OPINION:
An estimated 200 men, women and children, including at least 20 Americans, are currently in the clutches of Hamas terrorists, and President Joe Biden says the United States is “working ‘round the clock” to free them. Whatever that means. Compare that to this: “On January 20, 1981, minutes after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as the 40th president of the United States, the 52 U.S. captives held at the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran, are released, ending the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis,” History wrote.
Biden emboldens terrorists. Terrorists feared Reagan. Any questions?
“Presidents who are towers of Jello do not make good leaders,” Craig Shirley, presidential historian and Reagan biographer, said in an email.
True that.
He went on: “The Iranian Hostage Crisis is instructive. I interviewed Bruce Langdon [ambassador to Iran] … He told me the Ayatollah did not respect [then-president Jimmy] Carter but was terrified of Reagan. The Iranians thought Reagan would send in the 82nd Airborne and that is why the hostages were released.”
That is why the hostages were released, as History recounted, just “minutes” after Reagan took over the White House reins.
So far, Biden has campaigned from his basement, stumbled around presidential podiums, bumbled over his White House addresses. He’s bungled the Afghanistan withdrawal, leaving friends, allies, Americans behind; giving millions of dollars of top-grade military equipment to Taliban members. He’s watched as Russia’s aggressed against Ukraine and responded by sending in millions upon millions upon millions of dollars to a country that just a little while back was considered tops in government corruption — but now is apparently worthy of unquestioned flows of U.S. dollars. He’s lied, he’s deceived, he’s been outed as lying and deceiving about his son, Hunter, and their oh-so-friendly ties with communist China.
He’s been a tower of Jello.
And now the Middle East is on fire.
Israel is fighting on two fronts: Hamas in Gaza and now, Hezbollah in the north — which is really to say, Israel is fighting Iran.
And America’s being drawn in to the war.
“US Navy intercepts missiles heading north from Yemen, ‘potentially’ toward Israel,” Fox News reported.
“US warship in Red Sea intercepts 3 missiles fired from Yemen, possibly at Israel,” The Times of Israel reported.
And meanwhile, the hostages — anxiously await? Are dead? Are about to be used to add to the $6 billion Biden’s already tipped Iran’s way for other U.S. hostages?
“If you want to prevent war,” said Rep. Dan Crenshaw, in a Friday Fox News segment, “you have to make it clear you’re willing to beat the crap out of your enemies if necessary.”
Reagan did that.
Biden has not.
And that is making the final months of the Biden administration one of the most dangerous times America and the world have faced in years.
Peace will not prevail until a new president — one made of sterner stuff than Jello — is in the White House.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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