{"id":2332366,"date":"2024-08-28T08:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-unserious-foreign-policy-is-a-national-security-threat\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T08:10:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T12:10:17","slug":"harris-unserious-foreign-policy-is-a-national-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-unserious-foreign-policy-is-a-national-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris&#8217; Unserious Foreign Policy Is A National Security Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharris-unserious-foreign-policy-is-a-national-security-threat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2332366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This article reflects\u2063 on the \u200cthird anniversary of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which \u2062resulted in the deaths of 13 servicemembers. Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden, both criticized for their lack of engagement \u2063with the families of the deceased, appear absent in the aftermath of this tragedy. Harris, who was reportedly present in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/listen-elon-musk-presses-robinhood-ceo-about-gamestop-fiasco-restricted-trading\/\" title=\"LISTEN: Elon Musk Presses Robinhood CEO About GameStop Fiasco, Restricted Trading\">decision-making process<\/a> \u200bduring the withdrawal, is painted as a leader who has failed to connect with military personnel and their families during times of\u200b loss.<\/p>\n<p>The article further discusses President Biden&#8217;s visible cognitive decline, noting that while he continues\u2062 to occupy the presidency, there have\u2063 been efforts by Harris and others within his administration to obscure this issue. The author contrasts Biden\u2019s situation to that of \u200cformer President Ronald Reagan, who publicly acknowledged \u200bhis Alzheimer&#8217;s\u2064 diagnosis with transparency.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration is also critiqued for its handling of foreign \u2063policy, \u2063highlighting failures in the Afghanistan\u200c withdrawal, the response to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, and the ongoing terror threats from Iran-backed groups. The administration is portrayed as having made consequential \u200dblunders, with no accountability for those involved in these decisions. \u200bthe piece argues that the Biden-Harris administration presents itself\u200c as unserious and ineffectual in addressing the\u200d significant challenges \u2064facing the nation and the world, an assertion highlighted by Harris&#8217;s prior\u2064 dismissal of\u200b Trump\u200d as an &#8220;unserious\u200c man.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This week marked the third solemn anniversary of the botched, deadly pullout from Afghanistan. Vice President Kamala Harris was nowhere to be seen. President Joe Biden was on his second vacation. The families of the 13 servicemembers who died in Kabul &mdash; none of whom have heard from either Biden or Harris &mdash; asked former President Donald Trump to lay a wreath in Arlington National Cemetery to mark their sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is said to have been &ldquo;the last person in the room&rdquo; as the fateful decision was made to evacuate Afghanistan, even as the Taliban violated Trump&rsquo;s conditions-based withdrawal agreement. Yet leading is about more than making decisions &mdash; it&rsquo;s about leadership &mdash; and leadership, it may be elementary to note, is about leading people. When leading those in uniform, that includes interacting with those in uniform and their families, in time of victory and of loss.<\/p>\n<p>Yet during her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Harris dismissed former Trump an &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1KI68Y6m-9A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unserious man<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But it is Harris that stands as the <em>de facto<\/em> leader of an administration that has shown itself to be entirely unserious on national security. Her position as Biden&rsquo;s second-in-command has been one of presiding over a series of disastrous decisions. Harris is fully complicit in the administration&rsquo;s manifold national security failures, including the most dangerous threat &mdash; covering up the extent of Biden&rsquo;s mental decline.<\/p>\n<h2>Covering Up Biden&rsquo;s Decline<\/h2>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s cognitive deterioration &mdash; his unsteady gait, frequent verbal gaffes, and inability to respond coherently to basic questions &mdash; signaled a serious problem for years. But it was after his final, crushing loss in the debate with Trump that Biden&rsquo;s decline could no longer be hidden.<\/p>\n<p>Then, after being relegated to a midnight swansong at the convention, Biden immediately slouched off to one vacation in Santa Barbara, California, followed without respite for work by another in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is checked out &mdash; presuming he could ever check back in &mdash; with Harris and the Democratic Party caring only about the preservation of political power. They executed a half coup d&rsquo;&eacute;tat, removing Biden as nominee but not going all the way via invoking the 25<sup>th<\/sup> Amendment. This leaves Biden&rsquo;s empty husk in office to serve as a sham scapegoat, indulging Harris the fiction of running as an outsider in her own administration with the help of the media-industrial complex.