Joe Biden Embarrasses Himself and Embarrasses America

In principle, Americans do not speak ill of their country on foreign soil. It’s a venerable principle, respected by all American citizens, but especially by political figures. Not speaking ill about the country means not denouncing the president of the United States.

When foreign leaders see that the nation is divided they understand that they do not need to do business with the current president, especially if his policies are not to their liking. Thus, former Vice President Joe Biden embarrassed himself and embarrassed his country at an international conference in Munich this week. He acted as though the current president was not legitimate. He propped up the weak sisters of Western Europe who crave appeasement toward Iran. And he told them not to deal with President Trump… a man who he disingenuously called an embarrassment.

Biden said:

"The America I see values basic human decency, not snatching children from their parents or turning our back on refugees at our border. Americans know that’s not right,” the former vice president and potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate told the Munich Security Conference. "The American people understand plainly that this makes us an embarrassment. The American people know, overwhelmingly, that it is not right. That it is not who we are."

So, human decency means open borders. He was talking to Angela Merkel, a woman who has basically destroyed her country by allowing in too many unassimilable refugees. How you can mistake security for open borders is beyond me? Other countries, like Israel, have walls and enforce their borders. Does Biden think they are indecent? Is that why the Obama administration propped up Israel's mortal enemy, Iran, and refused to take Israel's side at the United Nations. 

As for embarrassing the country, remember the time when John Kerry, Obama’s Secretary of State went to Paris after Islamists attacked a satirical newspaper and a kosher supermarket, murdering more than a dozen people. Kerry brought a singer named James Taylor with him. He had Taylor sing a song called “You’ve got a friend,” in English, of course. And then he offered hugs to the French president and the American people.

If you want to know what it looks like to embarrass your country, look at the Kerry performance in Paris.

Of course, you can also embarrass yourself and your country when you, a senior political leader, travel to a foreign country and act as though the democratically elected president is not legitimate.

It was in part, as the Wall Street Journal wrote, a question of competing visions. But, more importantly, the article noted, Biden was displaying America's divisions on the world stage. Biden was telling the Western Europeans and the world entire to wait out the Trump administration, not to cooperate with its approach to Iranian sanctions, and to continue the good fight against climate change. If you were wondering why the weak sisters of Western Europe have refused to cooperate with Trump… now you have a good reason why.

What did Biden say? The Journal reports:

Mr. Biden called for fighting climate change and upholding international institutions—both topics well received in Europe—and holding dictators accountable, an apparent reference to allegations that the Trump administration ignores human-rights abuses, such as the slaying of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate in Turkey, for the sake of expediency.

His comments implicitly criticized the Trump administration, which withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement aimed at combating climate change; the Iran nuclear deal; and a trade agreement among Pacific Rim countries. The administration also has threatened to pull out of other international agreements.

Obama might have lost the election, but his spirit lives on. It lives on especially in the lies and distortions offered by a Joe Biden. Speaking of human-rights abuses, Iran is leading the world in such horrors. About that, the Obama administration had nothing to say. It sat on its hands during the Green Revolution. It never called out the mullahs for their homophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism.

In fact, the Obama administration financed Iranian dictatorship and Iranian terrorism. About that, Biden had nothing to say. Biden does not want to fight Iran. He does not see Iran as a threat. He is all in, however, for the war against the climate.

Biden was telling the assembled leaders that the Trump administration was an aberration, an offense to the movement of history. He was telling them to ignore American foreign policy and to wait it out. If this does not undermine American policy, I do not know what would:

“This too shall pass. We will be back. We will be back. Don’t have any doubt about that,” Mr. Biden said 

There's something to dread. One thing it isn't is: patriotic.