{"id":853702,"date":"2021-10-06T17:44:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=853702"},"modified":"2021-10-06T17:44:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:44:39","slug":"3-times-joe-biden-ignored-his-advisers-and-disaster-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/3-times-joe-biden-ignored-his-advisers-and-disaster-followed\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Times Joe Biden Ignored His Advisers \u2014 And Disaster Followed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2F3-times-joe-biden-ignored-his-advisers-and-disaster-followed%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=853702&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/RP_16x9_211006_BidenArticle.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Months before Democrats cast their first 2020 primary ballot, Joe Biden began highlighting what he believed to be his best selling point: his superior decision-making. \u201cI think my record has been good,\u201d candidate Biden told NPR in September 2019. Even then, his campaign had to deal with Biden\u2019s tendency to let his mind wander or lose his place while speaking, but he insisted that his verbal miscues had \u201cnothing to do with judgment\u201d \u2014 specifically \u201cwhether or not you send troops to war, the judgment of whether you bring someone home.\u201d His campaign argued that his five decades in public service had uniquely equipped him to become, in the words of George W. Bush, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Z7sg_VwkXw\">the decider<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since taking office, Biden has shown notable independence by breaking with the consensus served up to him by a coterie of Obama-era analysts, advisers, and administrators. Unfortunately, most of the times this has happened, the result has been a policy failure for him and, more importantly, a major setback for our country. Here are three such examples.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Collapse Of Afghanistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most conspicuous case in which President Biden disregarded his advisers came when he decided to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan \u2014 and the chaos and carnage that followed.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has been outspoken about his desire to end the U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan, which stretched on two decades since 9\/11 and one decade after the <a href=\"https:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2011\/05\/voting-present-obama-dithered-16-hours-before-killing-bin-laden\/\">death of Osama bin Laden<\/a> (a mission that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/flashback-biden-opposed-bin-laden-raid-bin-laden-thought-biden-would-destroy-u-s-wanted-him-to-be-potus\">President Biden opposed at the time<\/a>). \u201cWe cannot continue this cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan, hoping to create ideal conditions for the withdrawal and expecting a different result,\u201d he said in April. \u201cI\u2019m now the fourth United States president to preside over American troop presence in Afghanistan. Two Republicans, two Democrats. I will not pass this responsibility on to a fifth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/friday-august-20-2021\">publicly denied<\/a> that he struck out on his own, even after the media reported that his closest military advisers recommended leaving a U.S. military force on the ground. \u201cYour military advisors did not tell you, \u2018No, we should just keep 2,500 troops\u2019?\u201d ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/full-transcript-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos-interview-president\/story?id=79535643\">asked<\/a> the president on August 18. \u201cNo,\u201d President Biden replied. \u201cNo one said that to me that I can recall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the cat was already out of the bag. The Wall Street Journal had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-rebuffed-commanders-advice-in-decision-to-leave-afghanistan-11618696597\">reported<\/a> in April that \u201cGen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, Gen. Austin \u2018Scott\u2019&nbsp; Miller, who leads NATO forces in Afghanistan, and Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all recommended retaining the current force of 2,500 troops while stepping up diplomacy to try to cement a peace agreement, U.S. officials say.\u201d During an April 14 meeting in Brussels, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin essentially <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CZRY9kTxHY0?t=1330\">confirmed<\/a> the generals\u2019 dissension over President Biden\u2019s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops by September, regardless of conditions on the ground. And in a statement, the National Security Council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/14\/pentagon-biden-team-overrode-afghanistan-481556\">attested<\/a>, \u201cThe [p]resident, as the Commander in Chief, made the final decision based on the advice of his national security team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All pretense ended on Tuesday, September 28, when Generals McKenzie and Milley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-lied-president-blasted-after-top-generals-directly-contradict-what-biden-said-about-afghanistan\">testified<\/a> to the Senate Armed Services Committee that they strongly advocated for a residual force. \u201cI recommended that we maintained 2,500 troops in Afghanistan,\u201d General McKenzie told Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK). \u201cI also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces, and eventually the Afghan government. \u2026 I\u2019m confident that the president heard all the recommendations and listened to them very thoughtfully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then, the president rejected that advice \u2014 and chaos ensued, based on President Biden\u2019s judgment. The military left hundreds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/defense-secretary-austin-cannot-confirm-or-deny-there-are-thousands-of-americans-left-in-afghanistan\">possibly thousands<\/a>, of Americans stranded in Taliban-controlled territory. A suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. servicemen, and desperate Afghan citizens fells to their deaths while clinging to U.S. evacuation planes in a scene reminiscent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-administration-this-is-not-saigon-cnn-its-worse-than-saigon\">the fall of Saigon<\/a>. The new government of Afghanistan now includes numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-highlights-13-of-the-top-terrorists-that-are-now-in-top-positions-in-taliban-government\">terrorists and extremists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those familiar with Biden\u2019s history of foreign policy judgments \u2014 like his proposal to calm the waters after 9\/11 by <a href=\"http:\/\/inhuanet.com\/\">giving Iran $200 million<\/a> \u201cno strings attached\u201d \u2014 would be less surprised by the outcome. