Bwa-hahahahahahahaha. I knew Antony Blinken was an amateur rock musician. I didn't know he did stand-up comedy as well.
Oh, wait ... he's serious. And Blinken's not the only one suggesting that the Joe Biden Regency deserves credit for Israel's victory and Hamas' defeat, even though Blinken and whichever Politburo member handled Biden on which day kept pushing hard for just the opposite (via Twitchy):
Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Gaza peace deal:
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 12, 2025
"It’s good that President Trump adopted and built on the plan the Biden Administration developed."
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Sure enough, the Journ-O-List Bat Signal went out after Blinken's claim. CNN picked it up this morning with the help of Sabrina Singh, a Pentagon spokesperson from the Biden Regency who served during the entirety of the Hamas Atrocities War. Singh told Audie Cornish, with a straight face, that Trump cribbed off the Biden/Blinken plan because Trump's plan had -- wait for it -- "phases."
No, I am not joking:
CNN: The Biden administration, on its way out, tried to get to a deal. It did not. What do you think is the difference here in this moment that put the Trump team ahead?
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) October 13, 2025
Sabrina Singh: The framework that has been put into place... builds on the framework of the Biden… pic.twitter.com/lN1vSVKWbp
SABRINA SINGH, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS COMMENTATOR, FORMER DEPUTY PENTAGON PRESS SECRETARY: Yeah. The framework that has been put into place in this 20-point plan the Trump administration has implemented builds on the framework of the Biden administration.
And, of course, there are a few differences in the plan, but it was a phase one, two, and three approach. First, a ceasefire. Then the second phase was a return of the hostages. And then the third phase was more on the governing and what does governance look like in Gaza.
"A few differences"? The deuce you say. In the first place, Biden and Blinken didn't invent phased ceasefires, no matter what Singh and Blinken want to claim. In the second place, the main difference between Trump's plan and the Blinken/Biden approach is that Hamas had to give up all of the hostages in the first phase, not at the end of the process. And in the third place, unlike Blinken's plan, Hamas didn't get to dictate the terms of the postwar planning.
More to the point, however, Blinken and Biden's plan suffered from one fatal flaw: they wanted Hamas to win and to force Israel into capitulation. Their entire foreign policy in the region consisted of appeasing Iran and forcing the Israelis to accept a two-state solution that left Iran's puppet in charge of Gaza -- and eventually the West Bank, too. Kamala Harris would have pushed that even harder had she won the election rather than Donald Trump. All of them spent year-plus of the war attempting to pander to radical Leftists and the tiny Arab-American demo in Michigan by pressuring Israel into a capitulation during this war. They used arms shipments as leverage in that pursuit, let's not forget, while terrorists literally refused to relinquish Israelis they kidnapped and tortured.
As I wrote this morning, Trump's plan worked only because he first reoriented policy in the region back toward Israel and to oppose Iranian ambitions rather than fund them. Trump took the critical step that neither Biden nor Barack Obama would ever have done -- destroying Iran's nuclear-weapons program and allowing Israel to defenestrate Tehran in twelve days of air supremacy after Iran's missile attacks on Israel. Without that strike and a strong commitment to Israel's security rather than Iran's, this deal would never have worked, regardless of who wrote it up.
As the Biden Regency holdovers and the Protection Racket Media begin to launch their Journ-O-List contrary narrative, Miranda Devine set the record straight:
How pathetic, from this inept failure as Secretary of State, who only got the job because he sucked up to Joe Biden for years and did favors for his crackhead son.
This is the ineffectual toady who sat mute as Chinese officials yelled at him and disrespected America, who covered up his boss's obvious cognitive decline, who simped with Europeans in the hope they would accept him as one of them, who presided over the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, who helped his boss make every conflict in the world worse, who installed his childhood friend from their Parisian school, Robert Malley, as "Iran special envoy" only to see the guy stripped of his security clearance, suspended, and investigated for "mishandling" classified information -- a mystery which still has not been explained.
So, sure, try to take credit for what Trump achieved in eight months after your four years of humiliation on the world stage. No one buys it.
It's been more like twelve years of humiliation on the world stage. Blinken served all eight years in Obama's administration too, first as VP Biden's nat-sec advisor and later as Obama's deputy nat-sec advisor before spending the last two years of Biden's term as deputy Secretary of State. Blinken was part of the original Iran Deal push along with Malley, whose nefarious connections to Hamas first popped up in Obama's presidential campaign in 2007-8.
Blinken has been a blight on American foreign policy for nearly two decades. He and Jake Sullivan botched the Middle East so badly that they both ended up being humiliated, especially Sullivan, who claimed a week before the October 7 atrocities that "the Middle East ... region is quieter than it has been in decades," and credited Biden for that assessment. Like Blinken, Sullivan also afflicted American policy for twelve years in the Obama adminstration and Biden regency, although at least for now, Sullivan has been smart enough to keep his mouth shut. That may be because Congress is taking a sharp look at his role in covering up Biden's cognitive incompetence.
Blinken, Sullivan, and Biden (and his politburo) entirely misunderstood the importance of American engagement in the Middle East. They -- and Obama, who truly ran this policy all twelve years -- see American power as illegitimate, Western culture as an occupationist affront (especially in its incarnation in Israel), and oriented American policy not towards humility but humiliation as some form of atonement for it. They didn't have a plan for victory over Hamas; they had a plan to force Israel to kneel to Iran's encirclement strategy, and this outcome exposes them for the defeatists they have always been.
