Hillary Clinton: “A strong military is essential for the ultimate protection of our country and our interests.”

It’s not (just) incompetence. It’s also corruption,

I have no confidence that Hamas is in any way reformed or, you know, ready to look for a better future for the people of Gaza or the Palestinians as a whole.

To make it clear that there must be a ceasefire. There will be no exchange of territory. And that, over a period of time, Putin should be actually withdrawing from the territory he's seized in order to demonstrate his good-faith efforts…

So, I think it was a terrible miscalculation on the part of President Biden.