New Proof of Biden’s Willingness to Share Information with the West’s Enemies to Shirk the Responsibility of Confronting Them and to Try to Ignore Them
The Wall Street Journal Uncovers Fresh Evidence of Biden’s Iran Love
God— if there’s one shred of news you should read today it’s the Wall Street Journal Exclusive article “US Secretly Warned Iran of Islamic State Terrorist Attack. It discloses that the Biden administration secretly warned Iran before the ISIS-K terrorist attack at the ceremony to commemorate IRGC Quds Force General Qassem Suleimani that killed 80 people in Iran a month ago.
Here’s the bottom line. If you don’t subscribe to the Journal (though you must), this is all you need to know.
A U.S. intelligence community directive known as “duty to warn” requires spy agencies to warn intended victims, both U.S. citizens and non-Americans, if they are the target of a terrorist attack. There are exceptions, including if the intended victims are themselves terrorists or criminals, or if issuing a warning would endanger U.S. or allied government personnel, or intelligence or military operations.
In the case of Iran, Washington alerted an adversary that has armed multiple proxies, including Yemen’s Houthis as well as militias in Syria and Iraq that have carried out more than 150 attacks on American forces since mid-October.
One former U.S. official said there could be a number of reasons for Washington to warn Iran. In addition to protecting innocent civilians, such a warning might be intended to prevent Tehran from responding to the attack in a way that could create further instability in the region and potentially undermine U.S. interests.
Other former officials said that providing such a warning might also be a way to spur dialogue on foreign policy issues.
For all the backdoor self-dealing of this morally bankrupt and downright stupid administration, this has to be the most preposterously depraved thing yet since the DOJ attempts to get away with ducking to prosecute Hunter for the tax and gun crimes. But I suppose it doesn’t add much to what we already know about the craven lengths Biden officials are willing to go to kiss up to our enemies in the hopes, somehow, that it will stop their aggression.
Does not one goddamn person in the administration know how crazy the nature of these regimes are, and hell bent on regional if not world domination?
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Does it look, to you, like any of these mass-murdering psychopaths want to cooperate on a “longer and stronger” nuclear deal, a diplomatic “thaw,” a “two-state solution” or negotiations for “peace” of any kind with the United States? Is it not the one lesson we learned over the last two decades, let alone last two years, actually that neither Russia nor Iran is— or can possibly be—trusted? Is each and all of these powers not more closely aligned with the others than ever? Doesn’t the axis of resentment seem to be getting thicker every day?
Couldn’t one be forgiven for thinking that the more conciliatory we try to be, the deeper their alliances become? Or, that something about this guy rather hardens their determination to overthrow the international order?
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The Biden administration’s next terrible idea in the tortured calculus of “deescalation” is to see if China would be so kind so as to use its influence over Iran to restrain Iran’s militias. This was also in the Journal. And I read it in the Financial Times. Jake Sullivan, Biden’s deescalation czar, is scheduled to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Thailand in the coming weeks.
Despite China loving the war in Gaza, because it’s an opportunity to turn the Global South against the United States (as well perhaps as woke Gen Z Americans) by becoming the pre-eminent superpower spokesman for the Palestinians, the PRC is in no mood to do America any favors amid its ideological competition with Western values. And the economic fallout in the Red Sea won’t hurt China worse than the degradation of shipping will hurt us. It’s also useless because China can’t stop Israel from going after Hamas and Hezbollah; and Iran is not about to throw away this unique opportunity to overwhelm and isolate Israel.
In any event, Iran would tell China its proxies are out of their hands, and China would be gratified to resume to take the moral high ground and throw Biden’s diplomacy right back at him by saying flatly peace in the Middle East is inconceivable until Israel ends its campaign of “collective punishment.” This is why the Houthi’s are bombing shipping anyway ostensibly—it’s because of Israel. Why wouldn’t China say the same thing?
The fact is strategically, Iran has to support its proxies and its proxies have to support each other all to maintain their credibility; and China has to be firm on Palestinian statehood, because of its long term interest in leading the developing world and displacing the American-led world order. Israel is in the fight of its life, and because we share common enemies, so is America and Europe. It’s pretty cut and dry. You can be either with Israel to save the Jewish State from absolutely brutal Islamist terrorists and save the world from a revanchist Iran, or, you can be with Iran, Russia and China. Pick a side. It’s your choice. Freedom or tyranny.
Nobody wants to make peace, and for the love of God, we don’t have any common interests with China anymore, not in handling climate change, not in trade at least with advanced technology, and not in oil markets or Middle Eastern affairs. But these are not the cold war 2 dynamics you can expect the thin-skinned—one part gerontocracy, two parts race-obsessed Gen Z—Biden White House to understand.
If only more countries that hate us would be as nuanced and peaceful as we are and cooperate!
— Jay
The foreign policy of the Biden Administration, boiled down, is a hymn to that mythical beast, the “rules-based international order.” Jake Sullivan who just days before October 7 touched the great success of the Biden Administration in keeping the Middle East quiet, is just the choirmaster to lead that hymn.