It’s difficult to choose the single worst portion of Thursday night’s State of the Union address — for sheer unmitigated awfulness, it was a target-rich environment. Personally, however, the lowest point came when Capitol Police arrested Steve Nikoui, the father of Marine Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoui, one of 13 U.S. Marines, soldiers, and sailors killed by an ISIS-K bomb as they put their lives on their line to protect those being evacuated from the Kabul International Airport. The charge was obstructing an official congressional function — one wonders if similar charges might be levelled at the pro-Hamas demonstrators who delayed the State of the Union by almost 30 minutes by forcing President Joe Biden’s motorcade to the Capitol to take a detour. I suspect not.
Neither Biden nor his high-level national security team has ever been properly held accountable for the sheer incompetence of the final withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The Abbey Gate parents, for three years, have asked that Biden finally take ownership of his responsibility for the deaths of their children.
The day after the Oct. 7 massacres, I expressed my concern about the weakness of the Biden administration and the pernicious influence of "The Squad." Several weeks later, I went further, noting that Biden was starting to waffle in his support for Israel.
Last night, appallingly, Biden actually parroted Hamas' absurdly inflated civilian casualty claims while failing to make the obvious point that the surest route to minimizing civilian casualties in Gaza would be for Hamas to stop using women and children as human shields.
"Mission creep" is almost assuredly baked into this proposal, as is Biden's increasingly strident insistence on a six-week ceasefire on terms dictated by Hamas, one the Democrats hope will be extended indefinitely - or, at least, until Biden is safely reelected.
Joe Biden doesn't get this, has never gotten this, and likely never will get this, if last night's speech is any indication.
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