By Dave Patterson
There is a new metric for a small increment of time. Forget the nanosecond. The new measure is the minuscule unit of time between President Joe Biden saying something of questionable veracity and a White House spin master hitting the airwaves for clean-up.
So it was when national security spokesman John Kirby tried to smooth out the mess Biden made in the aftermath of the Iranian air assault on Israel. America’s chief executive told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the Jewish nation, having just escaped a catastrophic onslaught of 170 attack drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 110 ballistic missiles, should take it as a win and not retaliate. Biden’s policy of appeasing Iran has created a permissive environment that has emboldened Tehran to believe it can do whatever it cares to without consequences.
Nonetheless, Kirby inexplicably told Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday:
“It’s hard to look at what President Biden has done with respect to Iran and say he hasn’t been tough on Iran, we haven’t put pressure on them …........