And now, the awareness gap

President Biden sat down for an interview with PBS’s Judy Woodruff yesterday. Students of ancient history may recall the “credibility gap” whose power was deemed to have brought down a president or two. I would like to seize on Pentagon bureaucratese to declare that we have an “awareness gap” in the Biden administration from the top down. In one of the video clips of Woodruff’s interview with Biden below, the president shows no awareness of a proper response to the exposure of the Chinese spy balloon last week. …

Biden was obviously misleading about that, as becomes evident within a few seconds. He does not seem to be aware that some more compelling response than his own somnolence is called for. What we have coming into plain view here is the credibility gap superimposed on the awareness gap. It should be a lethal combination.

[Biden has had an awareness gap for his entire political career. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates once said that Biden had been wrong on every major foreign policy issue in the last forty years. It’s not limited to foreign policy. — Ed]