After nearly four years in the White House, President Joe Biden’s foreign policy doctrine is clear, and Americans have seen enough horror to draw some basic conclusions.
In February 2021, the Biden State Department delisted the Iranian-backed Houthis from the designated terrorist organization list. At the same time, it demanded Saudi Arabia, whose government had been fighting the group so the U.S. didn’t have to, lay down its arms.
“Effective February 16, I am revoking the designations of Ansarallah, sometimes referred to as the Houthis, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT),” Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced.
This predictably emboldened the group and gave Iran its first concrete example of how the Biden administration would handle its proxy wars in the region and elsewhere.
It’s now May 2024, and the Houthis have been re-listed as a terrorist organization. They’ve shut down commercial shipping in the Red Sea after launching hundreds of missile attacks and have recently expanded their reach to ships in the Indian Ocean. A dangerous and expensive embarrassment.
But back to Biden’s first year.
In August 2021, just seven months after Biden took office, the Taliban marched into Kabul and took back the capital city — chasing out the United States as Afghan allies were abandoned and U.S. troops were blown up at Abbey Gate. After U.S. troops went into Afghanistan in 2001 to avenge 9/11 and hunt down Osama bin Laden, 20 years of blood and sacrifice were seemingly tossed away as the terrorist group regained full control of the country.
In an effort to turn the catastrophe into a win for Biden, a ludicrous task, officials touted the withdrawal from Afghanistan as “the most successful airlift in history.”
Now, the country is once again a safe haven for Al Qaeda, whose terrorists vow to plan and launch new attacks on the West.
“Al Qaeda is back to its old tricks in Afghanistan. Much as it did before masterminding the 9/11 attacks, the terrorist group is running militant training camps; sharing the profits of the Taliban’s illicit drug, mining, and smuggling enterprises; and funneling the proceeds to affiliated jihadi groups worldwide,” Foreign Policy reports.
On April 12, 2024, just 24 hours before Iran launched the largest ballistic missile and drone attack Israel has ever seen, Biden said “don’t” from Washington. The Iranian regime ignored him and proceeded to violate the airspace of surrounding countries in an effort to murder as many Israelis as possible. The attack came six months after the regime, through its proxy group Hamas, successfully carried out the worst terrorist attack in Israeli history — murdering, raping and maiming thousands of civilians on October 7, 2023. They are still holding hundreds of hostages, including five Americans.
As Hamas continues to launch rocket attacks on Israeli homes, kindergartens, hospitals and more, President Biden has declared he will cut off weapons to the Israeli Defense Forces if they finish off Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah — the last stronghold where at least 4,000 terrorists still exist. Biden claims the morally depraved move is to protect civilians in the city, ignoring the thousands of Gaza “civilians” who lined the streets and cheered as Hamas paraded the hostages they stole from their homes and a music festival — dead and alive.
“Almost three in four Palestinians believe the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was correct, and the ensuing Gaza war has lifted support for the Islamist group both there and in the West Bank, a survey from a respected Palestinian polling institute found,” Reuters reports. “Seventy-two percent of respondents said they believed the Hamas decision to launch the cross-border rampage in southern Israel was "correct" given its outcome so far, while 22% said it was "incorrect". The remainder were undecided or gave no answer.”
These are the same “civilians” who cheered the fall of the Twin Towers in New York, the attack on the Pentagon and the United Flight 93 crash in Pennsylvania.
In January, when an Iranian drone took the lives of three U.S. soldiers and severely injured dozens more after infiltrating their base in Jordan, the consequences were few and limited.
It didn’t have to be this way, but Biden’s official policy of bolstering and funding Iran is having predictable results.
“About two months ago, President Biden agreed to hand over $6 BILLION as a part of a hostage deal with Tehran. Shortly after, Hamas, which receives hundreds of millions of dollars from Iran annually, launched an unprecedented and horrific attack on Israel on October 7th,” Republican Congressman Brian Mast said in a November floor speech. “The lesson here should’ve been that handing over billions of dollars to our enemy will only strengthen them and put our allies in harm's way. But President Biden, instead, allowed Iran to access an additional $10 billion. That is a total of $16 billion Iran can access.”
Whether it’s the Houthis in Yemen, Hamas in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, Hezbollah in Lebanon or proxy groups in Iraq, Biden has emboldened them all. Further, with Biden’s failed policy in Niger, Islamic terror is on the march in Africa.
Jihad Joe has made his immoral position clear by enabling Iran and bolstering Islamic terrorism. He’s given them aid, comfort and betrayed a crucial ally to appease jihadists here at home. In particular, Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who believes “rape is resistance.”
The question now is, how much worse will it get?