A half week after the U.S. government used fighter jets firing Sidewinder missiles to shoot down three “objects” over North America—an event with no precedent—and more than a week after the destruction of a large Chinese spy balloon, it’s obvious the Biden White House isn’t going to tell the American people what this is all about.
On Tuesday, the White House’s national-security spokesman,
John Kirby
said the Alaska, Yukon and Lake Huron shootdowns really were about protecting civilian air traffic, notwithstanding that nothing like this fantastic statistical anomaly has happened in the days since.
There was a time when silence like this from the government on national-security-related events was accepted as routine. We are past that. Someone better level soon about these shootdowns because, at the moment, Silent
is melting down the government’s credibility with the American people to about zero. And that’s dangerous.
Across the entire postwar period, through the Cold War’s nuclear standoff with the Soviet Union up to now, the U.S. national-security community’s first instinct has been to protect sources and methods of intelligence gathering. With notable exceptions, this informal policy operates with the assent of Congress, the Washington press and former government officials on the assumption it serves the interests of agreed-on national-security goals.
Other than “keep Americans safe,” as Mr. Kirby said Tuesday, what exactly is our national-security goal now amid active threats from
Xi Jinping’s
China,
Russia and the mullahs’ nuclearizing Iran? Containment? Accommodation? Can’t we all just get along?
This president won’t say. On Monday the White House’s national security office announced a new airborne-objects study group comprising the Pentagon, Federal Aviation Administration, which reports to Transportation Secretary
Pete Buttigieg
(currently foxholing from the Ohio rail disaster), and Homeland Security Department, run by
Alejandro Mayorkas,
the least credible official in the executive branch.
For help finding our way out of the Biden fog machine we turn to
George W. Bush’s
plain-speaking…
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