The stealth edits that prove Biden’s Middle East failure
Conn Carroll
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Just eight days before Hamas invaded Israel, killing, raping, and beheading defenseless civilians before taking babies, women, and children hostage, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan claimed, “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”
Sullivan has since been proven entirely wrong, not that he would ever admit that. Pressed to explain why his assessment was “so far off the mark,” Sullivan noted that he also said that “challenges remain,” including “Iran” and “tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians.”
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But if Iran was such a challenge, then why did Biden end sanctions on Iranian oil production as soon as he assumed office, and why did he agree to exchange hostages with them this summer?
The reality is that Biden’s appeasement of Iran from the beginning of his administration emboldened the mullahs and directly led to Hamas’s attack on Israel this month.
And if you don’t believe that, just look at the stealth edits Sullivan was forced to make in a Foreign Affairs article he wrote that went to press before the Hamas attacks.
In the print version, flagged by Tablet magazine’s Jeremy Stern, Sullivan bragged that “we have de-escalated crises in Gaza and restored direct diplomacy between the parties after years of its absence.”
That sentence is now gone in the online version.
Sullivan also claimed that “U.S. troops were under regular attack in Iraq and Syria. … Such attacks, at least for now, have largely stopped.”
That sentence is now gone in the online version.
Sullivan also wrote that “we have enhanced deterrence, combined with diplomacy, to discourage further [Iranian] aggression.”
That sentence is now gone in the online version.
“The region is quieter than it has been for decades. The progress is fragile, to be sure. But it is also not an accident,” Sullivan continued. “[Biden’s] approach returns discipline to U.S. policy. It emphasizes deterring aggression, de-escalating conflicts, and integrating the region.”
Those sentences are now gone in the online version.
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Sullivan was forced to erase all these claims because the Hamas attack exposed all of them as the frauds they were.
Hopefully, Sullivan will be forced to exit government service soon too.