Biden Veers Off Script
on Taiwan. It’s Not the
First Time.
Maybe President Biden isn’t speaking off script after all. Maybe he just doesn’t think much of the script.
Offhand remarks that vary from the official talking points have become a feature, not a bug, of the Biden presidency, as he demonstrated again on Monday when he dispensed with decades of “strategic ambiguity” and indicated that he would militarily defend Taiwan against attack by China.
Each time he says what he really thinks, there is the ritual cleanup brigade dispatched by the White House to pretend that he did not really say what he clearly articulated — or that even if he did, it did not really amount to a change in policy. But then Mr. Biden, unperturbed and unapologetic, goes out and does it all over again.
Let's go with that, then: he's speaking his true mind. How many wars does the motherfucker want? Russia, China, hey Joey, there's still room for North Korea! Was he speaking his true thoughts when he said repeatedly during the campaign--and in office--that he wanted to end foreign wars? This isn't Chinatown, U.S.A. he's talking about (he does know that, right?), it's real China. He threatens war with the People's Republic of China? Was he speaking his true mind when he said repeatedly in the run-up to the Russian war on Ukraine that his absolute-absolute was to avoid a war with Russia? How about a few weeks later when he said Putin cannot remain in power?
