Vice President Joe Biden met When he met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing in 2011, the two joked about their ages.

“We were born in the same year,” Wen said during a joint public appearance. “You have been in public service for about 35 years, and I have worked in government buildings in Beijing for almost the same amount of time.”

“What an incredible place,” Biden said of the facility, “and now I understand why you look so much younger than me, even though we were born the same year. You've worked in much more comfortable conditions than I have.”

As this column has noted before, Biden then thanked the Communist leader for helping China finance U.S. debt.

“You have valued your investments in U.S. Treasury securities and I appreciate and welcome your conclusion that the United States is a safe haven,” Biden told Trump.

According to the Treasury Department, on that day, August 19, 2011, the federal debt was about $14.639 trillion. As of last weekend, it was about $34.944 trillion. That's an increase of $20.305 trillion, or 138 percent.

History will record that Biden himself oversaw a massive increase in the debt, which as of last Friday had increased by about $7.1923 trillion during his term.

That's probably not the only negative aspect of Biden's performance.

Biden chose Sept. 11, 2021, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, as the deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan.

“President Joe Biden … formally announced that he will withdraw 2,500 U.S. troops from the country between May 1 and September 11, the 20th anniversary of the war,” the Pentagon said in a statement. report April 14, 2021.

“I believed that our presence in Afghanistan should be focused on the reason we went to Afghanistan in the first place: making sure that Afghanistan is not used again as a base to attack our country,” Biden said in a speech that day.

And he said, “We're not going to rush to the exits. We're going to do it responsibly, carefully and safely.”

About two weeks before President Biden's 9/11 withdrawal deadline, an ISIS-K suicide bomber attacked outside Kabul airport, killing 13 U.S. troops. The Pentagon reported that the bomber “was among thousands of ISIS-K members released by the Taliban from two detention facilities in mid-August 2021.”

Does Biden's withdrawal leave an Afghanistan free of terrorists who might try to attack the US in the future?

“ISIS-K and its allies maintain safe havens in Afghanistan and continue to expand their networks both at home and abroad,” said Gen. Michael Kurilla, commander of U.S. Central Command. Said Before the Senate Armed Services Committee in March.

What about Al Qaeda?

“Although Al Qaeda has been weakened, it still has safe havens in Afghanistan and Yemen,” Kurilla said, as previously noted in this column.

Additionally, the number of “inadmissible” Afghans being apprehended attempting to cross the southwest border has also soared. As this column has previously noted, the inspector general's report found that Border Patrol had encountered 932 “inadmissible” Afghans through March 5 of this fiscal year. (Related article: Terence P. Jeffrey: Surge in 'inadmissible' Afghans attempting to cross southern border is truly alarming)

According to data released by Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol agents did not encounter a single person on the terrorist watch list attempting to sneak across the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry in fiscal year 2019, after encountering 93 so far this fiscal year.

Senator Joe Biden, appearing on “Meet the Press” in 2007, acknowledged that human life begins at conception, but spoke of it as a religious principle, not a scientific one.

“Do you believe that life begins at conception?” host Tim Russert asked him.

“I'm open to the church's view. I think this is a difficult issue,” Biden said. “It's a very difficult decision for me. But the viability — the ability to survive outside the womb — is going to be clear in the relatively near future, and I have no doubt about it.”

“Are you still against public funding of abortion?” Russert asked him.

“I still oppose public funding of abortion,” he said.

“I promise you that if the American people send us a Congress that supports the right to choose, we will restore Roe v. Wade to the law of the land,” Biden said in his State of the Union address this year.

After the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Biden administration's Department of Defense announced a policy that would “pay for military members to travel to obtain abortion care,” as NPR reported.

“But the Biden Pentagon's abortion travel policy would require taxpayers to cover the travel costs for service members and their dependents to travel to receive an abortion for any reason up until the moment of birth,” Rep. Chris Smith, D-New Jersey, said in a speech on the House floor.

In other words, Biden believes life begins at conception and that the government should force taxpayers to help fund the ending of that life.

Biden will leave office after one term, but decades from now history will remember him for the massive debt he accumulated, his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the border he failed to protect, and the innocent lives destroyed by his policies.

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