The recent terrorist attacks on innocent children, women, and men have been nothing short of disgusting. A music festival turned into a killing field, with babies beheaded, bodies paraded around like trophies, and women and children thrown into the back of trucks and kidnapped. These heinous acts of war have brought the world face-to-face with pure evil.
In this time of sorrow, solidarity, and strong resolve, America stands with Israel. However, it is not enough for President Biden to condemn these despicable attacks now that they have taken place. Our commander-in-chief needs to stop making massive policy misjudgments that embolden our enemies, alienate our allies, and make these horrible attacks more likely.
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President Biden's term has been a disaster for our security, our vital interests, and our allies, particularly in the Middle East. The president's humiliating surrender in Afghanistan cost 13 servicemembers their lives and damaged our nation's credibility and deterrence. It sent a signal to terrorists that this administration will allow the United States to be outfought, outsmarted, and outlasted. Additionally, President Biden's blunder just before Putin invaded Ukraine, downplaying the seriousness of a potential incursion, was a massive mistake.
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Time after time, the Biden administration has revealed a lack of backbone, and bad actors around the world have smelled blood in the water. It is not just hesitation or incompetence; it is a series of systematic mistakes based on a backward worldview.
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During his previous tenure as part of the Obama administration, President Biden and then-President Obama sent pallets of cash to Iran, rewarding Tehran for supporting terrorism and pursuing nuclear weapons. Republicans warned that Iran's terrorist proxies, including Hamas, would benefit from this windfall. However, the political left was so eager to cozy up to Iran that they didn't care if Israel's enemies lined their pockets.
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Even more recently, President Biden has taken every opportunity to create distance between the United States and Israel. He has meddled in Israel's domestic politics and made Prime Minister Netanyahu practically beg for a White House invitation that should have been automatic. Just a few weeks ago, President Biden unfroze $6 billion more for Iran, providing fungible money for a terrorist-funding state. Iran's president has already declared that the regime will spend the funds however they please.
Even after the stomach-churning attacks on Israel, the Biden administration's blunders have continued. Both the administration's newly established Office of Palestinian Affairs and Secretary of State Blinken made online postings that tried to tie our ally's hands by demanding a premature ceasefire. Both posts were deleted after facing backlash.
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It is embarrassing and absurd that President Biden held a staff picnic at the White House while Hamas held American citizens hostage. It is unacceptable that he ended his public workday at lunchtime on Monday amid this crisis.
What we need is a tough, capable, full-time commander-in-chief who is loyal to our allies, lethal to our adversaries, and understands that the road to peace runs through American strength.
As president, I will bring back a Middle East policy that treats our friends like friends and enemies like enemies. I will stop desperately chasing bad deals with Iran and instead strengthen and extend our sanctions. I will shut off the funding that Joe Biden restarted to the UN's irredeemably flawed Palestinian aid programs because the best investment we can make in peace and stability is backing Israel 100 percent. I will rebuild and reinvest in American military dominance so that the arsenal of freedom is fully stocked for ourselves and our allies. And I will put terrorists across the world on notice with one simple policy: If you take an American life, it is guaranteed to cost you yours.
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However, while we watch this devastation fueled in part by President Biden's retreat from peace through strength, Republicans must not make the same mistakes. We cannot afford to have a Joe Biden wing on foreign policy. As President Reagan once said, "Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the United States was too strong."
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The American people are not in decline, and neither is American courage and values. We are simply stuck with a weak president who is in retreat. All we need to do is turn around.
I am running for president to stop the Biden retreat, restore peace through strength, and double down on American power. Only a strong and confident America will be positioned to help our friends in Israel say, "never again."
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