

By isabellakhademhosseini

 

Txas News Today

September 5, 2021

 

 

                                         Biden and son Beau

 

President Joe Biden should stop invoking his late son Beau Biden as a way of deflecting criticism of his handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush wrote.

‘Mr. Biden is not a Gold Star father and should stop playing one on TV,’ William McGurn wrote last week in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal.

McGurn wrote that Beau Biden was deployed to Iraq and worked as a military lawyer. Beau died of brain cancer that the president believes was caused by exposure to toxic chemicals at burn pits in Iraq.

Biden’s invoking of his late son to justify his decision to remove soldiers from Afghanistan was out of place because Beau Biden did not die in combat and was never deployed to the country, according to McGurn.

‘Meantime, the president refuses to acknowledge any hint of failure, much less his own culpability,’ McGurn wrote in the Journal.

‘He has variously denied making any mistakes, claimed he anticipated the entire mess, and wherever possible blamed Donald Trump.

‘He also dodges the hard question by constantly insisting the issue in contention is his decision to leave rather than the deadly hash he’s made of it.

‘And he bizarrely keeps invoking his son, the late Maj. Beau Biden, a Delaware Army National Guard lawyer who served honorably in Baghdad and whose early death from brain cancer was tragic but has nothing to do with Afghanistan, much less the 11 Marines, Navy corpsman and Army soldier killed in Thursday’s suicide bombing.

 

The US  military service members who were killed by the suicide bomber

 

McGurn’s criticism of Biden comes as The New York Times was blasted by Twitter users for a headline which read: ‘Biden, Still Grieving His Son, Finds That Not Everyone Wants to Hear About It.’

In response to the online backlash, the Times ended up changing the headline to: ‘In Invoking Beau, Biden Broaches a Loss That’s Guided His Presidency.’

During a period of less than two weeks, Biden invoked his late son Beau at least five times in public remarks about the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Last week, in Biden’s address to the nation after the last American GI left the Central Asian country, the president once again referenced his late son.

‘I don’t think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of this country who put that uniform on, willing to put their lives on the line in defense of our nation. Maybe it’s because my deceased son Beau served in Iraq for a full year.’  

‘Let me be clear. Leaving August 31 is not due to an arbitrary deadline. It was designed to save American lives,’ Biden said in his first public remarks since the final US soldier left Hamid Karzai International Airport on Monday night.