By refusing to provide F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, President Joe Biden yet again is imitating then-President Lyndon Johnson’s tragic tactics in Southeast Asia six decades ago: He’s doing just enough to fail to win.
Biden told ABC’s David Muir Friday that the U.S. won’t send the jets because “we’re sending him [only] what our seasoned military thinks he needs now” and that “there is no basis upon which there is a rationale according to our military now to provide F-16s.”This is sickeningly familiar. At various times in the past year, Biden has refused to provide Ukraine with Patriot missile defenses, HIMAR missiles, and Abrams tanks, only to later change his mind and send them.
This is the same sort of asininity Johnson used in Vietnam by attempting to oh-so-carefully calibrate how much military assistance South Vietnam needed to defend itself without needlessly antagonizing the Soviet Union and China. The foolishness was two-fold: China and the Soviets, just like the Russians today, were, of course, antagonized already, while the calibrations treated war almost as a matter of accounting rather than as a life-or-death struggle.
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