Twenty-two years after Sept. 11, the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history seems like distant memory, with most Americans as jaded about terrorism as they are about 80-year-old President Joe Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin. When Sept. 11 hit, 77-year-old former President George W. Bush consulted with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who followed Russian President Vladimr Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao, who preceded 70-year-old Chinese President Xi Jinping. Today, things are different with Biden making an enemy or Putin and the Xi Jinping. No longer can the U.S. rely on its two Communist adversaries to work diplomatic relations. Biden completed his visit yesterday to the G20 summit in New Delhi, where he received a tepid reaction to his proxy war against the Kremlin. Biden has alienated the two most important nuclear-armed adversaries.
Sept 11 stands as one of the great oversights in U.S. history, where the country found itself blindsided by Islamic terrorists led by Osama bin Laden. It took Bush weeks to conclude that Bin Laden was behind the attacks on the World Trade Center Twin Towers, Pentagon and Shanksville, Pa. After 19 al-Qaeda terrorists flew jetliner into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and Shanksville, 2,996 were dead, creating a horror for first responders with 434 firefighters and 43 police killed on that day. Sept. 11 forever changed life, especially air travel with Bush crating the federal Transportation Security Aency [TSA] to guard against future attack. Blindsiding the U.S. government, Bin Laden had broken through U.S. defenses, raining permanent damage on the country. Whether any U.S. airline traveler likes it or not, the whole world adheres to strict guidelines to prevent more terrorist attacks.
GOP presidential candidates, including 77-year-old President Donald Trump expressed condolences of the civilians and first-responders who lost their lives. “God bless the members of all of those who perished in the 9/11 attacks,” Trump said in a video posted on his Truth Social platform. Showing no reverence for the date, the anti-Trump media pointed out that Trump said on Sept. 11 that one his properties was now the tallest in Manhattan. No president was harsher and more vigilan about eradicating Islamic terrorists than Trump during his presidency. Trump went after Islamic State founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, eventually killing him Oct. 27, 2019. Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden had been killed in a Navy Seal raid May 2, 2011, under the watch of former President Barack Obama. It took ten years but the U.S. to redeem Bush’s promise of justice for Sept. 11 terrorists.
Biden also commemorated Sept. 11, just off his G20 summit and visit to Hanoi, Vietnam, where he sought cooperation with Vietnam to push back against the growing influence of Communist China. Instead of talking peace, Biden continues to push his proxy war against the Russian Federation, expecting all countries to back his conflict with Putin. Biden doesn’t get the cooperation needed with America’s adversaries to confront global terrorism, still raining havoc as recently as Aug. 26, 2020, when Biden ordered U.S. end to the 20-year-old Afghan conflict. IS terrorists struck during the U.S. withdrawal, killing 11 U.S. Marines. Biden’s proxy war against the Kremlin and ongoing hostilities toward Communist China have made terrorism a worse threat to the U.S. by alienating Russia and China. Biden pretends that Russia and China were not helpful to the U.S. in the days after Sept. 11.
Instead of working on repairing tattered U.S. foreign policy, Biden does everything to dishonor that memory of Sept. 11 victims but creating a go-it-alone foreign policy, no longer counting on U.S. adversaries. “Twenty-two years ago, nineteen terrorists took 2,997 innocent lives in the deadliest attack against America in our history. We will never forget,” said 44-year-old GOP candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Wuthout saying it, Biden has increased the risk of terrorism by destroying decades of diplomacy and détente with the Russian Federation and China. Biden no longer has a partners in arms control while he’s at war with the Kremlin. Guarding against terrorism, it’s essential for U.S. foreign policy to have cooperative, working relations with U.S. adversaries. Isolating the U.S. from Russia and China has endangered U.S. national security and prospects of terrorism.
Biden’s proxy war against Russia and hostility toward China has endangered U.S. national security and made terrorism more likely. Former President George W. Bush worked with U.S. allies and adversaries to assure better protection from Islamic terrorism. Biden’s foreign policy leaves the U.S. fully exposed by having no help from U.S. adversaries with a U.S. go-it-alone foreign policy, only counting on allies for help. Biden tossed decades of Russian diplomacy, détente and arms control to go to the defense of Ukraine. Ukraine has no national security significance to the United States but has no become Biden’s rally cry to the rest of the world. If G10 told him anything, the U.S. must get along with its adversaries and friends if it wants better protection and any future terrorist episodes. Biden doesn’t honor Sept. 11 victims by alienating Russia and China in U.S. foreign policy.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
