OPINION:
Israelis were getting bombed — President Biden was barbecuing — and influential members serving this administration were busily helping spy for Iran. Any questions?
Biden isn’t just bad for America. He’s dangerous to the world.
A weak America emboldens the evil players of the world. And that’s just what’s happened under this Biden administration.
“The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails,” the Tablet just wrote, in a piece titled, “High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington,” published on Oct. 1.
A few days later — this, from Sen. Rick Scott’s website: “Sen. Rick Scott, Ted Cruz & Roger Wicker Demand Accountability from Defense of Defense after Revelations of Iranian Spy Ring.”
In a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the senators called for the revoking of the security clearance for the chief of staff to the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict — Ariane Tabatabai — “who was engaged in an Iranian regime-linked operation” and who has been “linked to an Iranian spy ring” within the U.S. government, the press release stated.
Hmm.
Consider that through the vein of the $6 billion Biden wants released to Iran; the loosening of sanctions on Iran that Biden approved a year ago as a pathway to new nuclear deal talks; the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan that set the world on notice of the utter weakness and fecklessness of this administration — and now, the ongoing inability of this administration to recognize its own weaknesses and failures, a situation that says no course correction is coming.
No wonder this White House has so many spies for Iran working within U.S. government offices.
They have nothing to fear.
Nothing to fear — and everything to gain.
“U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken overrode a Republican-issued hold on $75 million in food assistance for the Palestinian Territories, hours before the money was set to be forcibly redistributed elsewhere,” Haaretz wrote on October 4.
You think Blinken regrets that? You think this White House is poised to apologize?
The intelligence failures of this Hamas attack on Israel are stunning. Israel missed it — but America did, as well. So somebody, somewhere, somebody and somewhere along the line had some serious high-level help. Hamas couldn’t have done this without Iran; Iran couldn’t have done this without the funds and intelligence. And this White House has helped Iran on those scores.
Where have all the billions of dollars worth of weapons and pieces of military equipment America left in the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan gone, anyway?
“The Taliban Are Now Arms Dealers,” as Foreign Policy wrote in July.
The piece went on to report how the “U.S. military retreated from Afghanistan two years ago, leaving behind weapons that are now turning up in far-flung trouble spots where terrorists are fighting and killing America’s allies. In markets that have sprung up across the southern and eastern badlands, where the hottest fighting of the war took place, merchants with Taliban permits are offering U.S.-made automatic assault rifles and handguns for sale … Business, like terrorism, is thriving. … It’s a new arms race — and it’s threatening global security.”
But from this White House — nothing but wishy-washy, duck-and-cover, CYA rhetoric.
When asked on national news if this terrorist attack on Israel is due in any part to this Biden White House’s intelligence failures, Blinken said, “This is an attack I don’t think anyone saw coming. … We will have plenty of — the Israelis will have plenty of time to look into that, all of us will have time to look into that.”
Wrong.
This is an attack plenty predicted would come under this weak, feckless, incompetent and corrupt White House.
Everybody but the leftists whom Biden employs knew that the world’s nefarious players would take advantage of this administration’s incompetence and kick off hostilities before a new president could be elected.
Everybody knew the time was ticking to take advantage of America’s weak world presence.
Everybody knew this was coming — and more. You think Taiwan is on edge right now?
You think Russia isn’t strategizing for the best possible exploit?
The fact that Biden could even picnic while World War III whispers is only more guarantee that World War III is truly on its way. The message is: America is on vacation. Evil, do as you will.
And in the days and weeks to come, watch. Evil will certainly be busily doing its will.
• 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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