Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
Then, there are the human rights backsliders that are U.S. partners and allies — Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia. How does Biden deal with the party’s progressives who demand he sanction such partner-nations — without risking the loss of these countries’ cooperation on our policy agenda?
Dismissing President Donald Trump’s claim that the 2020 election remains undecided, Joe Biden has begun to name his national security team.
Right now, it looks Democratic establishment all the way.
Antony Blinken, a longtime foreign policy aide, is Biden’s choice for secretary of state. Jake Sullivan, one of Hillary Clinton’s closest aides, is said to be his choice for national security adviser.
Biden’s urgency in naming his foreign policy team is understandable.
For if his election is confirmed by the Electoral College, then he will find himself on Jan. 20 with a lineup of foreign policy crises.
First is Afghanistan. While a Beltway battle has erupted over the wisdom of Trump’s decision to cut in half, to 2,500, the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by Jan. 15, no one denies the risk this entails for the besieged pro-American government in Kabul.
Ex-Ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan Ryan Crocker summed it up Friday before the House Armed Services Committee: “The worst thing we can do is what we are doing. … Basically telling the Taliban, ‘You win. We lose. Let’s dress this up as best we can.’”
America “is waving the white flag” of surrender, said Crocker.
Saturday, a barrage of rockets slammed into the Green Zone of Kabul where many embassies are located, killing eight and wounding two dozen. The Islamic State claimed responsibility.
As President Biden is not going to send fresh regiments of U.S. troops back to Afghanistan, he could, in his first year, face a collapse of the Kabul regime and a triumph of the Taliban, whom we expelled from power 19 years ago for hosting the al-Qaida terrorists who perpetrated 9/11.
Biden could, in his first days in office, preside over the first U.S. defeat in a major war since Vietnam.
A second situation confronting the new president is China. For the China of 2021 is not the China with which Barack Obama and Biden had to deal. The China of today revels in its Communist ideology.
It openly crushes democratic dissent in Hong Kong and defends “reeducation camps” for Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, uses air and naval forces and missile threats to assert and to defend its claims to the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, to Taiwan, and to the Senkaku Islands that Japan controls and claims.
U.S. planes and ships flying close to Chinese territorial claims are intercepted and treated as hostile.
This is not a China that is going to back down before American power. If the U.S. imposes sanctions on Beijing, then Beijing will reciprocate with sanctions on the U.S. And if the U.S. decides to use force, the U.S. should not be surprised if China reciprocates in kind.
President Biden, it is said, will find a way to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal from which Trump rudely exited.
And how will this sit with Israel?
Sunday, at a memorial service for Founding Father David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu sent a message, clearly for Biden: “We must stick to an uncompromising policy to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons. … There must be no return to the previous nuclear agreement.”
How will Biden deal with the now-regular Israeli attacks on Iran and Iranian-backed militias in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon? What would Biden do if Iran responded with attacks on Israel?
This is not an academic question. Sunday, the Israelis launched new attacks on Iranian-backed militia in Syria, and Trump has said that if an Iranian hand is found behind an attack that kills an American, then the U.S. will retaliate against Iran.
While his foreign policy advisers argued successfully against a Trump proposal for a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz, Israeli strikes on Iranian-backed militia in Syria could produce retaliation, and a sudden larger and wider war.
Worst-case scenario: Iran responds to an Israeli attack; Americans are killed; Trump retaliates; and Biden inherits a war with Iran he must fight or seek to end.
Then, there are the human rights backsliders that are U.S. partners and allies — Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia. How does Biden deal with the party’s progressives who demand he sanction such partner-nations — without risking the loss of these countries’ cooperation on our policy agenda?
And the question with regard to Afghanistan is also true of Syria and Iraq. How do we extract our military from these endless conflicts without losing any leverage we have, and with it losing our influence over the composition and character of the regime and its direction?
“America First” has an answer to these questions:
If there are no vital U.S. interests imperiled, keep U.S. troops out. And ashcan the utopian nonsense of trying to plant democracy in the sandy soil of a Middle East that has shown itself unreceptive to that particular crop.
The interventionalists got us into the sandbox. Let’s see if they can get us out.
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The troubles in the country will be much worse as the deplorables become the uncontrollables.
Sigh,it’s that time again for another of me PSA posts,seems antifi will while armed block roads on Sunday in the US if Trump does not concede the election:https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/pittsburg-area-antifa-leader-tweets-warning-trump-armedif-not-concede-sunday-noon-will-begin-block-roads-conservative-areas/ ,hmmmm…..,he seems nice!
