Often, arrogance isn’t a quality an individual should want etched into their character profile. Yet, it all depends on the circumstances. Mark Cuban is a billionaire who oozes arrogance, though you could argue that’s for television being a host on “Shark Tank.” Donald Trump is a billionaire and the former president of the United States. The point is, these guys can embody arrogance, whether right or wrong. They’ve done this, won this, or built things. Joe Biden hasn’t done anything, and the latest New York Times piece about the Israel situation shows a president attempting the ski jump without skis.
Even academic snobs might be insufferable in conversation, but I can understand the aura if they’ve been published and often accumulated accolades, like the Nobel Prize. It might be unseemly, but I get it. Other people might as well. What isn’t accepted is when someone thinks they’re the most intelligent person in the room when a) everyone knows they’re not, and b) they have zero records of accomplishment.
That latter part bothers Biden, who got busted for lying about his academic achievements during his 1988 presidential run. Politically, he continues to lie about being arrested during the Civil Rights movement. Because when you tear down everything, he’s a man who’s been in Washington for more than four decades and has done nothing. Biden is the worst type of politician DC can produce: the man with decades of so-called experience who comes to the wrong decision on every issue.
On the Israel front, that’s been a disastrous merging of events. No one supposedly questions Biden’s foreign policy bona fides despite this man being proven wrong on every major policy venture for the past four decades. Like his former boss, Barack Obama, who thought giving speeches could change the mood, Biden thought he could influence the Israelis from behind the scenes, especially regarding the Rafah operation.
And, like Obama, it ended in disaster. Both men were weak. Both allowed Russia to invade Ukraine on their watch. Both men drew red lines in the Middle East that were walked all over because our enemies (and allies) knew they wouldn’t do anything.
Syria launched chemical weapons against its own under Obama. Biden warned Iran not to launch an attack on Israel, but it did anyway, along with reports that this presidency knew it would happen but advised Tehran that it should be within certain limits. He also opposed the Rafah operation, and his warnings have gone unheeded by Jerusalem.
Biden has done something: he halted arms shipments to the Jewish state. He confirmed it on the campaign trail because that’s the intent. He wants to appease the anti-Israel, antisemitic, and pro-Hamas nutjobs that form a sizeable portion of the Democratic Party base, at least the part that counts if he wants to win Michigan—a state the president needs to win if he has a shot at clinching 270 in the Electoral College.
Biden’s arrogance here has been astounding, wherein he thought he could influence the Israelis on how they should fight their war against Hamas. And then, when no one listens to him, he cuts off military aid to our only democratic ally in the Middle East to better political conditions at home. Mr. Biden, Muslim voters in Michigan are furious at you, but it’s independent voters who hate your guts, and that’s the bloc you should focus on but won’t because you’ve always been a fourth-tier politician.
The office is only as good as the man behind it. Voters are seeing that now. Our prestige has been degraded since we have chaos engulfing this administration. To add to Biden’s campaign of hurling the Jewish state under the bus, he’s offered intelligence to the Israelis to conduct a more targeted war in Rafah, including locations of Hamas hideouts. First, I’m sure Shin Bet and Mossad have this information. Second, we’re withholding arms and intelligence from a key ally because Mr. I Forgot When My Son Died can’t get his way with Prime Minister Netanyahu.
It’s unfathomable.
It is almost as puzzling as Biden dispatching CIA Director William Burns to Cairo to hash out a ceasefire agreement to end the war, yet Burns never told the Israelis about this deal. It got blown up when Hamas announced it, much to the shock of the Netanyahu government, who rejected the agreement because the demands were fantasyland. Biden thought he could pull a fast one and failed. He’s failed at every significant juncture of his presidency because he never was meant to lead the free world.
The sad part is that he probably thinks he’s one of the elites to hold the office. He’s not. I don’t know if that’s dementia talking, but Biden is in the William Pierce-William Henry Harrison League of Presidents. It’s outright awful.