From Fox News:
President Biden warned military servicemembers Wednesday that top Pentagon officials consider climate change to be the "greatest threat" to America’s national security in the coming years.
"When I went over to the tank in the Pentagon when I was first was elected vice president with President Obama, the military sat us down and let us know what the greatest threats facing America were, the greatest physical threats," he said. "This is not a joke. You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest physical threat facing America was? Global warming.
"There will be significant population movements, fights over land, millions of people leaving places because they’re literally sinking below the sea in Indonesia, because of the fights over what is arable land anymore," he added.
This is lazy reporting. This is stenography.
A reporter would take note of what Biden said, which was obviously a lie, and would track down members of the Joint Chiefs and other high ranking members of the military when Obama was first elected and ask them if Biden's recollection was correct.
I will guarantee there was not a general or an admiral, or a top official in any of the intelligence agencies, who thought climate issues were a more significant threat to U.S. security than China, Iran, North Korea or Russia.
President Biden warned military servicemembers Wednesday that top Pentagon officials consider climate change to be the "greatest threat" to America’s national security in the coming years.
"When I went over to the tank in the Pentagon when I was first was elected vice president with President Obama, the military sat us down and let us know what the greatest threats facing America were, the greatest physical threats," he said. "This is not a joke. You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest physical threat facing America was? Global warming.
"There will be significant population movements, fights over land, millions of people leaving places because they’re literally sinking below the sea in Indonesia, because of the fights over what is arable land anymore," he added.
This is lazy reporting. This is stenography.
A reporter would take note of what Biden said, which was obviously a lie, and would track down members of the Joint Chiefs and other high ranking members of the military when Obama was first elected and ask them if Biden's recollection was correct.
I will guarantee there was not a general or an admiral, or a top official in any of the intelligence agencies, who thought climate issues were a more significant threat to U.S. security than China, Iran, North Korea or Russia.