For those focused on the central issue — the existential threat to the country and indeed the West — the choice of Trump is obvious. Gates did not say so, but if past is prologue, Biden would be to the CCP as President Jimmy Carter was to the U. S. S. R.: naive and paralyzed.
Washington Post: Biden is the wrong choice to lead the West through Cold War 2.0 . . . "Gates was a guest recently on my radio show to discuss his new book, “Exercise of Power.” I asked him about Biden and specifically that comment. “Yeah, I stand by that statement,” Gates replied. “I will say, Hugh, it related mainly to things that had happened in the Cold War,” he added, and expanded on the theme:
“Biden voted against every single arms program, I think, that Ronald Reagan put up on the Hill. He voted for the Iraq war and so on. So I do have those policy differences with him. In the Obama administration, we did have a very deep disagreement on Afghanistan. And that was a big deal.”
PBS: Why Biden’s long foreign policy record could be a liability . . . "But “a long record isn’t [the same as] a good record, and I think that’s where it becomes complex.' ”
Joe Biden’s failed foreign policy record warrants closer look "After all, the six term Delaware Senator was brought onto Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential ticket to counteract the community organizer’s lack of foreign policy chops. Given that Biden served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, twice as its chairman, it seemed like a reasonable fit.
"But now in hindsight, we can see what a dumpster fire the Obama/Biden White House was overseeing America’s national security and foreign affairs.
"Failed “red lines”and genocide in Syria? Check." . . .
"Russian annexation of Crimea? Check.
"ISIS establishing a caliphate and spreading its deadly tentacles around the world? Check, check." . . .
"Then there’s Benghazi and the failed regime change in Libya, the disastrous Iran nuclear deal that gave the world’s leading sponsor of terror $150 billion, much of which ended up in the hands of terror proxies. Each of these foreign policy blunders had dramatic consequences, making the world less safe." . . .
Biden’s Shameful Foreign Policy Record Extends Well Beyond Iraq
Joe Biden is a sad relic of a corrupt era in American politics that has seen both parties support ill-conceived foreign interventions and wars.
Why Joe Biden Gets it Wrong on Foreign Policy . . . "If nothing else, Biden’s recent foreign policy statements are par for the course of his four-decade-long political career—one that has long been characterized by intermittent attempts to seize short-term political advantages by rewriting his own policy history. Since the beginning of the 2020 election, for example, Biden has consistently portrayed himself as an avowed opponent of the Iraq War. “From the moment Shock and Awe started,” said Biden at a Democratic Presidential Debate in 2019, “from that moment, I was opposed to the effort.” But, as numerous fact-checkers have noted, Biden was not at all opposed to “the effort.” In fact, he repeatedly endorsed the invasion of Iraq from 2003 through 2004, even chiding some skeptical Democrats for not being sufficiently supportive of the war effort. Biden’s volte-face only came in 2005, coinciding with his newly revealed intention to explore a presidential run. By then, opposition to the Iraq war was no longer a particularly novel political opinion to hold."
