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Recently Joe Biden warned us that “standing up for our values is not without costs.” But what values is Biden talking about when he says that?
Joe Biden’s terrible and inexcusable missteps caused him to seek ways that take the spotlight off his administration’s many grotesque failures. These failures make America vulnerable to chaos occurring worldwide.
The war between Russia and Ukraine will significantly accelerate more economic pain (inflation, shortages, “supply-chain” disruptions, etc.). Biden would like to “soften us up” for some economic “hard blows” we will endure in the coming days and months. Using manipulation tactics and talking points about “our values,”
Biden hopes to coalesce national pride and a team spirit amid real economic pain and uncertainty. He reminds Americans, “standing up for our values is not without costs.” His statement totally sidesteps questions like, “What are our values?” And “Is Joe Biden helping or hindering standing up for our values?”
People from all over the world still come to America to embrace America’s commitment to “liberty and justice for all.” Viewed through the lens of collective zeal for liberty, however, government-mandated vaccine policies and mandatory masking certainly do not comport with “our values.” Yet, Biden continues these onerous mandates despite growing scientific evidence showing they are far more damaging than helpful.
America’s collective desire for liberty and justice extends to national sovereignty and border policies. But open and marginally secured borders encouraging illegal migration fosters neither liberty nor justice either for Americans or those who are human/sex trafficked. Weak border policies also dramatically accelerate drug and weapon trafficking. Needless to say, these policies don’t comport with “our values” either. So, what exactly does Joe mean by “our values?”
Recent polling confirms Americans believe “our values” include protecting national sovereignty via our borders, something that should come before going around the world to protect other nations’ borders. It’s hard to fathom, but Biden is more zealous about protecting Ukraine’s sovereignty (including sending U.S. border agents to help protect Ukrainian borders), instead of protecting the sovereignty and security of America’s borders. Americans want to see a strong commitment to safeguarding sovereignty and “democracy” at home before becoming the world’s police and champions of “democracy” elsewhere. Get our own house in order first—that reflects the core of “our values!”
We also see energy independence as an essential American value. Biden’s policies significantly limiting oil and gas drilling in America have weakened us and made us unnecessarily vulnerable to America’s foes. Importing energy from nefarious nation-states seeking to undermine America’s liberty—that isn’t one of “our values.” Policies that produce energy independence to meet the demands of a vibrant economy while providing lower fuel costs are “our values!” Biden seems purposely blind to and ignorant about this American value, instead, embracing irrationality and imprudence.
Image: Joe Biden (edited). YouTube screengrab.
Notably, “our values” also demand safety in civil society. Escalating crimes encouraged by “no bail reforms” and by “defunding” law enforcement agencies create chaotic and unsafe communities. These policies are not “our values!”
Safe streets and communities where children can play without threat are quintessential American traditions and values. Yet, Biden’s “soft on crime” initiatives (bolstered by his political party and supporters) have turned American streets and neighborhoods into wholly unsafe battle zones. With Biden policies demonstrating leniency and partiality toward criminals—ignoring law-abiding citizens’ safety concerns—America doesn’t stand for “liberty and justice for all.”
Ironically, Joe Biden has an excellent opportunity to confirm “our values.” If he’s sincere, he will focus on immediate policies like securing U.S. national sovereignty (via borders). He would do this before securing the borders of aligned partners in foreign lands.
He would also immediately focus on halting the escalating cartel activities that rob us of fundamental decency via human/sex/drug/weapon trafficking. With the “stroke of a pen” Biden would also advance American values by immediately reinitiating all drilling permits so America can once again become energy independent (as we were when he became President). Lastly, he would make sure his supporters and political party renounce and denounce the “no bail” and “defund police” movements. These policy moves would all reflect “our values.”
Americans aren’t stupid. It doesn’t work to use insincere pablum to supposedly “soften the blow” of impending economic chaos and to encourage collective teamwork to get through it when there is no genuine, principled desire to stand for our real values.
We must stand for American values, including sovereign national borders, energy independence, and safe communities. But unfortunately, Biden’s policies reveal these are not his values. His statement made clear that his values will indeed come with a very high “cost.” But Americans collectively paying high (and altogether preventable) costs is not an acceptable answer when the “values” aren’t ours. Biden must abandon his destructive policies and embrace real American values.
