James Jay Carafano: Biden's Afghanistan disaster shows he's more bystander than world leader, in over his head

James Jay Carafano: President Biden's latest remarks on Afghanistan were pathetic and show he has no sense of history.

But at a time when people in the U.S. and all over the world are rushing to help, Biden is more bystander than world leader. The U.S. president on Friday sounded like the captain of the Titanic, declaring everything is fine and that everyone should go back to their staterooms, while the doomed band played "Nearer my God to Thee," and passengers scrambled for the lifeboats.  So here is where we stand. Biden is 0-for-3. He has fumbled as a decision-maker. He has manufactured a political crisis of confidence. And he has failed as a strategic leader. There are few precedents for the scope of this failure. JFK made a bad call at the Bay of Pigs, but he stepped forward, learned from his mistakes, and was a rock during the Cuban Missile crisis. Reagan endured Iran-Contra, but he was shrewd enough not to let it hamstring his presidency. FDR used the tragedy of Pearl Harbor to show he had the true heart of a leader.