<\/p>\n<h2>The Reagan Contrast<\/h2>\n<p>Contrast Biden&rsquo;s actions with former President Ronald Reagan, who, in 1994, five years and 10 months after leaving office, made a public announcement to the world: He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease. Reagan, then 83, chose to address his illness with courage and transparency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reaganlibrary.gov\/reagans\/ronald-reagan\/reagans-letter-announcing-his-alzheimers-diagnosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">through a heartfelt letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This openness allowed the nation to reflect on his legacy and marked an important chapter in America&rsquo;s handling of serious medical conditions affecting leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today, President Joe Biden is 81, and the differences between Reagan&rsquo;s graceful exit and Biden&rsquo;s current leadership are stark. Unlike Reagan, who acknowledged his deteriorating condition as a private citizen, Biden remains in the Oval Office as commander-in-chief. And yet, despite Biden&rsquo;s incapacity, Harris and Biden&rsquo;s cabinet and senior staff have covered up the president&rsquo;s condition &mdash; a testament to the fundamental unseriousness (and frankly foolhardiness) of both Harris and the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<h2>National Security Failures<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration has presided over the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-blasts-blinken-over-bidens-foreign-policy-failures-during-heated-senate-hearing\/\" title=\"Cruz criticizes Blinken for Biden&#039;s foreign policy failures in Senate hearing\">catastrophic foreign policy failures<\/a> in modern American history. Consider the deadly fiasco that unfolded in Kabul in August 2021. As the U.S. prepared to withdraw from Afghanistan, a process that should have been measured and orderly turned into a chaotic disaster. Thirteen U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing during the evacuation, while thousands of American citizens and Afghan allies were left stranded. The rapid fall of Kabul to the Taliban, a group that harbored and aided the 9\/11 terrorists, was a monumental failure of planning and execution &mdash; one in which Harris&rsquo; presence in key decision-making rooms makes her complicit, at the least. And not one general, diplomat, or national security staffer has been held to account. Not a single decision-maker has lost their job.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the Biden administration&rsquo;s handling of Russia&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. After months of warning signs and clear intelligence reports pointing to Russian President Vladimir Putin&rsquo;s aggressive designs on Ukraine, the administration failed to deter Russia&rsquo;s actions. Instead, the White House watched passively as Russian forces launched a full-scale invasion of a sovereign nation in Europe. The ensuing war has led to widespread destruction, untold human suffering, and instability in global energy markets &mdash; all on the watch of an administration that should have taken stronger steps to prevent the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Hamas&rsquo; brutal terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, underscored the Biden administration&rsquo;s failure to contain the resurgence of Iran&rsquo;s terror proxies. The massacre, involving rape, murder, and torture, demonstrated that the administration&rsquo;s policy in the region is in tatters. Iran, the primary backer of Hamas and other terror proxies, has reemerged as a major player, emboldened by a White House that has failed to hold Tehran accountable while shipping the Iranian regime billions of dollars. The administration&rsquo;s continued willingness to engage with Iran, lifting sanctions and negotiating weak nuclear deals, has only strengthened the regime&rsquo;s resolve to destabilize the region.<\/p>\n<h2>An Unserious Administration<\/h2>\n<p>Harris&rsquo; comment that Trump is an &ldquo;unserious man&rdquo; rings hollow when considering the catastrophic failures of the administration she now effectively leads in all but title only. The Biden-Harris administration has shown itself to be utterly incapable of confronting the serious challenges facing America and the world. From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/guest-column-why-im-taking-a-break-from-answering-media-questions-to-focus-on-mental-health-and-mindfulness\/\" title=\"GUEST COLUMN: Why I\u2019m Taking a Break from Answering Media Questions To Focus on Mental Health and Mindfulness\">foreign policy disasters<\/a> to economic mismanagement, the failures of this administration are legion.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in Harris&rsquo; own acceptance speech, she <a href=\"https:\/\/d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net\/static\/2024\/08\/REMARKS-AS-PREPARED-FOR-DELIVERY-Vice-President-Harris-Acceptance-Speech.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed she would<\/a>, &ldquo;never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists &hellip; never waver in defense of America&rsquo;s security and ideals.&rdquo; But we&rsquo;ve long since overdrawn our accounts &mdash; we&rsquo;ve written checks we can&rsquo;t cash. Just last week, Harris&rsquo; U.S. Navy announced it was <a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2024\/08\/22\/navy-could-sideline-17-support-ships-due-to-manpower-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mothballing 17 support ships<\/a> due to lack of qualified personnel &mdash; ships such as resupply vessels, fleet oilers, and transport ships. Words are cheap, deterring war is expensive, war with China would be catastrophic.<\/p>\n<p>By refusing to remove Biden from office, Harris has demonstrated that she is not the capable leader she claims to be. Instead of prioritizing the safety and security of the nation, she has allowed a cognitively impaired president to remain in power, all while presiding over a series of foreign policy blunders that have emboldened America&rsquo;s enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration&rsquo;s unseriousness is the true national security threat. Harris&rsquo;s inaction and coverup in the face of Biden&rsquo;s decline, coupled with her failure to competently manage foreign policy, has left America more vulnerable than ever.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p>      Chuck DeVore is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-green-energy-transition-costs-you-way-more-and-gives-you-way-less\/\" title=\"Democrats\u2019 Green Energy \u2018Transition\u2019 Costs You Way More And Gives You Way Less\">chief national initiatives officer<\/a> at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a former California legislator, and a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. He&#8217;s the author of <a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0BGNKPTLR\">&ldquo;The Crisis of the House Never United&mdash;A Novel of Early America.