You’ve long heard the phrase by the late, legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, “If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” I would add, will you even have the opportunity to try again or to correct the damage done?
A Micro-Level Misstep
On my last day following a long sojourn abroad, I met a wonderful woman from North Dallas, had dinner with her, and memorized her email address.
When I arrived home the next day, I emailed her to see if she had had a decent trip back. A couple of minutes later, my email returned to me as undeliverable. Realizing my mistake of failing to write down her email address or the spelling of her last name, over several weeks, I tried numerous alternative methods at length for finding that information, but with no success.
I had not handled it right and could not later correct the mistake. It’s hard even to imagine the frustration and problems for all of us, considering the never-ending missteps we watch daily from our president!
Macro Level Bungles
Biden and company have engaged in macro-level failures for nearly three years now. Their repeated failures to take early appropriate steps, domestically and internationally, have severe ramifications for the nation and the world.
In chain-like fashion, their ineptness has spun out of control and led to one unpalatable situation after another. Then they spend untold labor hours and multi-billions of dollars, not to mention American lives, seeking to correct what they could not get right in the first place.
The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan caused the loss of American lives and $85 billion dollars worth of military equipment to the Taliban. This ‘gift’ is ultimately finding its way to our enemies throughout the region and, arguably, globally. It also has signaled to the rest of the world, particularly Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, as well as to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad, that American military effectiveness is questionable.
As a result of not adequately planning the withdrawal from Afghanistan, as President Trump had already outlined, the Biden Administration has been scrambling ever since. Following our Afghanistan withdrawal, Russia's invasion of Ukraine under a false pretext, and the resulting billions we have spent propping up Ukraine are major unfortunate results.
Middle East Madness
Another result of our ineptness is the spate of attacks, now several dozen, on U.S. Armed Forces throughout the Middle East following the barbaric Hamas attack on Israel.
China's forays into the Middle East and its support of Iran further imperil Israel and, by extension, the U.S. In considering the Biden Administration, China is emboldened. They are in partnership with Russia ostensibly for one reason: to hasten our declining power. They have ramped up spying on us via “weather balloons,” university “research centers,” exchange “students,” industrial spying, and, of late, the influx of more than 17,000 Chinese nationals at our southern border – all single men of military age.
Because the Biden Administration intentionally has not secured the southern border, it has subjected American citizens to crime, fentanyl addiction, and massive numbers of deaths, as well as bursting federal, state, and municipal budgets in the attempt to house, feed, and safeguard swarming numbers of illegal immigrants.
Biden’s porous border policies have invited terrorists, weakened any notion of U.S. homeland security, heightened child trafficking, accelerated drug cartel activity, and aided gang-related connections throughout our county.
Poorly Planning, Design, Execution and Follow-up
Across the board, in examining the policies and programs of the Biden Administration and how poorly they’ve been designed and initiated, it is apparent that everything they do today represents one attempted, hopeless ‘correction’ after another.
These attempted corrections are long drawn out, invariably with no end in sight. Whether on the world stage or domestically, each boondoggle after another leads to protracted, expensive, questionable attempts to resolve what didn't need to occur in the first place.
It is not an exaggeration: the entire Biden Administration is the picture of futility and incompetence, mixed with corruption and persecution of its political opponents. This is no way to run a country or show the world how an effective representative republic operates. It is no way to deter our enemies from taking bold steps. There is no way to guide us safely into the future. Indeed, the entire world is now less safe.