President Biden and others in Washington may be content allowing Afghanistan to devolve into its pre-9/11 state, but the American people should know the consequences.
Despite residual resistance, it’s now widely accepted to refer to the competition between the US and China by its rightful name: the second Cold War.
In 2019, Iranian agents lured Ruhollah Zam, a dissident journalist living under asylum in France, to Iraq, where they abducted him. The operatives then brought Zam to Iran, where the regime executed him last December for inspiring anti-government protests.
Saying that Israel is only vaccinating Jews or denying Palestinians any vaccines amounts to a modern version of this ancient hatred. The point is to perpetuate a lie which portrays Israel as the ultimate evil
The Trump and Biden administrations seem to agree on at least one thing: China is committing genocide against the Uyghurs. Last month, on President Donald Trump’s last full day in office, the State Department declared as much.
President Joe Biden has been in office more than a month, and he still hasn’t called the prime minister of Israel, one of America’s closest allies. This delay would seem less like a snub if Biden hadn’t already called so many of America’s other allies — and touted those calls publicly.
The US needs to stop trying to appease both sides and instead focus on deterring China and reassuring Taiwan. This requires America flexing its military muscles and using hard power more overtly to assist the Taiwanese and show the CCP that, without question, invading Taiwan is unacceptable.
Years from now, if Iran has nuclear weapons, historians will wonder with bewilderment how we didn’t see it coming — and, more importantly, why we didn’t act to stop it.
If you really want to unify the country, do something about K-12 education. Fight the efforts to impose divisive, anti-American curricula on America’s youth. Education should focus on teaching raw knowledge and developing critical thinking, not imposing a hostile ideology.
Joe Biden seems poised to follow his former boss’s footsteps, ignore that historic progress toward Arab-Israeli peace and just focus on the narrower Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We know where that path leads: failure — and no peace.
