LOS ANGELES.–President Joe Biden, 81, indicated how he will respond to the terrorist attacks on U.S. base Tower 22 in Jordan Jan. 28 by Iranian-backed militias, saying he didn’t want a war with Iran. Calls from Congress, especially from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) urged Biden to go to the source of the attacks, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran denies it has anything to do with the so-called “axis of resistance,” a fake moniker that gives Iran cover for attacking the U.S. and Israel to support the so-called Palestinian cause. Biden decided to wait-and-see rather than deal with the undeniable reality that the Aytollah foments revolution in the Mideast and Horn of African. Biden should talk to 38-year-old Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia. Bin Salman has battled Iranian-backed, Yemen’s Houthi rebels for years.
Bin Salman knows Iran’s fake tactics claiming that they only back attacks on the Zionist regime in Jerusalem, when, in fact, the Aytatollah launched proxy war using Yemen’s Houthi rebels against the Kingdom since 2015 for the last nine years. Are Saudis considred a Zionist regime to the Ayatollah? Saudi’s Mecca-based Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, head of the Sunni Islam religion sponsoring the yearly Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, considers the Ayatollah’s Shiite Muslim sect apostates. So when it comes to the Ayatollah trying to dominate the Middle East, it has nothing to do with the plight of Palestinians or Zionists. When you consider that not one Islamic country came to the aid of Palestinians after the Oct. 7, Israeli-Hamas War, it speaks volumes about Iran’s fake “axis of resistance.” Iran uses the fake moniker to gain support from the Sunni Islamic world.
Biden’s failure to deal with Iran relates to the fact that he’s mired in a failed proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin. Graham and other war hawks back Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine but don’t acknowledge how it ties Biden’s hands to stop various Iran-backed terror groups from disrupting international shipping in the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman where some 20% of world’s oil supply travels. Biden’s bevy war hawks on Capitol Hill don’t see the damage the Ukraine War does to U.S. foreign policy and national security. Biden ended generations of diplomacy, détente and arms control with Russia, turning cooperative relations into a mortal enemy. Biden and his troop of Neocons, both Republicans and Democrats, have wrecked U.S. foreign policy and national security. Biden can’t act to protect U.S. Mideast military bases because he’s at war with the Kremlin.
All the talk of widening the Israeli-Hamas war is a smokescreen because not one Islamic state or Iranian-based terror group has come to Hamas’ rescue. All the Biden White House talk about widening the war is nonsense, listening to the Ayatollah himself say that Iran would not commit any military assets to protecting Palestinians. Khamenei told former Palestinian leader Khaled Meshaal that he would not get involved because he was not informed in advance about the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. Biden can’t intervene to stop Iran’s state-sponsored terrorism because Pentagon resources have been squandered on Ukraine. “I don’t think we need a wider war in the Middle East. That’s not what I’m looking for,” Biden said, telling the press he opposes calls in Congress to deal directly with Tehran. Members of Congress backing the Ukraine War need to take a serious inventory.
Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin has turned U.S. foreign policy and national security on its head. U.S. can no longer count on any global cooperation from the Russian Federation, something that the State Department counted on since the end of WW II. “I do hold . . . them responsible in the sense that they’re supplying the weapons” to the groups carrying out the attacks. Biden’s logic would hold any global arms supplier, including the U.S., responsible for wars around the planet. Arms suppliers are not the ones responsible for pulling the trigger, sponsoring insurrection and revolution around the world. Biden knows that the Ayatollah’s “axis of resistance” is a transparent cover for Iran destabilizing the Mideast and Horn of Africa. Creating havoc in international waters is no different than Houthi or Somali pirates disrupting global commerce.
Biden has failed as commander-in-chief to defend U.S. foreign policy and national security. His proxy war in Ukraine against the Kremlin has tied his hands in the Mideast and Horn of Africa to deal with treats to U.S. interests and global commerce. Whatever deaths to three U.S. soldiers in Tower 22 logistical base in Jordan from a drone attack, Biden can’t respond other than throwaway missile attacks. Biden follows the exact same path as former President Bill Clinton before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist nightmare hit America. Together with his reckless war in Ukraine, Biden has wrecked generations of diplomacy, détente and arms control with Russia. He know can’t do anything to protect U.S. interests because he’s turned foreign policy and national security upside down.
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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.
