"Mr. Biden is not a Gold Star father and should stop playing one on TV," William McGurn wrote last week in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal.
McGurn wrote that Beau Biden was stationed in Iraq and worked as a military lawyer. Beau died of brain cancer that the president assumes was caused by exposure to toxic chemicals at burn pits in Iraq.
Biden’s invoking of his late son to support his ruling to withdraw soldiers from Afghanistan was out of place because Beau Biden did not die in combat and was never deployed to the country, according to McGurn.
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"Meantime, the president refuses to acknowledge any hint of failure, much less his own culpability," McGurn wrote in the Journal.
"He has variously denied making any mistakes, claimed he anticipated the entire mess, and wherever possible blamed Donald Trump.
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"He also dodges the hard question by constantly insisting the issue in contention is his decision to leave rather than the deadly hash he’s made of it.
"And he bizarrely keeps invoking his son, the late Maj. Beau Biden, a Delaware Army National Guard lawyer who served honorably in Baghdad and whose early death from brain cancer was tragic but has nothing to do with Afghanistan, much less the 11 Marines, Navy corpsman and Army soldier killed in Thursday’s suicide bombing.
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'Mr. Biden is not a Gold Star father and should stop playing one on TV.' McGurn’s criticism of Biden comes as The New York Times was blasted by Twitter users for a headline which read: ‘Biden, Still Grieving His Son, Finds That Not Everyone Wants to Hear About It.’
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In response to the online criticism, the Times ended up swapping the headline to: "In Invoking Beau, Biden Broaches a Loss That Guided His Presidency."
The Times’ story quotes the father of Lance Cpl. Jared Schmitz, 20, a Marine who was one of 13 killed in a suicide bombing last week in Kabul.
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Schmitz’s father, Mark, told the Times that he spoke to Biden at Dover Air Force Base to observe the dignified transfer of the remains.
According to Mark Schmitz, Biden used Beau in the conversation. Schmitz told the Times that the president’s reference to his late son was "too much" to bear.
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"I respect anybody that lost somebody, but it wasn’t an appropriate time," Schmitz said.
Schmitz said that he was so alienated by Biden that when asked by the Times if he would be open to receiving a phone call from the president, he declined.
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