&rdquo; <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marked the third anniversary of the tragic and poorly executed withdrawal from Afghanistan. Vice President Kamala Harris was absent, while President Joe Biden was on his second vacation. The families of the 13 servicemembers who lost their lives in Kabul\u2014none of whom have received any communication from either Biden or Harris\u2014requested that former President Donald Trump lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery to honor their sacrifice. <\/p>\n<p>Harris is reported to have been &#8220;the last person in the room&#8221; when the critical decision to evacuate Afghanistan was made, despite the Taliban&#8217;s breach of Trump&#8217;s conditions for withdrawal. However, effective leadership goes beyond decision-making; it involves engaging with service members and their families during both triumphs and tragedies.<\/p>\n<p>During her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Harris referred to Trump as an &#8220;unserious man.&#8221; Yet it is she who effectively leads an administration that has demonstrated a lack of seriousness regarding national security. As Biden&#8217;s second-in-command, her tenure has coincided with a series of disastrous decisions, making her complicit in numerous national security failures\u2014including perhaps the most concerning issue: concealing Biden\u2019s cognitive decline.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s mental deterioration\u2014evident through his unsteady walk, frequent verbal mistakes, and inability to answer simple questions\u2014has been apparent for years. However, after his significant loss in a debate against Trump, this decline became impossible to ignore. Following this event, he quickly retreated into two vacations without fulfilling any work obligations.<\/p>\n<p>Biden appears disengaged from his role as president\u2014with Harris and the Democratic Party seemingly focused solely on maintaining political power rather than addressing serious issues. They orchestrated what can be described as a half coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat by sidelining Biden as nominee without fully invoking the 25th Amendment; thus leaving him in office merely as a figurehead while allowing Harris to project herself as an outsider within her own administration with media support.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast stands former President Ronald Reagan who publicly announced his Alzheimer\u2019s diagnosis five years after leaving office in 1994\u2014a move characterized by courage and transparency that allowed America to reflect on his legacy during difficult times related to leadership health issues.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s situation is starkly different: at age 81, Biden remains commander-in-chief despite evident incapacity while Harris along with senior staff continue covering up for him\u2014a clear indication of their unseriousness regarding governance.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration has overseen some of modern American history&#8217;s most significant foreign policy blunders. The chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan in August 2021 resulted not only in thirteen U.S service members&#8217; deaths due to a suicide bombing but also left many Americans and Afghan allies stranded amidst turmoil\u2014the rapid takeover by Taliban forces exemplifying severe planning failures where no one has faced accountability or lost their job over these events.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally troubling is how they handled Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine beginning February 2022; despite ample warnings about Putin&#8217;s intentions towards Ukraine leading up until then\u2014the administration failed entirely at deterrence allowing Russian forces free rein resulting ultimately into widespread destruction across Europe\u2014all under watchful eyes that should have acted decisively beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently highlighted was Hamas\u2019 brutal attack on Israel which underscored failures surrounding Iran-backed terrorism resurgence under this administration; Iran continues receiving billions while being emboldened due largely because Washington hasn\u2019t held them accountable nor taken strong stances against such threats effectively undermining regional stability further exacerbating tensions globally instead fostering peace initiatives needed now more than ever before!<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 claim about Trump being \u201cunserious\u201d rings hollow given these catastrophic outcomes stemming directly from policies she supports leading alongside him! This current regime lacks capability confronting pressing challenges facing our nation today\u2014from foreign policy disasters down economic mismanagement\u2014it seems endless!<\/p>\n<p>Despite claiming readiness \u201cto defend our forces\u201d against threats posed by Iran &amp; its proxies previously mentioned\u2014it appears we\u2019ve long since exhausted resources available without tangible results achieved thus far! Just last week reports surfaced indicating U.S Navy mothballing seventeen support ships due personnel shortages highlighting dire state military readiness currently facing us all!<\/p>\n<p>By failing remove incapacitated leader like Joe Biden out office altogether demonstrates Kamala Harris isn\u2019t capable leader she professes herself be instead prioritizing political ambitions over safety\/security interests citizens deserve protection afforded them through competent governance practices upheld consistently throughout history past present future alike! <\/p>\n<p>Ultimately unseriousness exhibited here poses true threat national security itself wherein both parties involved must take responsibility rectify course correct before irreparable damage done beyond repair possible anymore moving forward together united front once again restoring faith trust public institutions serving best interests everyone involved equally fairly justly always above all else paramount importance today tomorrow forevermore!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":2332367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/47740325001_7442a6ec8c_k-e1724780827713.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4551,4021,23344,33017,39503],"class_list":["post-2332366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-foreign-policy","tag-harris","tag-national-security","tag-political-analysis","tag-u-s-leadership"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/47740325001_7442a6ec8c_k-e1724780827713.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2332367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}