The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy,
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President Joe Biden recently took a trip to southeast Asia, ostensibly to promote lines of diplomatic communications and to begin discussing potential trade issues.
Biden, as did each of his predecessors for the past 50 years, failed to demand discussions of the only number which should ever concern a United States President:
As of June 9, 2023, the number of Americans missing and unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War was 1,579: 1,238 in Vietnam, 285 in Laos, 48 in Cambodia, and 7 in the People’s Republic of China’s territorial waters.
Ever the hypocrite, Biden makes the grand gesture of ending his nonsensical ramblings with the comment “may God protect our troops.”
When the opportunity to take action on that prayer, he chose to go silent. As noted, every president has failed in securing a full account of our American heroes. Given Biden’s conduct regarding his cowardly retreat from Afghanistan at the cost of 13 active military personnel, his silence on the POW/MIA issue is particularly painful. When the coffins of the 13 returned, Biden checked his watch and told grieving families he understood their pain given he lost his son who served in Iraq. Sadly, Beau Biden died from cancer, but not from war-incurred wounds, and his family was able to say goodbye. The families of the 13 had no chance for such farewells, and were met by a president who had other things to do.
Biden’s disdain and contempt for our military is evident, and a bell that cannot be un-rung.
It IS heartening to see that the public’s view has changed for the positive. People who see an active duty or veteran will reach out and thank them for their service.
It would be nice if the commander-in-chief shared that respect.
When the Vietnam veterans first returned, they were spat upon, given no parades, and ignored by the political class as undesirables. As time marches on, we are quickly losing our veterans to age and declining health.
Joe Biden must offer the vets a salute and demand in the name of each and every hero who has not yet come home a full accounting of those still lost.
Americans must demand that not a single cent go to any country harboring the remains of our warriors.
Failure to do so will cause us, and deservedly so, national pain and shame.
American citizenship demands no less.
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