liar, liar, pants on fire;

Reading Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s latest essay in Foreign Affairs was a lot like listening to the famous “Joe Isuzu” auto ads almost 40 years ago. Joe would make the most outrageous statements about a car, followed by the declaration “he’s lying.” In an article entitled “America’s Strategy of Renewal,” Blinken made a similar series of unbelievable statements. Only the “he’s lying,” was missing.

Nearly four years into the Biden presidency, declared Blinken, “President Biden and Vice President Harris pursued a strategy of renewal, pairing historic investments in competitiveness at home with an intensive diplomatic campaign to revitalize partnerships abroad.” 

Indeed, that understates the president’s influence, at least according to the president. Attempting to justify his abysmal performance in his debate against Donald Trump, Biden insisted: “Not only am I campaigning, but I'm running the world. Not—and that's not hi—sounds like hyperbole, but we are the essential nation of the world.”

That the president believed the results of his policy warranted praise demonstrated his mental decline. Blinken’s enthusiastic embrace of the results, claiming the U.S. to be “in a much stronger geopolitical position today than it was four years ago,” is less excusable, a desperate attempt to preserve what little remains of his reputation. After all, who can look at the world today and imagine the American people saying to Blinken, “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things.” (Matthew 25:23)............more.........