“Ihave been doing this for a long time. I never thought that I would see, have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children,” said a nonplussed U.S. President Joe Biden of reports from the horrific Hamas attacks on Israel. Spokesmen later clarified that Biden had not seen the pictures in question, but numerous media outlets have confirmed these atrocities and, in some cases, reprinted the photos.
At best, Biden sounded naïve, particularly in the wider context of his administration’s catastrophic foreign policy. In many ways, it was his poor leadership in this area that allowed the current crisis to unfold.
