How could President Biden not notice his defense secretary was missing?

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2024/01/07/opinion/how-could-president-biden-not-
notice-his-defense-secretary-was-missing/

With US forces under regular attack across the Mideast and the Navy
actively engaged with Houthi forces in the Red Sea, Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin was out of commission in the hospital from Monday on.

Worse, no one told the White House; worse yet, neither President Biden nor
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan noticed.

Not until the Pentagon let Sullivan know on Thursday.

Anyone thinking that the nation is well-led despite Biden’s blatant
feebleness better think again: Austin and his deputies ignored the law
here, while Sullivan was plainly asleep at the switch.

Again, with American forces regularly under fire, and our friends in
Ukraine and Israel fully at war with Russia and Hamas.

Oh, and the public was kept in the dark until Friday.

Meanwhile, Austin’s surprise hospitalization left Deputy Defense Secretary
Kathleen Hicks filling in for days — from her vacation in Puerto Rico.

Biden, 81, returned Tuesday from (another) vacation in the Caribbean, and
presumably focused the rest of the week on preparing for his Friday
campaign speech (again) declaring that our democracy is in danger because
Trump.

All of which apparently left him no time for ringing up his defense
secretary to check on any foreign threats to said democracy.

Sullivan, meanwhile, is a glorified intern who in the days before Hamas’
Oct. 7 atrocities was literally bragging in print about how Biden’s
leadership had made the Middle East safer than ever.

He’s also part of the Biden “brain trust” that still thinks we can make
Iran our friend if we just close our eyes tight enough and come up with
sufficiently large bribes.

So it’s no real surprise that he was utterly clueless about the defense
secretary going AWOL.

We’ve generally been relieved that Austin, an experienced but non-senile
adult, is near the top of the national-security chain of command — even
though he couldn’t talk Biden out of his disastrous plan for bugging out
of Afghanistan.

But his failure (and his staff’s) to alert the guy with the football here
is damning.

And that Biden and Sullivan — heck, the entire National Security Council —
didn’t even notice is beyond damning: It’s proof positive that the safety
of the country, and of US forces now drawing combat pay, is off their
radar for days (at least) at a time.

How can Democrats dare to nominate Biden for a second term now?


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