So,would recommend to all traveling back home after spending time with family and friends know of car washes along your travel route,and for cripes sake,spend the extra couple of dollars for the undercarriage wash!I would say you get said vehicle into car wash while blood is still tacky should clean up with out a hitch,Happy Thanksgiving!
“know of car washes along your travel route”
Now thats funny… and yes the extra couple bucks for the undercarriage would be money well spent.
One problem Brian,now have that insidious/idiotic carwash song from the 70’s stuck in me head!A few Blue Moons tonite should clear it out just fine!
Its 2020… why wait, its tonite somewhere in the world.
I hope you didn’t mean this one!
Nope,was talking the soundtrack for movie by Rose Royce,always as a young kid enjoyed listening to Jim on am gold in parents various rides,a lot of Queen/Tull ect. heard am in those days.
Maybe it will snow and the plows will be out to assure the roads are cleared.
To make travel as safe as possible.
Clearly that Antifa fuck-stick doesn’t know that Monday is the traditional 1st day of deer season in PA. There will be more guns on the road than in many small nations.
Like the meme says, these are people willing to sit in a tree for hours for the chance to shoot a deer. Wouldn’t take much to also dig a hole at the cabin in the woods.
Get to know your Sheriff.
He is the one (along with his deputies) to NOT enforce these arbitrary and capricious mandates….
And if he doesn’t do that…get a new one.
I still haven’t doubted Trumps resolve on exposing the fraudulent election. It is fun to talk about a civilized transition of power in a civilized government thats in a civilized country. Its been a masterful illusion. Pat is just another swamp creature with everything to loose if the truth is exposed. I sense alot of uneasiness in the msm. Their lies have not yet become their truth and it shows.
Here’s what he should leave….along with the choice – Either 2&3 or 1
A NASCAR garage door pull? Wot?
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Keep on keepin’ it gay, anonymous Shitposter:
Trump will leave a fetid and festering toxic pile of poisonous, radioactive excrement for the Harris Administration that will be impossible to shovel, backhoe or bulldoze.
It shall be The Shit-Show of the ages, comrades.
You cannot lose wars that you were never set up to win. And honestly, short of killing every last inhabitant of an invaded land does anyone win aside from that? I predict Lap Dog, err Mad Dog, will have a place at Biden’s table if Biden is to be the selected one. The left thought Trump was a shit show for 4 years. Biden would dwarf whatever misguided reality they were in over Trump’s admin lol. Fucken talk time is over. It is time to sort this out the ancient way.
I always wondered if the Afghanistan exit strategy was to stay until there wasn’t anyone shot anymore? like forever.
Rummy and Darth Dove Hunter said the “war on terrorism” would last a generation. They
were not kidding. Can’t you hear the cash register ring for the special USA interests?
Rummy and Dick should be beaten with rubber hoses and have their fucken lips glued together. Those two fucken ding dongs were the fulcrum for the shit show of Iraq. They couldnt let that pesky little “no exit strategy” deter the profits.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/judge-blocks-certification-of-pennsylvania-election-results_3593327.html
Dream on.
What’s with the gay fixation issues? So are you trying to tell us you are gay? or its some hidden desire?
I really do not care if folks gay or not,not my business till they shove it down me throat or include children(that goes for gay/bi or straight).
Otherwise,none of me business,don’t make it mine.
I will say bi’s irritate me in that they can go to a party/concert/bar ect. and have twice the chances of hooking up with a date.
That said a bi would say(fair enuff) try being bi,so,will just remain mildly irritated!
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/25/crowd-gasps-laughs-as-pa-legislature-learns-of-ballot-upload-with-600000-votes-biden-and-3200-for-trump/
Hey, it could happen.
Shit son, you must desperately, REALLY want some man love…advertising does pay but you’d be better off on Grindr than shit posting here.
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If we had a press maybe some brave one would ask “If it’s not “America First” then what position should we be ranked, according to your reasoning?
I’m still hopeful Pres Trump will be re-elected. But in the event Biden prevails in his fraudulent election, I’d like to see Pres Trump pardon Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, and declassify the shit out of everything that SHOULDN’T be classified. JFK assassination, 9/11, Sandy Hook, all the shit Obama and his crew (including Biden) did…all of it should come out in one giant FLUSH!
Do you mean Biden’s inbox in prison?