Op-Ed: Al Zawahiri's Death is a Victory for Americans, But a Failure for Joe Biden
American Thinker | August 4, 2022
Things are going so poorly for the Biden administration that the CIA had to carry out a drone strike to kill a terrorist -- not just any terrorist, the terrorist. Ayman al Zawahiri was the most wanted terrorist; an al Qaida leader who was not only one of the masterminds behind the September 11th attacks, which killed more than 3,000 innocent Americans, but who was Osama bin Laden’s number two.
According to CNN, the drone strike that killed Zawahari on his balcony in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan was “the product of months of highly secret planning by Biden and a tight circle of his senior advisers.”
While the execution of al Zawahari is certainly a victory, it’s also a clear and desperate effort by the Biden administration to give Biden a victory. But the execution of one mass murderer doesn’t erase Biden’s failures -- past, present, or future.
The irony of the Biden administration’s successful execution of an al Qaida leader is that it highlights the failures of the Biden administration.
Exactly one year ago, in August of 2021, Biden defended his hasty, chaotic, and irresponsible withdrawal from Afghanistan: “What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point, with al Qaida gone? We went to Afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al Qaida in Afghanistan as well as -- as well as -- getting Osama bin Laden. And we did.”
However, one year ago, in retaliation for the murder of 13 American service members, the Pentagon carried out a drone strike that left 10 innocent Afghans, including seven children dead. The Pentagon lied, saying they’d killed two high-level ISIS-K planners. That drone strike also took place in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul.
I don’t recall reports from the propagandist media back then of Biden’s intimate involvement with that drone strike, or the media’s efforts to paint Biden as cautious and concerned with potential civilian casualties.
The Biden administration’s latest ‘victory’ is nothing more than a desperate effort to rebrand Biden as a capable and energized leader. But Biden himself undermined that very narrative when he attempted to claim victory on Monday.
Biden appeared more feeble and unprepared than ever before as he read the victory speech some staffer wrote for him. He repeatedly touched his face and looked confused. As Biden struggled and slurred, it seemed evident that he was hearing the words written for him for the first time as they tumbled out of his mouth.
A speech that should have rallied a nation was delivered with zero enthusiasm. Biden was dull and robotic. He turned a celebration into a funeral, a brilliant firework display into a mundane and forgettable moment more akin to watching the paint dry on the wall.
While al Zawahari’s execution was a victory for Americans, it was yet another failure for the Biden administration. The most wanted terrorist may be dead, but so is our economy, thirteen of our service members, and ten innocent Afghan civilians. Joe Biden is responsible for that, too.
Published at The American Thinker.