Biden’s weakness abroad: A crisis of credibility

This article originally appeared in Washington Times on April 17, 2024

“Don’t,” President Biden said when asked for his message to the Iranians contemplating an attack upon Israel, so of course the Iranians did. The value of the word and command of the president of the United States showed itself in full as Iranian drones and missiles rained down on Israel by the hundreds. That value is now zero.

Why would it be anything else? As the Biden administration continues into what is hopefully, for the sake of world peace, its final year, the deterrence and credibility of the United States are at lows unmet since the fall of Saigon nearly half a century ago. (That is, we should note, less time than Mr. Biden has been a public figure.) The Biden regime, having hollowed out the American military and American deterrence — through incompetence, ideological fixations, inconstant policy, and chronic underinvestment in the armed forces — has left the United States nearly without credible hard power...

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