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The Biden Doctrine abandons America’s
common welfare
All the president’s woes stem from the Biden Doctrine. Whether we are speaking of a lack of deterrence in Ukraine, a potential loss of that country to Russia, the failure to control the border, or soaring crime in the inner cities, at the bottom of it all is the philosophy behind the Biden Doctrine.
So, what is it? Last April, President Biden laid down the doctrine during his Arlington Cemetery Address:
How many more generations of America’s daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghans? How many more lives — American lives — is it worth? How many endless rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery?
Biden doubled down during his State of the Union address, saying, “Let me be clear, our forces are not engaged and will not engage in conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine.”
This reveals the essence of the Biden Doctrine. In its general form, the doctrine holds that the rights and interests of the individual must supersede that of the group.
Insecurity policy, for example, the Doctrine prioritizes the fate of individual soldiers over for national interest. This is a liberal perspective that discounts the national welfare as a whole, and it serves both socialist and libertarian agendas.
The libertarian side considers the military to be hierarchical and oppressive by nature and, once the fighting starts, even volunteer soldiers are being asked to make unreasonable commitments; that is, potentially paying with their lives. The socialist view accepts not only this premise but that soldiers will tend to come from a politically powerless poor or middle class, with the rich and well-educated exhorting their social inferiors to a war that they themselves would not fight. From the socialist perspective, war is patriarchal, capitalist exploitation of the vulnerable classes.
If liberalism is about the rights of the individual, conservatism is about the rights of the group (as I regularly note). For the group to survive, some of its members must be delegated to its protection and, in doing so, put their lives on the line. This may be voluntary but, historically, armies are conscripted. National interest calls for the group to coerce some of its members, principally fighting-age men, to defend the country.
Nowhere is the conflict between liberal and conservative ideologies more acute than in this arena. Ordering soldiers to a conflict is profoundly illiberal, in that individuals are conscripted to fight and possibly die while the rest of society may hardly notice. Such has been the case in every US conflict since the Civil War: soldiers fought and died while civilian life went on, since World War II, essentially undisturbed.
This creates understandable rancor in those forced to fight and for families seeing their boys put in harm’s way. As one irate reader wrote to me:
When are you leaving? Will you go fight and lay down your life for Ukraine and NATO? As long as someone else’s neck is on the line, got it. Take a hike.
These are hard words, deeply felt. Nevertheless, limiting policy discussions to those who are directly involved in fighting is unworkable. The Washington political and defense establishment would be entirely unable to dispatch soldiers. Joe Biden would have to don a flak jacket and man the Kyiv barricades before weighing in on NATO strategy. Such a requirement would create paralysis and equate to unilateral disarmament as a practical matter.
Image: Joe Biden (edited). YouTube screengrab.
And yet, that is exactly what the Biden administration has done. It has unilaterally disarmed the United States. That is the Biden Doctrine, the same sentiment as my reader above: that the individual lives of US military personnel should take absolute precedence over national security interests. We will not fight if our soldiers could be hurt.
Those rulers bent on conquest, notably Russia’s President Putin and Chinese President Xi, will interpret the Biden Doctrine as a green light for an invasion to the extent that ex-post sanctions look like an acceptable price to pay. The math worked for President Putin. The Biden Doctrine has proven itself unable to deter invasion and provides no military remedy once the conflict has started, as is the situation in Ukraine today.
Even worse, the Doctrine has not only encouraged President Putin to start a European war but also to threaten nuclear strikes. A focus on preventing battlefield deaths at all costs leaves the US vulnerable to nuclear extortion. Nuclear threats make sense when the opponent is easy to intimidate, and the Biden Doctrine is pre-emptive self-intimidation. Unfortunately, such threats involve placing nuclear forces on alert — as President Putin has – thereby materially increasing the risk of nuclear war.
Biden’s policy has proved an unqualified disaster, both at home and in Ukraine. Until the president changes tack, Russia and China will continue to test our resolve in ever-escalating confrontations.
To avert catastrophe, the president must abandon the Biden Doctrine.
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