So Biden does a little Q&A session at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. During the unfiltered, unscripted, “off the cuff” answers, where Biden is almost sure to commit a gaffe, he did not disappoint. He stated that Turkey had assisted the terrorists by allowing foreign fighters to enter Syria via their country. He continued:
“…the biggest problem is our allies” in responding to the civil war in Syria.
“The Turks…the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. What were they doing? They were so determined to take down Assad and essentially they have a proxy Sunni-Shia war.”
“What did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who fight against Assad—except the people who were being supplied were al Nusra and al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.”
It seems anytime those controlling Joe let him have any slack on the leash he nips the neighborhood kids and then the administration has to walk back his remarks. This time, though, those who were “insulted” demanded that he do it himself. And he has. He threw himself onto his own sword saying he never meant to imply this, or he was taken out of context for that.
Last week, Biden “misquoted” the number of people killed in an American storm—by over 160,000 people. One hundred and sixty one people were killed, not the 161,000 he clearly stated and did not retract.
Two things at the heart of this blog. One, Joe is just one fired bullet, one heart attack, one well-equipped and well-armed fence jumper from being the President of these United States. Let that sink in real deep when people you know continue screaming for the impeachment of B. Hussein. Whatever ole’ Barry does, he has to be better than his number two.
Two: Just exactly what did he say at Cambridge that was wrong? The Turks freely admitted that foreign fighters may have entered Syria via their country. But if so, they did so as tourists—they did not come in and leave with their arms (weapons—I’m sure the Turks did not cut off their appendages). As if these fighters needed the weapons they came into Turkey with to fight against the flavor of the month. There are weapons at the local bazaar right next to falafels and legs of lamb. And the smorgasbord of little Arab countries DID arm anyone who would point a gun at Assad and his army. I mean, the Americans were not leading so these little oil kings did whatever they could to continue making petro-dollars.
The problem with Biden is that he spoke the unvarnished truth. And in world politics you can’t do that. The enemy of my enemy is my friend over there. We know it. They know it. We know they know it. They know we know it. Everybody knows. But we never speak of it in public. If you do, I won’t do what you want. I’ll make threats and pull out of whatever coalition you are trying to build. They only villains in this world are the Americans. We’ve allowed this world perception for so long nothing else can even be whispered, let alone admitted freely in public.
You’d think after Joe’s forty-one years (yes, 41 YEARS) in politics, he’d know that. Guess not.