Deluded Biden, blind to his foreign failures, leaves Trump a world in flames

Departing President Joe Biden offered a farewell brag last week to his State Department about how his tenure had improved America’s stature abroad. In his now accustomed weird mix of whispering and fiery shouting, Biden apparently felt he had to lie or mislead about almost every one of his “achievements.”Yet to the extent that anything improved abroad on his watch — the weakening of Iran or the near destruction of Hamas and Hezbollah — it was despite, not because of, Biden.Biden, bowing to election-year political pressure, did all he could to restrain and block Israeli retaliations to the Oct.7 massacres. Only after he was repeatedly proven wrong does he now shamelessly take credit for what Israel ironically achieved by ignoring his own threats directed at Israel.Biden is correct only that Iran is “weaker than it’s been in decades.” But Tehran was aided, not hurt, by Biden’s nonstop efforts to lift sanctions, to allow Iran to make billions in oil revenues, to pay the theocracy billions of dollars in hostage ransom, and to beg the mullahs to reenter the ill-starred Iran deal. Everything Biden did made it much harder for Israel to survive.So, Iran is now weakened only because Israel ignored Biden’s nonstop ankle-biting and finger-shaking not to retaliate to Iranian aggression. Instead, the Netanyahu government systematically destroyed Iranian air defenses after killing most of Iran’s foreign terrorist operatives.Biden referenced the end of the Assad regime in Syria, but it imploded not due to any effort of his.

It was overwhelmed instead only after the Israeli decimation of Hezbollah and humiliation of Iran — coupled with the election victory of Donald Trump — that encouraged Assad’s enemies to attack a suddenly isolated and weakened regime.Biden is also took credit for word that Hamas might release its hostages, who have been held in a subterranean labyrinth since Oct.7, 2023.But why, with less than a week left in his tenure, did Bi...