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Biden Malaise — Worst Start for a U.S. President Ever?


He promised to restore American normalcy, yet is bedeviled on every front. Even Democrats agree his wounds are self-inflicted.


F BY EDWARD O. HENRY


or nations accustomed to images of u.s. strength rather than despair, the chaotic retreat amid the ISIS-K attack in Afghanistan that killed 13 American warriors was stunning.


Presidential historians and political analysts were taken


aback for a diff erent reason, however. They’ve begun asking whether any modern presidency


had gotten off to a worse start than the one now owned by Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. Author and Newsmax TV host Dick Morris, credited with saving the Clinton presidency, tells Newsmax: “The only


presidencies that I think got off to so horrifi c a start were those of Andrew Johnson [Abraham Lincoln’s vice president, who presided over Reconstruction after the Civil War] and Herbert Hoover [the stock market crashed shortly after he took offi ce].” Among the setbacks in Biden’s fi rst eight months: chaos


on a suddenly porous southern border, resurgent COVID-19 variants, an aggressive and unrepentant China, Iran’s march toward developing nuclear weapons, a massive crime wave following the move by some cities to defund police, and spiral- ing infl ation. These are a few of the wounds endured by the Biden


China Cheers Afghan Debacle U


BY MICHAEL DORSTEWITZ


nited States citizens and world leaders alike are judging President


Joe Biden’s abrupt exit from Afghanistan as more of an unconditional surrender to a terror organization than an orderly withdrawal of forces. Dean Cheng, senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center, said our departure “continues to undermine the image of American


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capability and competency.” The decision to pull out has prompted


questions about the extent to which the administration would be willing to help other allies — especially Taiwan, an island lying off the coast of mainland China that Beijing has always considered part of the country. And to be sure, the people of Taiwan


are wondering that also. But, as it turns out, it’s not necessarily Taiwan that may need to worry — it’s the


United States. James Carafano, The Heritage


Foundation’s vice president for national security and foreign policy, believes Beijing sees greater gains at stake than simply the potential to seize Taiwan. He believes that by turning Afghanistan


over to the Taliban, the U.S. not only provided a base for terrorism to thrive but also gave up access to natural resources — vital to U.S. technology. Up through World War II, the valuable


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