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Last December, FBI Director Wray told Congress that he had never seen so many threats to the United States in his career. “There were flashing lights everywhere,” he said, referring to a chapter in the 9/11 Commission report called “The System Was Flashing Red.”
Nine months later, marking the 23rd anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks that left 2,977 Americans dead, another attack is just as likely, if not more so.
This is a direct result of the Biden-Harris Administration’s actions and inaction, which have left America less safe at home and in grave danger abroad.
Names inscribed on the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
For example, once the president and vice president took office in 2021, Iranian-backed forces found themselves able to launch attacks with little impunity: Between 2021 and March 2023, Iranian-backed proxies launched “approximately 78” attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria, only receiving three retaliations, according to U.S. Central Command.
Biden-Harris fails to demonstrate leadership, emboldens opponents
Since then, attacks by Iranian proxies on U.S. forces have escalated further, with more than 230 attacks on U.S. personnel in Iraq, Syria and Jordan in 2023 alone, more than any other year under the Trump administration.
The consequences of a similar policy are evident in the Red Sea, where Houthi attacks have not stopped and the oil tanker Sounion is currently leaking oil, causing a serious environmental disaster and raising global energy prices. The situation threatens to worsen, with the Houthi attack on the Sounion potentially causing the largest oil spill from a ship in history.
The Biden-Harris Administration’s policies have provided unprecedented funding to terrorist organizations and Iran, the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism. Despite joint consultations between military leaders and the Cabinet, President Biden and Vice President Harris ordered a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
A Kamala Harris presidency would weaken us in this critical region
The result was the deaths of 13 U.S. soldiers, the return of control of the country to the Taliban and the abandonment of tens of billions of dollars worth of equipment and infrastructure — the first of a record 11 diplomatic facilities to be abandoned by the Biden-Harris administration.
On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we have returned the world’s largest terrorist shrine to those who took it back. To make matters worse, the Biden-Harris Administration continues to fund the terrorist Taliban regime to which Al Qaeda pledges allegiance. As one of the many who participated in the initial response to 9/11, this is especially heartbreaking knowing the price that was paid and knowing that others may be called upon to face the enemy we have equipped.
Now ISIS has resurged in Afghanistan and Africa and is claiming external attacks on Russia and France, Taylor Swift’s European concert tour was abruptly halted due to credible threats, and al-Qaeda leader Saif al-Adl, who fled Kabul after the US invasion of October 2001, is now in Iran as a guest of the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.
Kamala Harris lacks the qualifications necessary to be president
Iran is the biggest beneficiary of the Biden-Harris Administration’s generosity, which has provided the administration with unprecedented access to nearly $100 billion in resources since 2021. This has fueled Iran’s nuclear program, regional terrorism, and assassination attempts against former President Trump and former administration officials who bankrupted Iran and stood up to the threat of the Revolutionary Guards, and has accelerated Iran’s ballistic missile and drone programs.
In April 2021, the Biden-Harris Administration reversed President Trump’s decision to cut funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), ignoring evidence that the agency was supporting Hamas.
The Biden-Harris Administration’s appeasement policy has encouraged Iran and its resistance axis to launch relentless attacks against the interests of the United States, Israel, and partners, which have surged in 2021 and accelerated further since the horrific attacks of October 7, 2023, which left 32 Americans dead, making it the deadliest terrorist attack against the United States since 9/11.
Biden’s moral equivalence between Israel and Palestine will fail again
In January 2024, three US soldiers were killed by Iranian-backed proxy forces in Jordan. Following the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, US forces came under attack in Iraq and Syria, killing seven with no response. The body of American Hersh Goldberg Pollin was recovered on August 31 after his brutal execution by Hamas. Seven Americans remain hostages held by Hamas.
Sadly, that’s not all: The Biden-Harris Administration has systematically dismantled border security, resulting in roughly 12 million illegal immigrants, 1,800 people on terrorist watch lists (that we know about), and 70,000 to 80,000 special interest aliens from dangerous countries entering the country every year.
In May, two people were arrested in connection to a plot to break into Marine Corps Base Quantico. In June, eight Tajiks affiliated with ISIS were detained in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York City. In August, the FBI indicted a Pakistani man for plotting to assassinate a former president and other former US government officials.
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Decades of neglect and the current Administration’s dismantling of global deterrence are an invitation to aggression and catastrophe. The recent Congressional Commission on National Defense Strategy reaffirmed the conclusions of Heritage’s 10th U.S. Military Strength Index, concluding that U.S. military capabilities and capabilities are insufficient to deter and address growing threats to the United States.
Twenty-three years ago, systemic structural problems and the failure to ignore many warning signs led to the worst terrorist attack in American history. Today, we clearly face greater dangers at home and abroad. Yet under the Biden-Harris Administration, the threats we face are being defused, ignored, defunded, and allowed unprecedented access to the U.S. homeland through open borders.
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The Trump administration confronted the threat of ISIS by toppling its caliphate and killing its leaders. He stood up to Tehran, bankrupting its military and eliminating its most capable leader, Qasem Soleimani. He also closed the borders to stop terrorists from entering.
The contrast between the records of the two administrations could not be clearer.
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