President Joe Biden took to the White House podium Sunday to make his administration’s first official statement on the happenings in Syria in a tumultuous week that has seen dictator Bashar al-Assad driven from power.
This statement is best understood as the parting shot of a failed, lame-duck president trying to carve out a legacy for himself. It is deeply dishonest on many points, but this is Biden, so the dishonesty is baked in.
Biden tries to take credit for Russia, Hezbollah, and Iran being unable to pull Assad’s chestnuts out of the fire; he says, “Because all three of them are far weaker today than they were when I took office, and let’s remember why.”
Of course, we remember why. Hamas attacked Israel. Against the advice of the White House, Israel undertook a systematic operation to root Hamas…
