In November 2009, the late Charles Krauthammer gave a seminal speech, titled “Decline Is a Choice.” In it, Krauthammer stated, “The question of whether America is in decline cannot be answered yes or no. There is no yes or no … Nothing is inevitable. Nothing is written. For America today, decline is not a condition. Decline is a choice.”
This week, President Joe Biden chose decline.
That choice was not inevitable. It was foolhardy in the extreme, a symptom of Biden’s commitment to his own idiotic ideology — an ideology that crashed headlong into the steel wall of reality in Afghanistan. Former Presidents Obama and Trump both wanted to remove the United States from Afghanistan, but both recognized the reality on the ground: that removing all American support from the Afghan military would result in the Taliban — the terrorist regime responsible for providing aid and support to Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaida in the run-up to and aftermath of 9/11 — taking over the country.
Biden knew this. He just didn’t care. As he reportedly expressed in 2010, while speaking with Richard Holbrooke about American responsibility in Afghanistan, “F—- that, we don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.”
And so, Biden destroyed the stalemate in Afghanistan that had allowed America’s counterterror mission in-country to continue successfully. The Afghan military was built to work with U.S. close air support; Biden withdrew that support. In fact, he went so far as to bar American contractors from entering the country to help the Afghan air force maintain its equipment. He cut the Afghan military off at the knees, then blamed them when they left the battlefield.
And Biden lied. He lied that Afghanistan represented an “endless war” carrying the possibility of “endless rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery”; in reality, the United States ended its combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014, had just 2,500 troops on the ground before Biden’s unplanned pullout, and has not suffered a combat casualty since February 2020. Biden suggested that his hands were tied by a tentative agreement between the Trump administration and the Taliban, though he has had no problem abrogating Trump’s agreements, and despite the fact that the Taliban had obviously failed to fulfill any of the contingencies under the Trump agreement. And he lied that the Afghan military’s collapse simply reflected a lack of willpower: The Afghan military incurred 55,000 deaths since 2015, compared with nearly none from NATO.
Why did Biden do all of this?
Because American strength is not Biden’s priority. He wants America’s footprint on the world stage minimized; he wants America focused as much as possible on building a Nordic-style social welfare state accompanied by racially inflammatory equity programming at home.
The result of Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will be a reconstituted terror threat as our enemies recognize we are a paper tiger; renewed Chinese aggression against Taiwan and diplomatic overtures toward the Taliban; and new offensives from Russia and Iran. Foreign policy abhors a vacuum. Biden has willfully created one. What’s more, in abandoning an ally of two decades, Biden has sent a clear message: Those who rely on American support can no longer do so securely. They’d be better off making realpolitik connections with America’s enemies in order to hedge their bets.
Meanwhile, Biden presses forward toward American hospice care. With the economy under inflationary pressure, he continues to foster trillions in spending, extraordinary new entitlement programs and a complete rethinking of the relationship between individuals and the government.
If there is a Biden doctrine, it’s simply this: surrender abroad, bloated dotage at home. Decline is a choice. And Biden has made that choice.
Ben Shapiro, 37, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “How To Destroy America In Three Easy Steps,” “The Right Side Of History,” and “Bullies.” To find out more about Ben Shapiro and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
“Why did Biden do all of this?
Because American strength is not Biden’s priority. He wants America’s footprint on the world stage minimized; he wants America focused as much as possible on building a Nordic-style social welfare state accompanied by racially inflammatory equity programming at home.
He prefers to fight the COVID war and imprison his own people through mandates, lockdowns, and government control. He feels more confident as a Demander-In-Chief as opposed to a Commander-In-Chief. He can cause his own destruction here in a way he feels that he can manage.
“If there is a Biden doctrine, it’s simply this: surrender abroad, bloated dotage at home. Decline is a choice. And Biden has made that choice.”
Impeach Biden
The plan is to destroy the middle class so the Globalists and New World Order folks can complete their vision of the world. The Elites and the surfs, no middle class trouble makers allowed.
DESTROYING america, is ultimately HIS GOAL.. So of course he chose ‘decline’.
With the loss of Afghanistan to the Taliban and its allied Islamic terrorist groups, I believe we are witnessing a watershed moment in the War on Terror. The Biden-Harris Administration’s decision to abruptly withdraw troops from Afghanistan left our NATO allies in an untenable position and allowed the Taliban to rapidly take control of the vast majority of the country including Kabul and several other major cities. As a result, the momentum of the War on Terror has now swung heavily in favor of radicalized Muslims whose strict interpretation of Islamic ideology provides them with the moral justification to employ violence to convert, enslave, or kill those they regard as unbelievers.
The world desperately needs strong leadership to confront this growing existential threat to western democracies, Israel, and moderate Arab states. Unfortunately, the frail and incompetent Joe Biden has clearly demonstrated that he is incapable of providing that leadership.
I honestly belive, the traitors in office, HATED THAT TRUMP Had most of those terror groups, defeated, or close to it, and WANTED TO PROP THEM UP, to let them recouperate and rearm/man…
Biden is in mental decline at warp speed and Biden has sent our Country into a decline that we will never get out of.
Is this the future of America where someone can steal and election f-up the entire future for generations to come and nothing or anyone can do anything to rid our country of this satanic entity and all of his handlers and supporters? ***!!!!!!