Mark Hemingway of the Federalist blames the current president for “causing constant chaos.”
[A]s news broke that Iran was launching a barrage of missiles at Israel this past weekend, one might reach the conclusion that, yes, presidents who create actual chaos are a bad thing. The problem is that America’s political class has its head so sunk into its posterior, it can’t begin to be honest about what real “chaos” looks like.
As one of the more incisive pseudonymous X accounts observed over the weekend, “Most of what the media is referring to when they describe the Trump presidency as ‘chaotic’ were things like tweets, personnel changes and Russiagate leaks. Now the whole world is on fire and they’re still behaving like going back to that would be catastrophic.”
With that in mind, let’s add some context to the Iranian attack over the weekend: Biden has been eager to continue the Obama-era policy of abandoning our traditional Sunni allies in the Middle East to make Iran the center of power in the region. This meant a questionable deal to make Iran a nuclear power and handing over billions of dollars to the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, which was also responsible for killing a large number of American troops in the Iraq war. …
… Of course, this latest escalation from Iran was just the culmination of the Biden/Obama Iran policy. Let’s not forget very early on, Biden removed the Houthis — an Iranian proxy — from the official list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorist Groups” as a sop to Tehran. Before returning them to the list earlier this year, the Houthis were basically allowed to run amok, launching missiles at Israel and wreaking havoc with global shipping routes by launching attacks in the Red Sea. …
… Under Biden, the U.S. Navy, whose major peacetime responsibility is securing global shipping routes, looks feckless to address a bunch of bush league terrorists. The result is that Americans are paying more for gas and all manner of goods because a huge amount of global shipping is being rerouted around the horn of Africa for security reasons.
