In our age of hyperpartisan politics, it’s easy to forget that the president of the United States is also the commander in chief of our armed forces. The media forgets it; the politicians forget it; the academics forget it; and the American people forget it.
Those who don’t forget it are our adversaries. Be they China, Russia, terrorists or the drug cartels with their own armies and advanced weapons systems.
As we have seen of late, the world seems to be tilting more unstable and dangerous by the week. Be it the barbaric attack by Hamas upon Israel, the nuclear weapons programs of Iran and North Korea, the drug cartels’ growing strength or the war in Ukraine, which some (myself included) fear could trigger World War III. Escalation of any or all would make our petty and partisan differences look foolish in the flash of the unthinkable.
In the midst of all that, our adversaries realize that the commander in chief of the armed forces of the United States is President Joe Biden. Some of those enemies will view an 81-year-old man with perceived cognitive issues as a net plus for their plans to destabilize the U.S. and other parts of the world.
These enemies —........