There are plenty of largely dangerous issues that President Joe Biden can justly take credit score for, however the fall of Syria isn’t certainly one of them. The solely actual cause this occurred is as a result of Israel threw off the shackles and determined to go after Hezbollah after a 12 months of terror. And Biden did every part to stop that.
At the very finish, he used an arms embargo to drive Israel right into a pretend “ceasefire” with Hezbollah. But by then Israel had executed sufficient harm to Hezbollah that Turkey’s Jihadists had been capable of simply roll into Syria, and Iran determined to promote them out and pull again.
But now Biden is attempting to take credit score.
Biden delivered a mumbling teleprompter speech that regarded like an Arab Spring leftover, calling it “a second of historic alternative for the long-suffering individuals of Syria to construct a greater future for his or her proud nation,” and promised that “the United States will work with our companions and the stakeholders in Syria to assist them seize a chance to handle the chance.”
And promised extra “humanitarian aid.”
Mostly, although, Joe tried to take credit score.
“You know, for years, the primary backers of Assad have been Iran, Hezbollah, and Russia. But over the past week, their help collapsed — all three of them — as a result of all three of them are far weaker at this time than they had been once I took workplace,” Biden mumbled. “The upshot for all that is, for the primary time ever, neither Russia nor Iran nor Hezbollah may defend this abhorrent regime in Syria. And it is a direct results of the blows that Ukraine, Israel have delivered upon their very own self-defense with unflagging help of the United States.”
Ukraine definitely had the help of the administration. And that contributed to Assad’s fall. But Israel didn’t have the administration’s help. And it was Israel’s marketing campaign towards Hezbollah that the majority instantly led to this second.
Biden supplied Iran with sanctions aid and bailed out Hezbollah simply because it was on the verge of defeat. He’s attempting to take credit score for different individuals’s victories whereas pretending that this was a desired final result, relatively than Turkey taking the initiative and exploiting a weakened Hezbollah.
Biden will get no credit score right here for something besides attempting to avoid wasting Hezbollah. And due to this fact, by extension, Assad.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow on the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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