OPINION:
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Four years of world peace drove Joe Biden insane.
When Democrats promised a “return to normalcy” during the 2020 campaign, they did not tell us it was another one of their crazy euphemisms — this one meaning a return to unending war and bloodshed around the world.
Of course, President Biden and Democrats in Washington would dispute this characterization because, after all, their jobs literally depend upon it. So they will lie. Heck, some of them might even believe their own lies.
But one argument Democrats don’t even try to make is that Mr. Biden’s two new wars — one in Ukraine and the other in Israel — are in some way the result of instability created by his immediate predecessor. That claim would be too big a lie — too unbelievably absurd — even for them.
Such a claim would only remind Americans that former President Donald Trump’s America First agenda — prosperity at home, power abroad — enabled Mr. Trump to remain the only president of the 21st century not to start a single war on his watch. The combination of American economic strength at home and clearly defined, self-interested power around the world kept our enemies at bay.
The day Mr. Biden took office, he began weakening America with his assault on American energy production. In addition to making you poorer, those same Biden policies enriched our enemies by driving up the price of oil.
Under Mr. Trump, Russia and Iran did not have a pot to spit in. As Mr. Biden’s policies drove up the price of oil, Russia and Iran became massively wealthy. And as if that were not destructive enough, Mr. Biden also waived sanctions against Russia and Iran, thereby turbocharging their oil economies.
In very real terms, Mr. Biden is responsible for funding the economic rise of these two malignant countries. He is personally responsible for funding the wars they have launched — one against Ukraine and now another against Israel.
Now comes Mr. Biden asking taxpayers to pony up $100 billion more to fund the fighting on behalf of our allies Ukraine and Israel.
As insane as it sounds, Mr. Biden is funding both sides of two new wars launched under his watch as a direct result of his policies. Truly, this is what passes as a “foreign policy expert” in Washington.
And as if that were not bad enough, Mr. Biden has also openly violated Supreme Court rulings to illegally force taxpayers to pay the student loans of pro-Hamas students demonstrating on behalf of terrorists at universities around the country.
Quite a game of three-card monte Mr. Biden is playing here with your money.
Possibly the most hideous thing Mr. Biden has done to empower terrorists was his decision — diabolically revealed on 9/11 this year — to pay Iran $6 billion in exchange for American hostages. By doing so, Mr. Biden created a global market for hostages.
Less than a month later, Hamas terrorists funded by Iran snatched up over 200 hostages and are using those hostages in Mr. Biden’s newest war in Israel. As Mr. Trump observed, the president is a dangerous combination of “incompetence, radicalism and weakness.”
But the hostages held by Hamas are not the only hostages in Mr. Biden’s two new wars.
In his incoherent Oval Office address Thursday night, Mr. Biden announced that he would ask Congress for an added $100 billion to help pay for his two new wars. Though he does not “seek” to send American troops to fight in these wars, he warned that this could change.
Giving him a $100 billion check, he said, will “help us keep American troops out of harm’s way.”
So, you know, if you know what’s best for your son or daughter in uniform, you really should pay up. Would hate to see something bad happen to one of your kids.
(Editor’s note: My wife made me remove the last line of this column because she said it would get me kicked out of our church, sent to hell and probably get me arrested by Mr. Biden’s Department of Justice.)
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
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