Message to China, Russia, Iran, cartels, and other potential enemies: Repeated verbal stumbles. Repeated phony stories – confabulation. Repeated stumbles on plane stairs. Now Biden falling flat at Air Force Academy. If all this doesn’t send a message of weakness, what would?
And what, exactly, do you suppose weakness evokes? Fear? Respect? Even pity? No, it evokes contempt and aggression. Every kid who encountered a schoolyard bully knows this. But the Ivy League geniuses who run our government apparently do not know it. Regrettably, they are likely to learn, and sooner rather than later. Even more regrettably, the brunt of this lesson will be borne not by the paper-shuffling, pencil-pushing, latte-sipping geniuses, but by the men and women of our military. That’s the way it’s always been.