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President Biden said in what’s likely his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly that he thinks “every day” about the 13 Americans who died in a suicide bombing at Kabul’s airport. https://t.co/w6IdOslYnm pic.twitter.com/atQuT6MZ0Q
— New York Post (@nypost) September 24, 2024
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“He thinks of them only because they are the casualties of his reckless decisions and policies,” Gold Star dad Steve Nikoui told The Post in a text message. “When he says he thinks of them everyday, what he really means is he despises them because they, in his eyes, have tarnished his legacy.”
“That withdrawal, as well as the loss of lives, are the main reason why he is a one-term president,” added Nikoui, whose son Kareem, a Marine Corps lance corporal, was among those murdered by an ISIS-K suicide bomber at the Abbey Gate of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport.
“He has no idea what he’s saying at this point. That speech was written by one of his staff and they are trying to cover Joe Biden for his involvement in the critical debacle of the withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Gold Star father Darin Hoover also told The Post in a text message.
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Blinken choosing to attend the UN for Biden's farewell speech is a slap in the face to Americans, Gold Star families, those who’ve lost their lives, and those who are now horrifically maimed for the rest of their lives because of his poor judgment in the Afghanistan withdrawal.… pic.twitter.com/nlXS9L0Xxx
— Rep. Scott Perry (@RepScottPerry) September 24, 2024
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Joe Biden spoke at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday in what is likely his last big world speech to close out his 50 years in political life.
Unfortunately, he's going out after having left the country in shambles. He's leaving because he was shoved off his reelection bid by his own party, who knew he was going to lose.
His condition was much in evidence as he spoke, despite the fact that he had a teleprompter.
A handler even had to indicate to him where the podium was that he was supposed to speak from.
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NEW: President Biden slurs his way through his UN General Assembly speech, brags about his Afghanistan withdrawal.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 24, 2024
"When I came to office as President, Afghanistan to replace Vietnam as America's longest war, I was determined to end it, and I did."
"It was a hard decision, but… pic.twitter.com/4yU7X9m8f7
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Let’s try to put aside how bogus Biden’s departing shtick is. The truth, which we all know, is that he spent the best part of four years refusing to admit that he was too old to serve effectively as America’s commander-in-chief. He did not finally accept that his time was up, at least not through his own volition. His peers in the Democratic Party pushed him off his re-election campaign only after it became too painfully obvious that he was going to lose.
That’s all by-the-by now. What was more irksome about Biden’s sentimental farewell today is that, for the UN elite, the spectacle of a president professing that he ought not to cling on to power for power’s sake can be taken as an expression of heroic virtue. It ought to be glaringly obvious that leaders should serve their people, not themselves. Yet Biden is now heralded for saying so — as if he were a benign dictator who chose to stand down because of his deep love of country. The actual autocrats in attendance must have enjoyed that.
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As President Biden delivers his final foreign policy address at the UN this morning, every American should be asking—Are we safer than we were four years ago?
— Sen. Dan Sullivan (@SenDanSullivan) September 24, 2024
The answer is unequivocally no. pic.twitter.com/dVZe7Gk9In
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As our diminished commander-in-chief slurred and stumbled his way through his prepared text, allies and enemies alike couldn't help but see the resemblance of a weakened nation.
Most pathetically, Biden had little to say about his fellow citizens held by Hamas' gang of goons in tunnels beneath the rubble of Gaza since October 7.
At least seven Americans are believed to still be in captivity. Three of them may already be dead.
The leader of the free world won't say their names.
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Biden has falsely defined the war as an Israel-Palestine conflict when in reality it boils down to Iran vs. the US-led order.
— John Walters (@john_walters_) September 24, 2024
My Hudson colleague @Doranimated stresses that the solution is to deter Iran, not appease the regime.@axios: https://t.co/ozd4HWIiiK pic.twitter.com/8GQQJtQpXc
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