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote of Biden in his autobiography, \u201cHe\u2019s been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lifting President Trump\u2019s \u2018Remain In Mexico\u2019 Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Upon taking office, President Biden made it one of his top priorities to reverse nearly every decision implemented by President Donald Trump as quickly as possible. President Trump had waited years to craft and implement immigration policies like the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which allows the U.S. to remove people claiming to be refugees from the United States until after their case is decided. The so-called \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy aimed to curb job-seekers from gaming the system in order to work in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden-Harris administration attempted to bulldoze Trump\u2019s policies from the outset. Six of the 17 executive orders Biden signed his first day in office had to do with immigration, legal and illegal. The same day, his Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/biden-immigration-executive-orders-daca-reverse-trump-policies\/\">announced<\/a> it would scrap the \u201cRemain in Mexico\u201d policy.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s decision met significant opposition from officials in both the U.S. and Mexican governments, who warned the Biden administration against repealing the Trump-era immigration enforcement protections so quickly. The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/22\/us\/politics\/biden-immigration-border-haitians.html\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p><em>As officials were drawing up migration policy memos, some advisers pushed back against immediately ending the Trump policy \u2014 known as Remain in Mexico \u2014 arguing that it made more sense to unwind the program slowly, according to several people familiar with the discussions who requested anonymity to talk about the debate. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They argued that such an abrupt move, which would open the door to asylum seekers pursuing their claims in the United States, could overwhelm the capacity of U.S. officials. That concern was shared by Mexican officials, who also believed that quickly ending the program could send the wrong message to Central Americans considering the journey north.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Conn Carroll of The Washington Examiner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/mexico-warned-biden-his-border-policies-would-cause-migrant-surge\">pointed out<\/a> that this nugget came \u201cburied 30 paragraphs\u201d into the story.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of lax border protection, coupled with Biden\u2019s apparent campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joe-biden-us-has-obligation-give-healthcare-ryan-saavedra\">promise<\/a> of \u201cfree\u201d healthcare for anyone who can reach the U.S. border, touched off an exodus of illegal immigration that refuses to relent. A total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters\">1,541,651<\/a> million illegal immigrants have entered the United States so far this fiscal year \u2014 the highest in decades. The number of unaccompanied minors skyrocketed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/documents\/2019-Mar\/bp-total-monthly-uacs-sector-fy2010-fy2018.pdf\">16,000<\/a> in 2011 \u2014 the year before the Obama-Biden administration promised not to deport those who registered under the new DACA policy \u2014 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/southwest-land-border-encounters-by-component\">more than 130,000<\/a> this year. That has led to the resumption of children being huddled together in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/these-are-the-biden-cages-sen-cruz-posts-shocking-video-of-border-crisis-smugglers\">crowded conditions<\/a>, something considered intolerable and morally offensive during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Biden administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jen-psaki-says-americans-only-think-theres-a-border-crisis-because-of-the-media\">indefatigable message discipline<\/a>, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-only-1-in-4-democrats-agree-with-biden-that-theres-no-border-crisis\">most Democrats<\/a> believe the southern border is in \u201ccrisis.\u201d Most voters across the board agree that President \u201cBiden should have left in place the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policies,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/latino\/559564-majority-of-voters-say-biden-should-implement-stricter-immigration-policies-poll\">reported<\/a> The Hill in June. A total of 55% of voters said Biden should have retained President Trump\u2019s immigration practices all along, and 67% say anyone apprehended entering the U.S. illegally should be sent back to Mexico, according to a Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll.<\/p>\n<p>The policy proved so disastrous that Biden administration officials privately admitted they felt \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-biden-aides-privately-relieved-courts-reinstated-remain-in-mexico-policy-amid-border-crisis\">relieved<\/a>\u201d in August when the U.S. Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/texas-defeats-biden-scotus-rules-biden-must-restart-remain-in-mexico-policy\">ordered<\/a> the president to reinstate the MPP. \u201cConcern had already been building inside the Biden administration that the speed of its immigration changes may have encouraged migrants to stream toward the United States, current and former officials,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/06\/world\/americas\/mexico-migrants-asylum-border.html?smid=tw-share\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Promising COVID-19 Booster Shots For All By September 20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Biden has made vaccinating the American people against COVID-19 a defining issue of his presidency. After failing to meet his self-imposed goal of vaccinating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-administration-fails-to-meet-july-4-vaccination-goal\">70%<\/a> of Americans by the Fourth of July, Biden increasingly advocated harsher measures for \u201cthe unvaccinated\u201d and required more of those who were fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Biden became one of the foremost global leaders calling on Americans to receive a booster shot. \u201cThe plan is for every adult to get a booster shot eight months after you got your second shot,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/08\/18\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-fighting-the-covid-19-pandemic-2\/\">said<\/a> on August 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision of which booster shots to give, when to start them, and who will give them, will be left completely to the scientists at the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/09\/09\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-fighting-the-covid-19-pandemic-3\/\">promised<\/a> on September 9. As The Daily Wire\u2019s Eric Quintanar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-fda-authorizes-booster-shots-for-at-risk-americans-elderly\">reported<\/a>, \u201cThe president \u2026 anticipated that boosters could be made available to the general public as soon as September 20.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Biden suffered two setbacks. First, the World Health Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/who-extends-call-for-booster-moratorium\">asked<\/a> WHO members to extend a COVID-19 booster shot \u201cmoratorium until at least the end of the year.\u201d Then on September 17, three days before his deadline, an FDA panel voted 16-2 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fda-panel-overwhelmingly-rejects-biden-plan-to-give-booster-shots-to-most-who-got-pfizer-vaccine\">reject<\/a> Biden\u2019s plan to authorize booster shots for most Americans who had received the Pfizer vaccine. But on September 23 Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),&nbsp;authorized booster shots for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cdc-director-backs-pfizer-boosters-goes-more-broad-than-own-panel-recommended\">far wider group of people<\/a> than her panel\u2019s narrow, non-binding recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>Her action led to calls that the Biden administration imposed its predetermined decision in lieu of the science. \u201cCDC Director Rochelle Walensky overruled her agency advisory panel,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/24\/cdc-director-has-overruled-her-agency-advisors-booster-shots\/\">reported<\/a> The Washington Post. President Trump\u2019s coronavirus testing czar, Admiral Brett Giroir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/cdc-director-maintains-feds-following-science-booster-shot\">said<\/a> the administration\u2019s move gave off the \u201csmell of politics\u201d and \u201cis going to lead to more hesitancy.\u201d City Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/bidens-politicized-vaccine-booster-plan?wallit_nosession=1\">said<\/a>, \u201cNo one should be surprised that the Biden administration recommended boosters at the height of the Delta surge even though scientific evidence was lacking. The administration has a history of politicizing the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the consequences of this announcement are less immediate or visible than in Afghanistan or the Rio Grande, Biden\u2019s loose talk has had significant and deleterious effects. First, the appearance of politicizing the pandemic may cause Americans to question all the government\u2019s pronouncements on COVID-19 and, perhaps, on the efficacy of other vaccinations. Second, confusion leads to hesitancy, which will reduce the overall rate of vaccinations, a self-defeating outcome for the president. And third, giving the impression that the government will impose President Biden\u2019s views on decisions best left to the hard sciences will drive a wedge of mistrust between citizens and their own government, further estranging American citizens from the politicians who are supposed to represent, serve, and protect them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe details are irrelevant\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In what was perhaps an unintentionally revealing moment during his September 2019 NPR interview, Joe Biden brushed off questions about his habit of flubbing or embellishing a number of stories. \u201cThe details are irrelevant in terms of decision-making,\u201d he said. President Biden seems to believe a superior intellect can follow the inherent logic of a situation without firmly grasping many of the relevant details. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/biden-flashback-i-think-i-probably-have-a-much-higher-iq-than-you-do\">another such moment<\/a> in 1988, Biden helped sink his first presidential campaign by telling a voter, \u201cI think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do, I suspect.\u201d That attitude appears to guide all his actions as the 46th \u201cdecider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear America is better off for it.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Months before Democrats cast their first 2020 primary ballot, Joe Biden began highlighting what he believed to be his best selling point: his superior decision-making. \u201cI think my record has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853702","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}