If nobody's home, who called out the Syria airstrike? This was puzzling, given that there seemed to be no immediate threat
American Thinker ^ | 02/26/2021 | Monica Showalter
Posted on 2/26/2021, 10:02:16 Seven weeks into his presidency, senile Joe Biden surprised many by calling in a Syria airstrike.
Which was puzzling, given that there seemed to be no immediate threat. And that's just for starters.
It was billed as a strike on pro-Iran militants stationed in the region, and in retaliation for an earlier strike of theirs against a U.S. installation. Which seems a little eyebrow-raising, given Biden's eagerness to make nice with the mullahs. Even that explanation has skeptics who call the whole thing laughable.
There are also those who think Biden is finishing up what President Obama started. You know, for the legacy thing. Favor to a pal.
What's vivid, though, is that questions are being raised about whether Joe really made the call.
First, note that his vice president, Kamala Harris, was kept out of the loop. According to a report citing a White House official, she's said to be steaming that nobody told her before it happened. And she's probably more steamed to learn that that news got out, advertising for everyone that her giggly round-heeled self is viewed, even in the Biden White House, as a lightweight.
But we already knew that.
What's also news is that on more than one occasion, she's publicly opposed attacking Syria. Here's her famous tweet everyone's retweeting, exposing her supposed (in this case) hypocrisy:
So, @PressSec @jrpsaki questioned the legitimacy of US strikes on Syria. @VP @KamalaHarris said the legal rationale is bunk. Still waiting for my reporter colleagues to ask...
https://t.co/I8B8um6Cgk pic.twitter.com/LZ4qvISepA — Adam Kredo (@Kredo0) February 26, 2021
But there's reason to think that to the extent that she thinks about such things, she's against them Here's her November statement to an Arab news outlet,
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